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MITCHELL SHORT: How WWE's Jim Ross Can Save College Football's Bowl Championship Series

Dec 2, 2008 - 9:27:45 PM
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Jim Ross can cry all the crocodile tears he wants on his blog for those poor kids on the Texas and Texas Tech football teams who won't get the chance to play for college football's Bowl Championship Series Championship, like his beloved Oklahoma Sooners, I'm not buying it. Ross has parlayed his national celebrity as a longtime announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment into, perhaps, even bigger fame as the Oklahoma Sooners' Number One Fan.

Good Ol' JR no doubt used his and his company's substantial media clout behind the scenes to position OU above their Texas rivals into the Key Big 12 title game and on to the BCS National Championship game against Alabama. Ross short-sighted selfishness on behalf of his team blinded him to a chance to resolve the biggest controversy in all of college football this year.

You see, OU, Texas, and Texas Tech (ranked 4th, 3rd, and 8th respectively in this week's AP Top 25) ended up in a dead heat for first place in the South Division of the Big 12. All three ended the regular season with a record of 11 wins and 1 loss and unlike in Ross' day job, this sport actually keeps track. Incredibly, those losses all came against each other. Texas beat Oklahoma, Texas Tech beat Texas (in the game of this and many other years), and Oklahoma beat Texas Tech – a dead heat. Ross musthave called in every favor he had to get the Sooners their shot in a pressure cooker like this.

It's too bad, because Good Ol' JR knows what should be done when three Number One Contenders all deserve a chance at the championship better than any other power broker in college football.

It's not some lame three game mini-tournament between the three schools, either. Something that would take that long would put even more pressure on student athletes during exam time, test the focus of fans who might change the channel on a whim, and beat up the winning team just as they readied to play for the game before the game for the BCS Championship.

The answer is right in front of Good Ol' JR's face, an answer that would solve, once and for all, who was the better team between these three college football giants. Ross knows what to do, because his sport, the one that can make things come out any way they want, solves this particular problem all the time.

Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas Tech should fight it out for the Big 12 South honors in a Three Way Dance! After all, it's the most popular concept in Ross' sport, and he's called more of them than anyone. Wrestling fans love it, and wrestling promoters who love drawing money and excitement give those fans what they clearly, booking Three Way Dances on their lucrative pay-per-shows every chance they get.

Sure, some changes would have be made in the staid college football rules (I'm thinking three-sided field) but even President-elect Barack Obama thinks the BCS should be reformed.



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