As an avid football fan — Go Mizzou! Go Mizzou! — I’ve been fairly happy with this season’s college bowl games so far. I was especially pleased by the Cotton Bowl yesterday. (Can you guess who our family was cheering for?) I honestly thought Arkansas had more offense than that, but I was wrong there.
I was discouraged when Boise State University lost their game. They lost it literally in the last second on a game-winning field goal by East Carolina as the clock expired. Oh, well. My two happiest years of college were spent there in the 1960s, and my wife was in their first 4-year graduating class in 1967, so they hold a special place in our hearts.
But the real DUD of a bowl game this year will be the Bowl Championship Series finale between LSU and Ohio State — what a terrible selection. Ohio State played one less game than the other first-place contenders — and lost two games. What kind of season is that for a so-called “championship contender”?
You see the problem here? I tend to forget that top-level college football really isn’t a sport anymore (if it ever was) — it’s a huge money machine; it’s a big business. Why else would the so-called “system” come up with two big-school, big-money powerhouses facing off every season for the championship, even when they had less-than-stellar to mediocre seasons?
Ah, well, what do I know? I’m just a guy who reads the papers.
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