By: B Phillips

Every year in NCAA Football we kick arond the term “Cinderellas,” or “BCS Busters.”  This is a term reserved for an undfeated, non BCS confernce team that crashes the BCS party.  Hawaii did it last year, Boise St. the year before that, and Utah a few years before them.  However in the history of the BCS we’ve never come close to the possibility of not one, but two glass slippers being sent out to an attractive underdog, with so many ugly stepsisters on the schedule.  Could this be the year?

Most would agree last season was the craziest season thus far under the BCS. It seemed as if no team was truly preared to step up, and lay claim to their right to play for a national championship (W. Virginia, Oklahoma, Oregon, Mizzou,). It was the first time we saw a two-loss team in the championship game, playing a team that most felt didnt belong.  And while even the most well tanned of PAC 10 fans would conceed LSU had one of the most talented teams in the country, did they deserve to be there following a regular season ending loss at home to an unranked team?  Hmmm?  Mizzou beat Kansas, lost in the Big 12 Championship (a game Kansas did not make) however it was Chase Daniel and the Tigers peaking through the window at the Prince’s ball, while the Jayhawks danced about with yet another undeserving ACC winch.  “Ring, Ring.  Hello WAC?  This is the ACC, we are sending you our automatic BCS bid via Fed Ex, and just wanted to provide you with the tracking number.” 

With this in mind let’s return to our fairy tale before the clock strikes midnight, and our carriage turns back into a pumpkin (or a Va Tech QB whichever is worse).  On the heels of last years craziness, the 2008 season will not be outdone.  I am of the opinion (of course my opinion, a turd wrapped in xmas paper, and a quarter combined are worth 25 cents) that the Big 12 and SEC are the two premier conferences this year hands down.  USC is a title contender, Penn St. can control their destiny, and the ACC and Big East should consolidate into one conference and have their two best teams play in a game dubbed “The Shit Bowl” to be played at a high school field in Arkansas at noon on a random Tuesday.  

I see Oklahoma and Mizzou having no more then a loss a piece with one team winning the Big 12 Championship.  The winner of Georgia vs Florida will play the winner of LSU vs Bama in the SEC championship game, the winner of this game heads off to Miami for a National Title game versus the Big 12 winner.  Penn St. and Ohio St. will finish atop the Big Ten, with the winner of that game (probably Ohio St, given Penn St. will lose half their team to the Pennsylvania State Corrections Flag Footbal Team before the game is even played) laying claim to the title and a Rose Bowl bashing at the hands of USC.  The two teams that lose in the Big 12 and SEC Championship games will be top billing for an at large, paving the way for the stars of this Fair Tale to align. Ladies and gentelmen may I introduce your BYU “Cougars” and Boise St. “Fighting Statue of Liberties,” coming in undfeated if they can get past Fresno St. and Utah respectively, and marking 2008 the year of the two headed princess! 

Let me bottom line this for you:
1)Championship game (SEC #1 vs Big 12 #1)
2)Orange Bowl aka “Shit Bowl” (ACC #1 vs Big East #1)
3)Rose Bowl (PAC 10 #1 vs Big Ten #1)
4)Sugar Bowl (Sec #2 vs Cinderella #1)
5)Fiest Bowl (Big 12 #2 vs Cinderella #2)

Now I realize this isn’t the ending we all anticipated, but trust me, a two headed princess is a lot cooler than one in so many ways!!
Until Next Time,

Stay Dirty!

BP