Even though West Virginia didn't make the BCS Championship, it is clear from Ohio State and West Virginia what gets you into the championship. Play in a horrible conference, make sure that conference doesn't have a championship game, play no threats out of conference, and you're in. Quite simply: be in a BCS conference with no championship game and no difficult opponents, and win. That's it. It doesn't matter who really are the best two teams, and how capable your team is of competing in the title game, just rack up wins however possible. There is no incentive whatsoever to schedule potentially difficult cross-country matchups, as there is no playoff at the end of the season for which your team needs to be battle tested.
Ohio State will get creamed by LSU, Illinois will get pounded by USC, and West Virginia will most likely lose their BCS bowl, but yet we'd have an OSU-West Virginia matchup had the Big 12 not chosen to have a conference championship and West Virginia not expose themselves as obvious frauds.
I think I liked it more when teams just competed for regional championships, as this facade of a "national championship" is a ****ing joke....
Ohio State will get creamed by LSU, Illinois will get pounded by USC, and West Virginia will most likely lose their BCS bowl, but yet we'd have an OSU-West Virginia matchup had the Big 12 not chosen to have a conference championship and West Virginia not expose themselves as obvious frauds.
I think I liked it more when teams just competed for regional championships, as this facade of a "national championship" is a ****ing joke....
