TO BE THORN IN BCS' SIDE NEBRASKA OVER MIAMI WOULD SERVE BCS RIGHT.Byline: STEVE DILBECK Root for chaos. Root for questions without answers, geeks who won't show their faces. Root for Nebraska to beat Miami. It's just the perfect ending. A script too bewildering be·wil·der tr.v. be·wil·dered, be·wil·der·ing, be·wil·ders 1. To confuse or befuddle, especially with numerous conflicting situations, objects, or statements. See Synonyms at puzzle. 2. even for the mind of David Lynch to imagine. The climax the season needs, nay, demands. A victory by the Cornhuskers in tonight's Rose Bowl game would leave Nebraska, Oregon and Miami all with one loss. It would turn the national championship into a sports kindergarten fire drill. There will be no agreement, only a fitting, turbulent finale to the college football season. And, one can only hope, an anemic Bowl Championship Series left on life support. What could be sweeter? The BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. , the system designed to create a national champion without having playoffs, will undoubtedly survive in some morphed form for next season, but it will be weaker than aspirin after a New Year's Eve binge. Cries for a playoff will intensify, which right now is clearly what we need. At best, the BCS was a nice idea that didn't pan out. At worst, ridiculously conceived and laughingly executed. Three initials that deserve nitro nitro abbreviation of nitrogen. Usually taken to indicate the presence of an -NO2 radical. nitro-chalk a fertilizer in the form of lime or chalk mixed with ammonium nitrate. . A Nebraska win is justice. It's victory for farmers everywhere, not to mention something that exudes a hint of equity for determining a college football champion. The BCS has proved a failure. Last year, Miami had one loss and beat Florida State, yet it was the Seminoles the BCS system picked to play Oklahoma for the national championship. This year, Oregon was second in both the AP and coaches polls, yet Nebraska got all kinds of who-knows-what-they-really-are bonus points in the computer rankings, and ended up ranked No. 2 in the BCS and with the Rose Bowl invite. The BCS even had Colorado - which had two losses - ranked ahead of Oregon. This would be the Oregon team that just crushed Colorado, 38-16, Tuesday in the Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006. . Life has enough mysteries without offering us the BCS. Things like mold, HMOs, Gary Sheffield
Gary Antonian Sheffield (born November 18, 1968 in Tampa, Florida) is a Major League Baseball designated hitter and outfielder for the Detroit Tigers. . The BCS was designed to clear things up and leave us a less-biased system that annually matched two teams for the national championship. At least it got the concept of a national championship game right. We'll take it as one small step forward. A Miami victory, however likely, is so mundane. It does nothing to shake the system!off, to rattle the hoi polloi and bring down the BCS. Because I'll bet I'll Bet was an NBC game show that aired from March 29 1965 to September 24 1965, that was created by Ralph Andrews. The host of this program was Jack Narz. It was a precursor of It's Your Bet, which aired with four different hosts during its four year run: Hal March, Tom my personally autographed 8x10 Jennifer Connelly glossy - which I am sure is coming any day now - that if Nebraska does upset Miami, the writers will select Oregon No. 1 in the AP poll. The coaches are committed to voting the winner of the BCS game as their national champion. The AP writers are under no such obligation. Unless Nebraska wins convincingly and simply forces the issue, you just know the rebel writers will take this opportunity to snub the BCS, further the current controversy, and, consequentially, bring it down and lead to a national playoff. A four-team playoff system, naturally, will have its own controversy and dispute, but at least we will likely be arguing about who should have been the fourth team invited and not the second. ``Even with playoffs, there would be concerns,'' said Miami coach Larry Coker Larry Coker (born June 23, 1948 in Okemah, Oklahoma) is the former head coach at the University of Miami from 2001 to 2006. He was fired by the University of Miami on November 24, 2006 following a 6-loss season. He is currently a television analyst for ESPNU. . ``This is the system we're under, and we knew that at the beginning of the season. If there are concerns that are legitimate, then they will need to be looked at and changes possibly made.'' No doubt, they'll tweak To make minor adjustments in an electronic system or in a software program in order to improve performance. See calibrate. 1. tweak - To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. those BCS computers - just as they did after last season's disaster - in the coming months. Only adjustment isn't what is needed, but demolition. We need BCS followed by R.I.P. Drastic change and the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association are found together about as frequently as gentility and Mike Tyson Noun 1. Mike Tyson - United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (born in 1966) Michael Gerald Tyson, Tyson , but a Nebraska victory and split-championship are true momentum. Another powerful factor looming in the background is television. Bowl game ratings with the current system are headed the wrong way, and a playoff series would no doubt attract big viewership (read: big advertising revenue). Last year, Oklahoma won the BCS game and was left the only unbeaten team standing, curbing some of the controversy. We don't need Miami to pull off the same thing this year, we need a blow to the midsection mid·sec·tion n. A middle section, especially the midriff of the body. . Coker said he only knows that if the Hurricanes lose they won't be picked national champions and sidestepped picking between Nebraska and Oregon. ``I really don't have an opinion on the matter,'' he said. ``But I do know last year we would have been very receptive to Florida State beating Oklahoma.'' We're receptive to the Cornhuskers - who've had to endure enough nasty good-ol'-boy jokes from all you sophisticated city types to last the life span of a redwood - finding their own vindication VINDICATION, civil law. The claim made to property by the owner of it. 1 Bell's Com. 281, 5th ed. See Revendication. with a victory, and leaving the BCS on its derriere. It would be such beautiful chaos, how can you not root for it? CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Miami fan Kevin Psosie, 10, at top, cheers during a rally at a shopping mall in downtown Pasadena on Wednesday. Above, Nebraska fans Mechele Burry burry said of wool when it contains plant burrs, the adherent seed pods, usually of Medicago polymorpha. , left, and Jodi Tolan put their hands in wet cement at University CityWalk. Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Michael Owen
(3) Nebraska fan Seth Fuller, left, and his brother, Wes, a Miami backer, check out Fan Fest at the Rose Bowl on Wednesday. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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