The Big 12 South

So yesterday saw the latest BCS poll come out. If you are unfamiliar with this, it is the system that is used in college football to determine who will play for the national championship in early January. It is comprised of three different sets of rankings: the Harris Poll, the Coaches Poll and a set of computer rankings. These are all added together and the final numbers are what they use to rank the teams in order from 1-25. The top 2 then play in the National Championship game in January. This is how major college football works out what school wins it all.

This year the BCS was used to help determine something else before the final game will be decided. See we have one weekend of regular season college football to go. This week we have a conference championship games to play in at least three major conferences: the SEC, the ACC and the Big 12. In the Big 12, the BCS rankings were used to determine who would be representing the South division against Missouri from the North. There were three teams in the South that all had the same record, and all lost to each other: Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech. By using the BCS rankings, Oklahoma is who will be representing the South.

It's messed up to me. Oklahoma lost to Texas. Texas lost to Texas Tech. Texas Tech lost to Oklahoma. This past weekend was when the South representative was determined. Oklahoma beat oklahoma State. They now get to play Missouri for the Big 12 title. The problem that I see with this is that Texas beat all three of these teams leading up to this. To be honest the whole thing is one big convoluted mess. The fifth tiebreaker was the BCS. In other conferences that have a championship game, if they have the same situation they take the two highest ranked of the three with the same record and they then go with the head to head result. That is then who is used to represent that part of the conference.

Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems like a much better system to use to determine who will be in the title game if there is a question like this. This way things are really settled on the field and the games really matter in the end. Just a thought. Peace and Love y'all.