If you have heard me talk on the air or read anything that I have written, you can tell that I am a passionate person who has a love for sports. The one thing though that I am most passionate about now is the BCS system. It is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, fraud in sports. It allows people who in some cases have never played football to decide who should play for the national title. I could sit here and throw out example after example about how bad the BCS is, but everybody is aware of the problems. The thing that bothers me the most is that it takes away a player’s chance at a national title just because someone wants to make a buck. That is so unfair for the players. Unless you have played college football you do not fully understand what a physical and mental strain it is to play the game.

You can’t tell me that it is fair to leave out undefeated teams and not give them a chance to earn the title just because they play in a non-BCS conference. Every team who goes undefeated deserves a shot and so do other teams with successful seasons. I think there should be a 16-team playoff, but that’s for another blog. The BCS bowl games are the only ones that matter. These other bowls are just a joke.

Yes, the bowl games give another game to the seniors, which is good, but in the big picture they mean nothing. The biggest argument for the bowls is that they still give schools a lot of money, which is the whole problem! Everything is about money in the world today and it’s completely ludicrous! You are cheating athletes out of a chance to play for something that they deserve and have given their blood, sweat and tears to earn.

As for these other bowls, they are pointless except for fans getting to see some teams play each other that normally wouldn’t. They mean nothing since now it seems that just about every team goes to one.

Now about Clemson and South Carolina. First off, I have to say that both teams had better seasons than I thought they would, but both are going to meaningless bowl games.

South Carolina fans, I didn’t think you were going to make it to a bowl toward the end of the season.  But you beat Clemson and are now going to the PapaJohns.com bowl. Granted, it is not a very well known bowl, but it is still a bowl.

Clemson fans, I have more issues with you because I get so tired of hearing the crying and whining. The first problem is that you didn’t win the ACC championship, which caused you all of these bowl problems. If you had taken care of business when you were supposed to you wouldn’t have these problems now. So quit crying that you ended up at the Music City Bowl. I don’t want to hear that it is worse than the Gator Bowl or the Chick-fil-A Bowl. 

Who decides which bowl is better than another? I would really like to know. Those bowls are all at the same level because they mean nothing. If you don’t make it to a BCS bowl game, it is truly meaningless.     It is just another game on the schedule.

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