Double Standards Abound

For the past few years, college football experts have taken a plunge off the deep end. Since the inaugural season of SEC dominance, where Florida smacked Ohio State in the National Title game, sports writers and BCS computers alike have been eating, drinking, and sleeping with the SEC. Apparently that game was a significant turning point in the minds of sports experts nationwide. Since then, hands down the SEC has been the "number one" conference in the Nation.

What I'm here to do is dispel those thoughts, bring to light the truth of college football. The truth is that every year is completely a new year in college football. The opinions of the voters, the ranking system of Rivals and Scout, and success of the previous year means next to nothing. The preliminary polls are what establish the attitude for the upcoming year, and they are purely based on speculation and potential. So what I am saying is that there is a great level of inconsistency in college football, year in and year out because we'd rather guess who is going to do well, and stick to that perception all year long.

Why is it that if everyone in the SEC, except for the top two go 7-5 or 8-4 that everyone proclaims the great balance in that conference. The standard here is that each of these teams or well balanced, great athletes, most speed, etc. However, if the standings are mirrored in the entire ACC, everyone speaks about how soft the conference is, and how much they are lacking a dominant team to assert themselves.

Are the only players being taken in the draft from the SEC? Are the all the playmakers in the NFL, the fastest guys from the SEC? Here's a list of some of the fastest players in the NFL and their respective schools:

Desean Jackson: Cal
Devin Hester: Miami
Chris Johnson: ECU
Percy Harvin: Florida
Adrian Peterson: Oklahoma
Deangelo Williams: Memphis
Steve Smith: Utah
Calvin Johnson: GTech
Ted Ginn Jr: Ohio State
Josh Cribbs: Kent State

Does anything about that list scream out the SEC? The only cut I will take at the SEC is that they produced the single largest draft bust of all time in JaMarcus Russell, far worse than the Chargers taking Ryan Leaf and the Lions combination Charles Rogers and Mike Williams.

Anyways, this bias has got to come to an end, because this bias leads to an unfair advantage in the initial polls for college football every year. The automatic assumption of the SEC's supremacy each and every single year could lead to a one loss SEC team playing for the National Title for the next 50 years. It is said every year, whoever wins the SEC will play for the National Title game. From that point on and that presumption, all of the other conferences strengths are tainted before the season even starts.

So what am I getting to? The point is that each team has its match up, and college football is beginning to even out across the country. Athletes have never been stronger, faster, or smarter than this day and age. The only way to get rid of this political and media bias, is to institute a playoff system. We will never know which conference holds supremacy, who knows if 8-4 SEC team can beat an 11-1 Pac-10 team. How do we know, unless we institute a fair system, and give the top 16 teams in the country a chance to win it all. In order to keep preseason bias out of it, I say give the Big Six conference champs automatic bids, and let the rest of the field be chosen by the voters. Keep the computers out, the Bowl committees out of it, and let the teams play their ways in.

Unfortunately though, due to greed, conference refs blowing big calls in big games (so they don't ruin their conferences chance at a representative in the Title game), and national bias, there will always be an SEC team in the National Title game. So get used to it, watching one of the Big Three (LSU, UF, Bama) vie for the Title every year, people with peanut butter on the roof of their mouths screaming of their SEC dominance, and the lack of integrity in college football for years to come.

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