MORE BCS BASHING by Tannen

Here's something brand new. A guy who does a show like SportsTalk dropping more of a hammer on the BCS. First, let's re-establish a key fact. The BCS was formed for one simple reason and contrary to popular belief it's not to aggravate we college football fans. It's to spit out a #1 versus #2 for the national championship, period. One of my issues has surfaced in a huge way during the post season. You can not properly evaluate strength of schedule and which conference is the toughest accurately during the regular season especially with the patsies many teams play. The consensus was the Big 12 is the best league in 2009. Get this! Of those quality teams(Oklahoma, Ok State, Texas and Tech)there were exactly 2 out of conference games scheduled against teams from BCS conferences. The Sooners played at Washington while Oklahoma State took on Washington State. Granted, when these games were scheduled the Dawgs and Cougs weren't laughingstocks, but for 2009 it was a joke. Oklahoma at least squared off with a decent MWC team, TCU. Otherwise you had Chattanooga, Eastern Washington, SMU, UMass, Florida Atlantic, Rice, Missouri State, Troy and Houston. The top guns in the Pac 10 had teams like Ohio State, Penn State, Boise State, Michigan State, Maryland, and Utah on the schedule. By the time we gather for SportsTalk next week, we can make a proper determination about which conferences were truly difficult to navigate in 2008.