Much ado about nothing
Have you heard the hoopla over the new bowl-selection process that the Atlantic Coast Conference is implementing effective this season?
You'd think that they'd have finally gone and made it so that teams were selected based on their finish in the conference standings - with all the attention the new system is getting.
Don't be fooled - bowls can still reward schools that, ahem, travel well, as long as they're not more than a game behind a not-so-well-traveling team in the final accounting.
So Boston College, which was famously banished to Boise last year after finishing 5-3 in the conference and second in the Atlantic Division, could still end up getting the short end of the stick.
Virginia also comes to mind as a school with a reputation of not traveling well - as if that kind of thing should matter a fig.
Isn't sports supposed to be about winning and losing on the field - that's one question that comes to mind for me.
Oh, wait - I forgot. This is Division I-A college football.
It's not about the games. It's about selling beer.
- Chris Graham