Co-National Champions

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As most of us that follow college football know, Thursday is the day of the "official" BCS Championship game... determined by polls, computers, and pontificators alike.  And as in every season since the "championship game" has been in place, two teams that may or may not be the real champion are playing for that Mythical National Championship (MNC) trophy.

To put this in perspective, imagine if our political system still played out like this, and the party bosses and "smoke-filled rooms" picked candidates as they did back in the early days of our country's politics:  
  • Most likely, we would have been picking between Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton
  • Sarah Palin would still only be known to her fans in Alaska... do you think Mitt (or Guiliani, the other "party boss" favorite) would have risked to pick her?
  • I'm sure we'd all still be disallusioned (Well, that goes without saying... :) )
Not at all what we picked... or would have picked.

But that's college football.  It is the system we have... 

So, please to the AP pollsters that rejected the BCS (for good reason), please do the world a favor and pick a co-champion... namely the only undefeated team in America that will have no chance to win in "the system" but proved in New Orleans by dominating Alabama that they deserve this trophy.  Give it to Utah!!!!  

Regardless of who wins on Thursday, Utah has a case.  It's called 13-0.  It's called dominating Alabama.  It's called the Mountain West is stronger than the ACC and the Big East (come on, that Cincy-VT bowl was a joke!).  It's called "is the Big XII south as strong as we thought it was?" after Texas had to perform a miracle to beat Ohio State (also from a weak conference this year) and Texas Tech got smoked by Ole Miss (ranked #25).  So, to this "Non-BCS conference" thing... politics doesn't make a team better... kicking tail on the field does. 

Give the co-championship to Utah... please... and put another nail into the BCS coffin!!!

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