Said that perfectly, and i might shed a tear because playing Iowa would be an easily won ship…who wouldnt want that as a gator? And i think that this year is a prime example of why there needs to be Playoffs in college football. We could call it Janurary Jubilee haha

I personally don’t have that much problem with the current BCS setup, even though a pack of half-starved hyenas might make a better polling/ranking system. But that’s really an opinion thing and there’s no need to be worried about it.

I will say, however, that the current BCS setup is probably the worst of all possible scenarios for the Big Ten. Without a conference championship game, they don’t have that final opportunity to bump the resume of their conference champ, which particularly hurts in the computers. And without the round-robin format of the PAC-10 and MWC, the Big 10 doesn’t have the ability to define a clear champ, which particularly hurts in the human polls (where votes are more prone to be split amongst conference equals).

OSU has made it to the final game recently only because there was nobody within conference who could challenge them, and teams in other conferences (i.e. USC) screwed up along the way. But in any given year, between a one-loss USC (or Oregon now), a one-loss Big Ten champ, or a one-loss SEC champ, the Big Ten champ is the most likely to be left out of the picture.

I don’t have any real animosity toward the Big Ten. They’re fun to cheer against, sure, but it’s only for entertainment purposes for me. However, if you’re going to design a system that has some arbitrary judgments in place (as all postseason systems do), it’s always considered good sportsmanship to pick a system that hurts your own interests equally or more than any others. And that’s what Delaney has done.

What a guy. ;-)