Something that really gets on my nerves is the way people refer to the  football national champion as though it can be split.  They say this referring to the Associated Press (AP) poll and the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).  The give the AP way too much credibility.  The BCS is the true measure of a team if that could actually be done.  The AP has no bearing whatsoever.  The AP use to be a factor in the calculation of the BCS rankings but not since 2004 and in my opinion they never should have been. First off the AP is nothing but a group of arrogant reporters.  I say arrogant because they put themselves as judge over important topics in our world.  Why is it that a reporter is the one that always governs presidential debates?  Who gave them that authority?  I would venture to say they gave themselves that authority. 

If you pay attention to various news web sites when it comes to sports reporting they will ALWAYS report the AP rankings, and not the BCS, the one that counts.  The BCS determines national champions not the AP. The AP is famous for their left wing coverage of Israel.  I use to collect newspaper articles that related to Israel and it was about as biased and staged photos that I have ever seen.  They make a point of finding Arabic mothers carrying babies in front of Israeli tanks, or armed Israeli soldiers.  They barely mention the Arab blowing up a bomb in a bus or grocery store and then spend the rest of the time putting down the Israelis.  They never mention the fact that if these Arabs would behave and stop blowing things up there would be no restrictions on them.

They always refer to the Temple Mount as the Arabs third most holy site while failing to mention that it is the Israelis MOST holy site.  They make every story sound like the Israelis are imposing on their land while neglecting to say that the Israelis were there long before the Arabs.  They also neglect to show that Israel is a small teeny tiny country less than half the size of Oklahoma while the Arabs own land the size of the United States.  It is interesting that the AP and the rest of the left wing media conveniently forget to mention that all the Arab countries around refer to the Arabs as Palestinians exiles while they refuse to let them stay there.  There has never been a nation of Palestine.  The left wing media specifically the AP cannot tell the whole story on any topic. There is a reason that I refuse to listen to them.  The media’s world view is so left wing that anything less liberal than them is considered right wing. 

With all this said, there is no way to accurately measure the rank of college football teams in the current way they are played.  First of all, there are too many colleges to feasably and accurately do a playoff system.  There is no way you can rank colleges that never play each other.  Even if they did play each other there would have to be more than one game.  As anyone knows, anyone can have a bad day and to say they are a team that is not as good as the team they lost to after one attempt is not being honest with themselves.  Even in professional football they play each other more than one time.  There is not enough time in a season for every team to play each other even once.  It is fun to play the ranking game and claim to be national champions but if we were honest we would have to admit that our system is not accurate.  There are always going to be colleges that are good but never get a chance to play the national champion.  I bring this topic up because at work people are so wound up about the Sooners and their rankings.  They take it so serious like it is such an important thing in life.  I am a Sooner fan but I do not think that a ball game is the entire reason for living.  I love to see them succeed  though it is just a game in the end.