Because truly, the MAC has one of the bone-stupidest tiebreaker schemes on Planet Earth.

Had my Ball State Cardinals lost to Western Michigan last week (and assuming that CMU doesn’t mail in their then-meaningful game with Eastern a few days later), then BSU, WMU and CMU would have tied for the MAC West title. All three teams would have split their head-to-head matchups with one another. The next tiebreaker?

Overall record? Nope.

Highest BCS ranking (or any other ranking)? Nope.

(Hey, I know record/ranking doesn’t always reflect strength, but it behooves a non-BCS league to put their highest-ranked team forward in the championship game when all else is even).

Points for? Points against? Point differential? Nope, nope and nope.

The MAC’s second tie-breaker in the event of a three-way tie is… best combined record… of your non-division “crossover” league opponents.

I mean, could we find a way to decide a championship that a team has any less control over? Non-division crossover opponents are assigned — at random — by the MAC office. Yet, had BSU lost to WMU, there’s a good chance that CMU is MAC West champion based on the fact that their MAC East opponents won one additional game than BSU’s did.

It takes effort to come up with a system that moronic. It makes just as much sense to award the tie-breaker to the team with the highest avg. game-time temperature.

Here’s another topic for discussion: I know the proprietor of this blog isn’t a big fan of individual awards and the discussion thereof, but I’ll bring this up anyway. Who thinks Colt McCoy will get pushed over the top by voters who seek to sorta “make amends” for Texas getting left out? I’m sure he’d rather be playing in Miami in January, but the Heisman might offer some small comfort.

Every argument you can make why UT should be the division winner could be made by TT.

What’s the rush? Here’s a few recent or semi-recent hires of interim head coaches:

Williams, Bobby; Michigan State: Set the program back 5 years.

Stewart, Bill; WVU: Finished behind Pitt and Cincy when he had a LOT more talent than anyone else in the BigEast.

You’ve got a good program that could dominate the mediocre ACC with the right hire. Take some time, kick a few tires……..

I’ll take him as recruiting coordinator and OL coach any day.

And, there is a precident involved. Back in 1970, Bob Tyler was supposed to be the next HC at Ole Piss when Johnny Vaught retired. Vaught had an unexpected heart attack midseason, Tyler was Vaught’s choice, but the Khayats & Pooles made “Loser” Kinard the HC at the season’s end. He was fired in the middle of the season in 1973.

Tyler, an Ole Piss grad, became HC at MSU in 1972. In 1973, he croomed #1 Florida.

I’m surprised it took 5 posts after mine to see that. We all knew that the Irish were going to get smoked. The point spread was around 32.5 right before kickoff. The Ducks/Beaver game was something totally different. While ND’s offense might have sucked, at least their defense didn’t pull quite the !ole! that the Beavers did and give up 694 yards.

And, since this is generally a Florida board, I’ll simply note that makes it 14 of the last 18. At least Johnson didn’t call for an endzone dance party.

I don’t have any problem with TX-OK for the BCSNCG if Bama loses — they’re both at least as deserving as Florida, Bama, USC, Tx Tech, PSU, etc. The system sucks, those teams have at least as much a say as any.

Imagine this for just a second…Florida beats bama in a really close game…OU barely gets by Mizzu…Texas moves to #1 in the BCS, and OU stays at #2. Now that would be interesting. Florida is way behind Texas and OU in the computers and it would take a big jump in the human polls to put them in over OU and Texas.

I could only imagine the outrage if after all the games are played Texas and OU are playing each other for the NC. It would be a great game by the way…and why not? Florida got to play FSU in a rematch that turned out to be the deciding factor in the 96 NC.