From The Onion:
COLUMBUS, OH?In what many BCS officials are citing as “proof that their flawless system indeed works,” no Division 1-A college football team was found to possess the sheer excellence required to face Ohio State, the No. 1 ranked team since the season began, in this year’s BCS Championship game.
“The main job of the BCS is to place the best football players in the nation in a single game in order to decide the national champion,” said BCS chairman Mike Coleman. “This year, our computer took hours to process the polls’ relevant data?by which I mean the opinions of the nation’s finest sportscasters, sports-radio hosts, coaches, color commentators, and ESPN The Magazine contributors?and determined that no championship game is necessary. No team in America deserves to even step on the same field as Ohio State, let alone actually play in a game against them.”
Even Michigan agrees:
“My guys were disappointed at first, but they eventually understood,” said Michigan coach Lloyd Carr. “We had our chance against Ohio State and we blew it, and I guess a rematch would be boring. But can you blame us for thinking we had a chance? Sure, Troy Smith is easily the best player ever, and that defense, well, quite frankly, I’d be afraid for our guys’ safety if we had to go up against that defense again, but our fans are rabidly single-minded and a lot of them have poll votes.”
And Fox has come up with alternate programming:
The Fox network has announced that in place of the game on January 8, it will broadcast four hours of Buckeye players working out in preparation for the 2007 NFL draft.
Heh.
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Satire aside, a Michigan v poisonous nut rematch would have been a second classic and Game of the Century and TV ratings might have been the largest in college football history.
If the BCS was in charge of boxing, no Ali-Frazier clasics would be allowed because Ali had his shot. What ever happeneded to that Ali guy?