It's time

I don't know why, but college football is my second favorite sport behind college basketball.

The only thing that bugs me the most about college football is the outright hypocrisy of the governing bodies which are the BCS conferences.

Who was last year's national champions? I would offer Boise State.

But Gordon, they didn't play anybody.

Well, here is the Big Eleven non conference schedule for the 2007 season.

Appalachian State at Michigan
Youngstown State at Ohio State
Florida International at Penn State
Northeastern at Northwestern
UAB at Michigan State
Washington State at Wisconsin
Missouri at Illinois
Iowa at Northern Illinois
Purdue at Toledo
Indiana State at Indiana
Bowling Green at Minnesota
Akron at Ohio State
Nevada at Northwestern
Bowling Green at Michigan State
Miami (OH) at Minnesota
Eastern Illinois at Purdue
Oregon at Michigan
Notre Dame at Penn State
Western Illinois at Illinois
Syracuse at Iowa
Indiana at Western Michigan
Wisconsin at UNLV
Citadel at Wisconsin
Buffalo at Penn State
Akron at Indiana
Pittsburgh at Michigan State
Illinois at Syracuse
Central Michigan at Purdue
Minnesota at Florida Atlantic
Iowa at Iowa State
Notre Dame at Michigan
Ohio State at Washington
Duke at Northwestern
Michigan State at Notre Dame
Notre Dame at Purdue
Eastern Michigan at Michigan
Kent State at Ohio State
Northwestern at Eastern Michigan
Northern Illinois at Wisconsin
North Dakota State at Minnesota
Ball State at Illinois
Ball State at Indiana
Penn State at Temple
Western Michigan at Iowa

You tell me how is Boise State going to get a game with one of these "somebody" teams. You couldn't find more cupcakes, Twinkies or fruit pies on a Hostess truck (or a certain senator's favorite public restroom).

If you think I'm just banging on the Big Eleven, the SEC Big Twelve and PAC Ten are just as bad.

The fact is the NCAA doesn't run college football and never has. Before the BCS was the CFA, and they made sure the bowl trough was only going to feed the power conferences.

With the current BCS configuration and the extra regular season game it's only gotten worse. The power teams go out of their way to schedule an undefeated non conference schedule and then hope to play an undefeated conference schedule for a BCS title shot.

So this weekend, I'll be at on my couch watching hours of coverage of the Big Eleven - MAC Challenge.

My infamous prediction. By week 7, all the talking heads will be wondering which of the 6 or 7 undefeated teams deserve a BCS title shot only to watch all but one of them lose by week 11.

PS I know why they call it THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, they never leave Ohio until about mid November.