Okay, here I am, excited and ready to see another blast at Ohio State! I mean, how old does Ohio State have to go public, until it is finally admitted that it is one of the most overrated teams in college football? So I admit I’m not a Buckeye fan, nor a Big 10 fan, and as a fan of a non-BCS (WAC) conference, I’m tired of being told over and over again what a great team Ohio State is. And then witnessing that once they come out of their conference and play a good team, they are exposed. The last 2 bowl games were embarrassing for them and then the USC beating earlier this season upset me and at the same time excited me that we were going to witness it again last night at the Fiesta Bowl. I watched the game with high expectations from the Texas Longhorns, the team that many said should be No. 1 and play the national title game on Thursday.

Wow I was disappointed! The first Texas series resulted in no first downs and a punt and my son, Aaron, tells me, “Dad, it’s normal for a team to start slow,” which I agreed to. Then at the end of the first quarter, with Ohio State leading by a field goal (3-0), I was really beginning to wonder where this highly respected Texas team was. I mean, this couldn’t be the same team that beat Oklahoma and played what I consider to be the best game of the season, against Texas Tech, could it? This couldn’t be the same team with Colt McCoy, Heisman runner-up!

Then the second quarter comes and goes and finds them down by 3 (6-3) at halftime and I emailed one of my friends saying “Sorry to say Texas is being bombed right now.” What a disappointment! I mean, Ohio State’s Wells was running all over Texas’s praised defense and making them look like anything but a # 1-caliber team.

Then comes the third quarter and Texas finally comes to life and I started to get excited that they were finally going to defeat the Buckeyes! They scored 2 unanswered touchdowns and were up by 11 points (17-6) Yes! But, unfortunately, my excitement did not last long. In the fourth quarter, Ohio State scored an unanswered field goal and 2 touchdowns, the only silver on the lining was that they missed both of their 2-point conversion attempts, so they were only up by 4 (21-17). Then with 2 minutes remaining on the clock, Texas comes to life and strides onto the field, earning a controversial 4th down conversion and scoring a touchdown with 16 seconds remaining on the clock, bringing the final score to 24-21. . Although it was an exciting ending to the game, what a disappointment it was! With the exception of the third quarter, Ohio State dominated the entire game and totally abused the Longhorns! This is the same state of Ohio that lost to Penn State that lost to USC in the Rose Bowl, in a much more exciting bowling game, I must add. My only consolation in all of this is that the Big 10 finish 1-6 in bowling this year. I know the WAC was 1-4, but we’re supposed to be that bad, right? The Big 10 is a BCS conference and therefore superior!

Texas, YOU ARE NOT A # 1 TEAM! Utah would hit you! My team, the Boise State Broncos, would be with you and they would probably beat you! Florida would destroy you and USC would crush you! After the game, Coach Brown made an astonishing statement, after the reporter pressed it over and over again. He said Texas could beat any team in the country. How funny! Now if Oklahoma beats Florida in the national title game, I’ll have to reconsider most of what I just said.

Notice that I said the majority. I watched the Sugar Bowl last Friday. Utah roughed up the SEC # 2 team and beat them at neutral ground, which can realistically be called a home field for Alabama, by a wider margin than Florida beat them at home. So Texas beats Oklahoma, Florida beats Alabama at home, Utah beats Alabama by a wider margin on the road. What does this all mean? It means the BCS is full of shit when they try to tell us that these teams are the best of the best.

Anyone who watches college football knows that any team on any given day (Appalachian State vs. Michigan) can win. I’m a bowling fan and love this time of year, but with each game like Utah vs Pitt (2005), Boise State vs Oklahoma (2007), Utah vs Alabama (2009) and finally Texas vs Ohio State (2009) more and more more people are realizing that BCS is a buggy system and the only real answer is a PLAYOFF. Unfortunately for us, we are not the ones making these decisions.

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