While that IS the case in wrestling, it's not even close to being the case in college football. Well, I-A football really (I-AA has a clue and playoffs).
Apparently you don't even have to beat the best team in the nation to be considered "the best team in the nation."
The old rule of thumb actually used to be that the defending national champion was the #1 team in the country until they lost. Last I looked, USC hasn't lost in 29 games, that's about 2 and 1/2 years. So, if the Trojans haven't lost, then how can they not be the #1 team in the country? Because of the fucking (yeah, I said it) BCS.
Time and time again, the BCS has showed that it is a flawed system. Now, not every system is perfect; but come on! A computerized system that evaluates everything up to, and quite possibly the players' weight at birth; and we can't get it to work? Every year they claim there will be adjustments made. And there are. And every year there's something that goes wrong. Maybe it's an underdog or non-BCS school that comes in and runs the table. Or just too many undefeated teams that should be playing each other for the National Championship but aren't.
Either way, there's only one way to get a true National Champion: playoffs.
But that will never happen in I-A football. You know why? Money. And freakin' huge amounts of it. There's just too much to be made by the bowl games, schools, sponsors and on and on. So, due to greediness; you'll never see a true national champion in I-A. Hell, sometimes you don't even see the undefeated, defending National Champion as the #1 team in the country.
But that'll probably change by next week. And I'll have to wait and bitch about the BCS for another few weeks until something else happens.
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yes.
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