Idiots Write About Sports

AP: “If you’ve got a vote, vote for us,” [Texas coach Mack] Brown said, pleading directly to voters in The Associated Press writers poll. “I’m asking you to do that and I’m asking everyone across the nation.”

“I know that Cal almost beat USC and shut out Arizona State. I know that if they win next week, they’re 10-1 just like we are. I know that Cal hasn’t been to the Rose Bowl for 45 years, and that their players are just deserving as our players. “But screw all of that. Vote for Texas! We want to go to the BCS! We’ll buy you candy if you vote for us!” Maybe the voters are such sheep that they’ll push Texas above Cal — let’s face it, it’s a possibility, since Cal lost 12 points in last week’s poll after their largest victory over Stanford in more than 70 years. But if Cal wins next week at Southern Miss, and is barred from their first Rose Bowl since the ’50s because voters decided at the last minute to tactically switch to Texas in order to screw Cal and promote the Big XII, then it’s no longer time to tweak the BCS system — it’s time to detonate it.