College football has the most broken and idiotic system of any sport that receives even a minute of television coverage. That anyone can support such a cheating and broken system is beyond me. Figure skating has more legitimacy and fairness.
This is moronic. You aren’t crowning the best team now because you can’t even decide which team is the best team (emphasis on the word “decide,” since the games played on the field have little to no relevance to which team is considered best). You can hardly even decide which two teams are the best teams. Here, I’ll fix your statement for you…
“In other swords, who cares about crowning the best team, let’s see who can win a single game between an arbitrary, cherry-picked set of opponents from among a fraction of the available teams.”
Right, much better.
This is absolutely untrue, and not only so, but it is an oft-repeated talking point without any real meaning.
Of all the games played in division I college football, only a fraction of them have any importance at all. Here’s why.
Start of the season. If you aren’t in the top two or three conferences, you already lose. Thanks for (not) playing, better luck next year (or not, you’ll never have a chance, but that’s okay. “Working as intended”)! It doesn’t matter if these teams win or lose their first game, because there is no possibility these teams can even attempt to compete for the championship, even if they win all their games. None of their games have any importance.
After the first week of games, all teams who lost a game are eliminated (so their remaining games have zero importance)… unless you’re from a power conference or have a traditionally powerful program. Then it’s okay if you lose, because the early games have no importance for you either (are you following along? so far the only games that actually matter are those played by teams in power conferences WITHOUT traditionally powerful programs, that’s like twenty schools total). As everyone knows, it’s okay to lose a game at a power program, so long as you lose early. Because that’s not arbitrary…
So, now you’re left with about a dozen teams each year, after only a week of games, who are still playing meaningful games. And even then, if you’re a school like LSU or USC, your games aren’t even that important because apparently, sometimes it’s okay to even lose a second game and still get to play for the national championship, even if the rest of the Top 25 has only lost one game or none at all.
College football should just stop lying to the fans.