Final Thoughts for College Football

Alright, so it's a little late, but some final thoughts on the Bowl Season, up to this point:

• I'm very, very glad Texas woke up and decided to play the second half Monday night. I was not looking forward to the 'I told you so, you buch of no good cry-babies' articles if the Horns lost to Ohio State.



• As for the Big XII, not a great showing overall from the upper-echilon. Lackluster performances from Texas and Mizzou, and losses by Okie State and Tech.



• How great was it to see Tech get it handed to them though? Seriously, they're nowhere near the same team when playing away from Lubbock.



• So remind me again why Oklahoma should be rewarded so much for beating Cincinatti? That was an impressive OOC victory for the Sooners? Really? Call me crazy, but at this point, UT's victory over Arkansas is considerably more impressive than OU's win over Cincy (Arkie beat LSU, who killed Ga Tech, who embarrassed UGA, etc) They suck.



• I was listening to Dan Wetzel, a Yahoo! Sports writer on Houston sports radio yesterday, and he had a great idea: instead of having BCS bowl games in cavernous, tired NFL stadiums that have no atmosphere, (see: Phoenix Stadium and Superdome, The) why not play them in college stadiums? Wetzel argued that the games should be played in one of the participants home stadiums, but that could give the home team an unfair advantage in what should be a neutral site game. Expanding on Wetzel's idea, I'd love to see BCS games be played at college stadiums of teams that aren't playing in a BCS game. Imagine how sweet the Fiesta Bowl would have been if the game took place at Neyland Stadium, or between the hedges in Athens, GA. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I think that would really give the BCS a much-needed boost in atmosphere and add some of the pagentry that makes college football so special in the first place.

That'll do it for now, just remeber kids: When Oklahoma wins, everyone loses.