Bowl Fiasco

This is not one of my favorite times of the year, with the exception that I am off for a month. Let's be clear about something; while fans are attracted to the idea and the idiosyncracy of the bowl season, it is terrible to see teams like the Cal Golden Bears have an opportunity at 6-6 to revamp their season and compete in any bowl after finishing 1-6 (despite beating Air Force).

At one point, wasn't their a standard of excellence necessary to earn a spot for a coveted bowl. For one, I cannot remember a time when a three-loss team, such as the Illinois squad, competed for the Rose Bowl and was ranked number 13. How about the moment a squad such as the University of Florida was as highly ranked as number nine in the BCS when there were two loss teams better than the one the Gators posed. Too much Tim Tebow hyping and not enough of a magnifying glass was placed on Tigers on the prowl (who spanked Darren McFadden and the Razorbacks).

How about earning a bowl bid period. There used to be a method of determining how 6-6 clubs did not make any ground and were left out of all bowls. Should six and six clubs...such as Colorado and Alabama be rewarded for a postseason when the two clubs never experienced excellent results this year?

There was a point where the new chairman of the BCS declared that as soon as the current contract with the BCS was finished in 2011, there was a possibility to re-consider all the options of having a plus-one system or a playoff format. Hey, Illinois is going to wind up in the bottom half of the top twenty-five with four regular season losses. I recall the way running back Rashard Mendenhall was cruising up and down the field against the Syracuse Orange and how Juice Williams squeezed the life out of S-U...but here's the problem...the team was defeated by Missouri on the road and upset Ohio State in Columbus. Since the rules for the BCS system state no more than two teams can represent the ten available spots for the bowl games, it was down to a select few for the Rose Bowl

The rule automatically eliminated the University of Florida because Georgia and LSU were there from the SEC. Missouri was stricken from the competition as a result of the conquests made by Kansas and Oklahoma in the Big12 (in which leaving Missouri out appeared to be egregious).

College football's bowl committee was left with an inopportune and brutal decision; put Illinois in a traditionally renowned Pac-10 versus Big-Ten matchup in the Rose Bowl or go with another club (possibly Boston College or Clemson) at numbers 14 and 15 respectively?

The rule is bogus...but if one goes by the standards set by the committee, then Illinois (by default) would be the team that poses the greatest challenge to USC's Rose Bowl hopes...in spite of what happened

All in all, scrap the bowl system...it stinks...it puts colleges on a pedestal that they won't be able to attain...and rewards medocrity. Do you think players USC, Miami or LSU would devote themselves 100 percent to a bowl which one of those teams was 6-6 and the opponent was as well?