Without too much fluff, my annual look at what the big bowls would look like if 1990 rules were still in effect.
ROSE BOWL: OHIO STATE vs USC. The traditional matchup actually provides a pretty good test for the putative #1 team.
ORANGE BOWL: OKLAHOMA vs WEST VIRGINIA. A great matchup that keeps the old Big-8 flavor in Miami.
SUGAR BOWL: LSU vs HAWAII. I had to make this match for agricultural reasons.
COTTON BOWL: KANSAS vs ARIZONA STATE. Not much to say about this one.
FIESTA BOWL: VIRGINIA TECH vs GEORGIA. This is a barnburner waiting to happen.
Random? Maybe. Solves anything? Probably not. Any more illogical and arbitrary than the BCS? Not in the slightest.
As always, look me in the eye and tell me college football is better off with the BCS than it was 15 years ago.
As long as we don’t have to play Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl, I’ll accept the outcome of whatever we get. It’s just not a fair game for us if we have to play them — win 128-0 and everyone expected us to. Lose and we’re the laughing stock of the country.
I don’t think we any more right to claim we should be playing for the national championship than say Oklahoma or LSU, but we’re one of the top two teams in teh country right now — that’s something I’m sure of.