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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Even if TCU and Boise State run the table, they still don't deserve to be in the Bowl Championship Series title game, Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee said Wednesday.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the president at the university with the largest athletic program in the country said that TCU and Boise State do not face a difficult enough schedule to play in the national championship game.
"Well, I don't know enough about the Xs and Os of college football," said Gee, formerly the president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities. "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day.
"So I think until a university runs through that gantlet that there's some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to [be] in the big ballgame."
Gee, long an admirer of the BCS and the current bowl system, said he was against a playoff in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
"If you put a gun to my head and said, 'What are you going to do about a playoff system [if] the BCS system as it now exists goes away?' I would vote immediately to go back to the bowl system," he said.
Neenee geen play-offs, stel je voor.... dan zou OSU tegen een "unworthy team" moeten spelen en enorm uitgekleed worden, gelijk zoals dat gebeurde die twee keer dat ze in de big game stonden...
Alsof je het wel verdiend om in de big game te komen als je niet eens undefeated kunt gaan in de BigTen.
Put your money where you mouth is, and play BSU or TSU in stead of Ohio, Marshal or Eastern Michigan next year in one of your out of conference games...