It’s that time of the year, the NCAA football regular season is wrapping up and the bowl game chatter has started in earnest. 

Thanks to my access to a Netflix account, my eternal boredom, and the joy that I just finished my transfer apps, I tripped on the second episode “Emancipated” of the third season of Malcolm in the Middle.

What caught my eye was Malcom’s part in the episode, the “Krelyboynes” (the smart class he is in) gets a new teacher who implements a new grading system, since the kids are expected to get ‘A’s’.

(You will need to turn the volume up on your computer as the audio level on all of the videos are pretty low.)

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/4/-JYfvjZQlGk

Does the ranking board the teacher uses look familiar?

Thought so.

So all of the kids know they are smart, but now they have the challenge set before then to see who is the “smartest.”

In the BCS everybody know who the top tier teams are, you have the four or five schools that are around the top every year then there are the few teams that are expected to do good but the program might not have the prestige.

So now you have the really good schools ranked at the top at the start of the season, but then you have the schools, like Boise State, who are good, but know they have to do something amazing to have a chance to play in a bowl game against the elite teams.

Back to the classroom we go, now that the kids have had the challenge set before them every class assignment they do as much possible to improve their ranking and hope their answer doesn’t knock them down in the rankings.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/3/4fWkvf7ocU4

When a big school like Alabama loses to another big school in LSU, the loss doesn’t hurt them as much, as seen when the first two boys make arguments and only drop one spot. But then when one of the teams has an upset loss against an unranked team their ranking takes a big hit as seen by the last boy who drops nine spots.

Now, that the season has got underway and teams have settled into where they should be ranked, unless being upset, each team has to put up big gaudy numbers and performances to convince they are an even better team.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/2/YuhV4uJBc1c

Now teams are in the “lets score 70 points against a FBS school, so the fact that we played a FBS school is ignored.”

After that stage, the BCS now finally judges what we have accomplished this season stage, where all the upsets, 70 point games and conference championship games come into play. But not before one team shows off one last time and drives all the other schools crazy—we are looking at you Alabama.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/1/4dyuhaAJrIQ

After the BCS announces that LSU and Alabama will play in the National Championship game everybody goes crazy, because we all know Alabama shouldn’t be in the game.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/0/aWgrAUOizDk

Now the question is, when are we going to break the system? Is this the year Oklahoma State rolls around in the mud because they feel they should have been chosen to play in the National Championship game?

It’s only a matter of time before the 23 schools in the top 25 that didn’t make the National Championship game realize there is a better way to find out who the best school ion the country is.

Just look at FCS football, they know how to do things.

They use a 20 team playoff, with 10 conferences champions getting a automatic bid.

If only…