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I’ve been disappointed in a lot of things in my life, there was Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the guy with the big feet…well you get the point. But never had I experienced what was close to outright sports depression as when I saw Colt McCoy get knocked out of the BCS title game.

To say that I was a little bummed is like saying Porky Pig has a slight speech impediment. Forget about staring at his hot ass all night long, I was mostly bummed because I was being cheated out of what I thought would’ve been one of the best college football championship games ever played.

With Colt McCoy, Texas and Alabama were even. Without Colt McCoy, game plans were altered on both sides and the BCS title game turned into a snoozer for the better part of an hour. Alabama turned extremely conservative offensively and Texas backup QB Garret Gilbert tried to overcome nerves solely on the strength of his rocket arm.

Side note: Gilbert’s really cute and he’s gotta cannon for an arm, however, I’ll still take Colt’s ass.

Back to the game, with McCoy getting x-rays on his injured shoulder, Gilbert completed just one pass in the first half. With Alabama playing not to lose for most of the third quarter, the game was about as exciting as waiting for your partner to orgasm after you’ve completed yours. And then the unexpected happen.

Gilbert faked a short route, looked off a defender and delivered a rope to a streaking Jordan Shipley who caught it in stride and raced for the end zone. Suddenly, down only 24-13, these steers had some fight in ‘em. On Texas’ next possession Gilbert took something off the ball and floated another TD pass to a wide open Shipley, and with a 2-point conversion the Longhorns trailed 24-21.

Texas got the ball back again down by three, deep in their own territory with just a few minutes left in the game. Could a true freshmen quarterback who couldn’t hit the broad side of a drag queen in the first half really rally his team from an 18-point deficit against the #1 team in the country at the Rose Bowl?

Hells No!

A sack from Gilbert’s blind side, a fumble and the game was over, Alabama wins the national championship. Turnovers, the one factor you can’t predict, decides the game.

There was the controversial interception on a shuffle pass, which was returned for a TD in the closing minute of the first half for Alabama, and there was the fumble at the end of the game which stood out, however Texas turned the ball over a total of five times.

In the end, it was as Texas head coach Mack Brown had predicted in his pre-game ABC interview, “whoever wins the turnover battle will win the game.”

Alabama won the game 37-21 and the turnover battle by three.

News flash, Tim Tebow was not a unanimous selection to the All-SEC team. Huh? Winning the Heisman and two national championships isn’t enough to garner All-SEC status in one of the worst quarterbacking leagues in all of college football? As if we needed a reminder of how college football is all screwed up.

Without context, the omission of Tebow by Steve Spurrier seems like a simple case of human error. When you allow self-interested, or worse yet uninterested, coaches to vote on something that directly benefits them or their friends it’s a mistake. Now in the case of Spurrier and the All-SEC team it appears that he falls into the ‘uninterested’ category. According to ESPN’s SEC football blogger Chris Low,

Spurrier explained that his director of football operations had filled out the ballot and brought it in to him. Spurrier said he glanced at it, signed off on it, and then realized his mistake much later.

Coaches frequently allow ADs, Assistant Coaches and even secretaries to vote on various awards and polls. It’s standard operating procedure in college football.

It’s no big deal right? It’s just a pre-season All-Conference team. Yet here’s the real stupidity of college football; the NCAA uses the AP coaches poll to help determine the BCS rankings!

The Harris Interactive College Football Poll, USA Today Coaches Poll and computer rankings each comprise one-third of the BCS Standings.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake and the NCAA turns a blind eye to the fact that the coaches poll is determined by Athletic Directors, Assistant Coaches, Directors of Football Operations and secretaries.

I’m glad that Congress is going after the NCAA. It’s friggin ridiculous! Coaches are too busy to keep up with the landscape of college football and their bias for former colleagues and against current foes can cloud their judgment. In order to commit fraud one must have three things; Opportunity, Pressure and Incentive. Everyone associated with college football is under tremendous pressure which creates the incentive to cheat.

By the way, Jamie Speronis is the bunghole who voted for Snead over Tebow. Jamie Speronis, you got sum splaining to do!