As a life-long, avid football fan, I have decried the myriad injustices of the sport's championships. There was no excuse for the Jets beating the Colts in 1969's Super Bowl III. Baltimore's besting of the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V made me sob. I will always lament the "Immaculate Reception" by Pittsburg's Franco Harris that prevented the Oakland Raiders from playing for the championship that they so richly deserved in the mind of an eleven-year-old child.But, the road to the college football championship(s) has always been even more tumultuous and less certain than the most extreme examples in the NFL. And, that is why the NCAA's product is better than the NFL's.Despite its commercialization, college football is still a GAME. It is a sacrosanct bastion of childhood loyalties and juvenile emotions. It is a "place" where men who never played football beyond the age of twelve but who limp walking to the bathroom can pretend that they are young and...(Read Full Post)