Indeed, as is typical for Jan. 2 , I will lament the fact that I must be at work. No matter that yesterday I was “allowed” the pleasure of a Thursday hiatus, just close enough to Saturday to completely distort my segue into the weekend. Now it’s Friday, but not a REAL Friday…enter stage right: Rod Serling….key theme music….you get the picture…i am at work.
The New Year has kicked off in grand fashion; let’s begin with the politicking that will (un)necessarily start the absolute demise of college football’s BCS systematics. Of course the BCS garnered a stable of detractors from its inception – you can guarantee that the USC win of yesterday will start BCS toppling talk en masse. Or at least this is the catalytic theory. Most fans of the football americano were too afraid to tackle the BCS logic at first. The semaphoric mass of mathematics behind the ratings deflected all but those with the grit to deeply inspect the intricacies (NOT I said me…football is for gambling and alcohol consumption, chiefly, not for numerical mind-numbing).
But now, as with so many systems, the mighty BCS has fallen. The Sugar Bowl will be all but a meaningless formality, no Championship mystique this time ’round.
For a university having a split National Title is probably like the histrionics of the 2000 presidential election – “No we REALLY are the champs, we WON the pollsters top vote…NO we are the TRUE Champs, the NUMBERS are the inviolate absolute….” ….ad infinitum….
Yes, it’s going to be a long day……where is tennis when i need It???????
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