76-Second Travel Show: ‘Saving College Football, from Fort Worth’

Episode #011
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TCU WINS COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP!

If you didn’t know, the USA’s favorite sport isn’t baseball. It’s football. American football. And it’s taken very seriously. The writer Hunter S Thompson actually shot himself amidst the ennui just after football season ended in 2005. The title of his suicide note? ‘Football Season is Over.’ And Barack Obama, early in his days as president, addressed a serious issue: the lack of a playoff system in college football.

Now, the 76-Second Travel Show (SSTS) is getting involved.

Presently a BCS ranking system sets up which of 119 college teams get to play in the cul-de-sac championship game at the end of the year. Considering seasons last 12 or 13 games, with no playoffs, it is mathematically speaking the most irrational sports league in the world.

Sure, bickering about it can be fun. But too often some undefeated teams can only look on — like Penn State in 1994, Auburn in 2004, Boise State in 2007, Utah in 2008 — as other undefeated teams deemed more worthy, per a complex and controversial human/computer ranking system that smacks of gymnastics judges, play for the coveted (yet butt ugly) Sears crystal trophy.

This week we’ll find out who plays for this championship title in Pasadena on January 8. Mostly likely it’ll be this Saturday’s Florida/Alabama winner versus Texas. No real surprise. And that’s the problem. Looking at the six remaining undefeated teams (right), we see a clear separation line between ‘tradition’ teams and ‘newby’ programs, the latter working off disadvantageous pre-season ranking (see blue numbers), while the big kids getting favoring ones.

That’s not exactly fair.

SSTS proposes a new let-love-rule SSTS system.
No bowls. No playoffs. And NO pre-season rankings. Just bring back tie games and adopt England’s Premiership model, where wins gets three points and ties one. All teams would have to play an equal number of games. In case of matching end-of-season records, first compare home/away/neutral site records (Alabama and Florida played four away games each, Texas five, TCU seven!), then the quality of opponents.

The SSTS rankings, then, would look like this:

  1. TCU
  2. Cincinnati
  3. Alabama
  4. Florida
  5. Boise State
  6. Texas

–> Thus, the SSTS names TCU (Texas Christian University) as the SSTS Season Champion. And to tribute the Horned Frogs‘ championship, we visited its hometown: Fort Worth, Texas.

Another option, I guess, is eight-team playoffs.

It’s worth noting that the founders of TCU moved from the original location in Fort Worth in the 1870s because of all the whores and booze. Then moved back when things ‘calmed down a bit.’

About Robert Reid

Robert Reid is a travel writer (Lonely Planet, New York Times, ESPN), travel expert (Today Show, CNN's Headline News), travel videographer (76-Second Travel Show) and travel artist (don't ask).
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