Dance, dance, little sister (of the poor) dance

Read the article, see the sign. If you think the statement Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee made dissing the Texas Christian University’s legitimacy in Bowl Championship Series play was absurd, then you will laugh at the poetic justice. It’s enough for the Little Sisters of the Poor to break out the Rolling Stone’s 1974 LP (like a CD only vinyl and smaller, kids!) “It’s Only Rock and Roll” and play “Dance Little Sister.”

One still has to wonder: What if? Had things worked out differently for Oregon and Auburn. What if TCU had been the only top ranked BCS school to go undefeated? There would have been a good chance the Horned Frogs would not have played for the Tostitos National Championship Game Monday evening in Glendale, Ariz. even if they were alone the undefeated. How much of a travesty would that have been? Probably, just as much a travesty as the  BCS itself.

Of course, we the football viewing public would not have been treated to 75 mostly meaningless bowl games like the Maxipad El Perro Bowl or the Preparation H Mosquito Bowl. Money, that’s what I want. Or rather, that is what the BCS powers that be want.

A college football playoff system for Division I schools as is done for smaller schools would make too much sense. It would make the fans, most likely, happier in the end. It could still make tons of money. You could still have the Ex Lax Tomato Bowl and all the others.

Division I college football should be saved from itself.