As happy as I am to see that Alabama is in the National Championship game it almost seems tainted to me and I’m not excited about it at all. The ridicule, hate and controversy that this rematch has caused just makes me hate college football even more.
Debate is usually something that is good for a sport. It gives people at the barber shop, Walmart and gym something to talk about on a regular basis. But most of these debates on message boards, radio shows and even on TV are just becoming heated arguments of hate. There is always that point in a debate where one side just has to be the bigger person and say it’s not worth losing a friend over a difference of opinions, but this has escalated into a sickening affair.
The problem is people don’t look at things from both sides of the equation. Oklahoma State has a legitimate reason to be upset, but does that mean they deserve to play for the national championship just to make them happy and so we don’t have a rematch. Alabama’s lone loss this season was to the only team in the nation that went undefeated. Yes Oklahoma State’s resume looks more impressive, but Alabama can’t always help who is on their schedule and they took care of all of the teams they were supposed to in rather easy fashion, Oklahoma State didn’t do that.
Some want to blame the fact that Oklahoma State didn’t play good that night on the plane crash that killed their woman’s basketball coach and assistant coach. That’s a legitimate excuse. I’m not sure how close the football players are with the woman’s basketball coaches, but I’m sure it was difficult to play after that because death makes sports just seem unimportant for the moment.
That being said, they still lost to a team that no championship contender should ever lose to and that’s the lone reason they aren’t playing Monday night and I think for the most part, people across America accept that.
The thing that upsets me is Alabama is in a lose-lose situation in this game, UNLESS they just utterly destroy LSU and then all this goes away. But I don’t think anyone expects this game to be a blowout by either team. I expect Alabama to win and they should win, but if they don’t win by more than 10 points, which they didn’t manage to score that much the first time (neither team did), then people are just going to say that the series is tied one game to one, which is a fair point.
So no matter what happens Monday the debate will continue. The bickering and fighting will go on through message boards and radio stations. It will be analyzed down to every angle, but the fact is until there is a true playoff in college football no one will ever know the truth. I’m not excited about this game on Monday because of the controversy surrounding it, but if that controversy ignites a flame into the money hungry people that are keeping this sport from having a true national champion into finally do something about it, then it could be the greatest night in the history of college football.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a person who loves defense and can’t stand watching Baylor and Oregon put up a trillion points (which wouldn’t happen if they played Monday night) so I will be watching this game intensely come Monday. But up until the game starts is the reason I’ve fallen away from the love I once had for college football. It makes the games unenjoyably because people are too caught up in hating on other teams instead of worrying about enjoying their own team. People are getting too caught up in wins and losses or who’s right and who’s wrong. College football is a sport of passion unlike any other sport, but people need to exploit that passion into helping their own team and not trying to hurt or bring down someone else’s team or conference.
At the end of the day, it’s just football. At the end of Monday we’ll have a BCS National Champion (That’s the team that wins the BCS National Championship GAME, not tournament) and I’ve never been more ready for a college football season to be over with.
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