The BCS Controversy Can Be Placed Squarely on the SEC's Shoulders

Please SEC, use your non-conference schedule to give mid-majors a loss, like all other BCS conference schools do, instead of playing FCS cupcakes. Legend has it that after an embarrassing 1984 college football season where the virtually unheard of Brigham Young University went 13-0, and by beating Michigan in the Holiday bowl, was voted NCAA National Champions. Southern school athletic directors began brainstorming for ideas to stop this insanity. The solution they came up with is now known as the BCS. It's grand design is to keep the attention away from up and coming college athletic programs and therefore the money from college football right where it has been for the previous 50 years. The so-called BCS power conferences completely ignore certain parts of the country in favor of coastal population centers where media dollars are the greatest. It was a pretty good plan, if it's true, and has worked quite well. Even if it is just a rumor, it has had the same result. Recently, however, ... (link)