Fiesta Bowl

[Alexa Stott]

One team that was definitely over-rated this year was Notre Dame. I'm not denying that they are a good football team, because they are. But their schedule this season is absolutely ridiculous! They covered all of the armed forces (though Navy wasn't bad this year), Penn State, and UNC. For their schedule, they were ranked way too high, in my opinion.

The BCS system is extremely flawed. Teams like Penn State get to play in New Year's Day bowl games when they have a record of 8-4 and are ranked only 4th in their conference. PSU played Tennessee, who went 9-3 this season. Another example of a team that didn't deserve to even be in a bowl game would be Miami, who was 6-6 this year. Teams ranked as high as 2nd or 3rd play in some of the less important bowls, though they deserve to be playing in better bowl games. I will again use Rutgers as an example, since I've been following them for 15 years. They went 10-2 in 2006 and played in the Texas Bowl, which was aired on the NFL Network, only accessible to people with satellite until a last-minute agreement was reached with Cablevision. They played a team that was 7-5!

Hopefully, the NCAA would have realized that the schools, players, coaches, and fans are not totally thrilled with the error-ridden BCS system.