With the way that all of the conferences looked this weekend, I
think that it is appropriate to bring up the issues surrounding
the BCS and the structure of conferences.  It seems that college
football has fallen into a great imbalance: Ohio State, USC, and
Oklahoma have no worthy challengers within their conferences,
while the ACC and Big East, albeit with a couple of contenders,
have fallen to a level that is below mediocrity.  Then you have
the SEC, which has many teams that can win the conference.  When
they get a shot at all of the marbles, they have collectively
gotten the job done an extremely high percentage of the time.
All of this has led to disaster after disaster with the BCS due
to the fact that the BCS rankings depend largely on a team's
record, which can be greatly affected by the difficulty of the
schedule that a team faces that year.  That has been the story
the past couple of seasons, and the early signs say that it
probably won't change.  Something needs to be changed with the
current syst