More Will Be Revealed…

Another College Football Saturday in the books, and we now at least know some conference champions and which teams are in next week’s Conference Championship Games.

But not much more.

ACC – Boston College vs Virginia Tech, winner likely to the Orange Bowl.

Big East – Cincinatti is the champ, likely to face ACC winner.

SEC – Florida vs Alabama for the conference title, the winner will be in the Final.

Big 12 – This is a total abortion. Oklahoma will face Missouri for the conference tile and likely move into the Final with a win. The Sooners get the rightful nod over Texas Tech , who they walloped last week, but screw Texas , who beat them earlier in the year but lost to the Red Raiders… The Longhorns will still get an at large bid to a BCS bowl, but will be playing for third at best. This pretty much sucks for them, no one had a harder stretch than the 4 consecutive weeks in which they beat then #1 Oklahoma, Missouri, and Oklahoma State, then got edged on the College Football Play O’ the Year by Texas Tech. Mark Texas down as prime Exhibit A for a team that should have a shot at a national title, and doesn’t. Unless Oklahoma loses…

Big 10 – Penn State drags Joe PA’s old bones out to the Pasadena sunshine for the Rose Bowl.

Pac 10 – USC sits rightly at the top, and will face Penn State in the Granddaddy of them all. They may still have an outside shot at the National Championship Game after snuff-filming Charlie Weis’ boys, rankings, but it’s about as likely as the Detroit Lions winning a game this season. Exhibit B, deserves a chance to compete for the national title, but won’t get it.

Here’s what we should be looking at , in a seeded playoff scenario:

Alabama (12-0)

Texas (11-1)

Oklahoma (11-1)

Florida (11-1)

USC (10-1 with a gimme against UCLA next week)

Utah 12-0

Penn State 11-1

Texas Tech (11-1) or Boise State (12-0)

I’m counting unhatched chickens with USC, but this game is unfortunately a mortal lock.

Sorry, Bruins fans. Tech might actually get bounced from the Top 8 based on yesterday’s lackluster win over Baylor. I rather doubt it, but they did lose All World WR Michael Crabtree, which would be a knockout blow to any real title aspirations if he’s gone for any amount of time. I can’t diss Boise State here, never forget what they did to the mighty Sooners a couple years ago.

Teams with a shot at Big Money Bowls that truly don’t deserve it:

Boston College (9-3), Va Tech (8-4), Cincinatti (10-2 and already in). Boise State and Ball State, 2 little 12-0 schools that could dearly use the cash, are going to be denied. I'm not saying both these teams, possibly even one of them, should be in the mythical NCAA playoff , but they certainly would be better choices than the 3 above mentioned "Champs". At least pair the two of them up for the title of “Best Undefeated Team That Took It Without Lube”. The biggest joke is Mizzou (9-3), who can spin the wheel if they pull off a huge upset against Oklahoma. The Tigers are the 5^th best team in their own conference, and have no business even sniffing the jack.

But that’s our wacky Bowl System! It truly sucks, and not in a good way...