The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Between the tradition and progression, youth and experience, strategy and randomness, skill and luck, excitement and deafening silence, and pageantry, college football is arguably the greatest sport in America, quite possibly the world. The coverage of it, however, may be the worst of any sport. In every major professional sport, the best teams reach the playoffs; play in a tournament; and at the end of the day, only one team remains. There's never any talk about polls, where the coaches or media ranked the New Orleans Saints or Chicago Bulls, etc. It's all settled on the field (or court or rink or whatever). Even in college basketball and baseball, while some politicking goes on, large tournaments tend to leave little question of who the best team was at season's end. That's not the case with college football. While the product on the field itself is arguably the best in the world, there's so much politicking going on, one could swear they were in the middle of an ...