The Week that Was

What a week for a sports fan. From the first of January to eigth is the best week of sports not involving march madness. OK it's technically 8 days and not seven but just look at what we were able to digest.

• 6 New Year's day bowl games including the college football game of the season.
• Several others including the way better than expected international bowl.
• NFL playoffs (told you Romo wasn't good)
• regular season NBA games
• regular season NHL games
• World Junior Hockey championship.

Yes it was a great week capped off by my favorite team the Florida Gators destroying the higher ranked Buckeyes. All of this plus great weather up here in southern Ontario plus no school equals good times.

The one thing that bothered me though was people saying how the Boise State, Oklahoma game was the best BCS game of all time and that Boise State deserved to play for the National Championship instead of Florida.

First of all shouldn't we wait a few months before declaring this the best game of all time. I mean it was entertaining but lets let those memories stew for awhile. Declaring the Boise State game the greatest BCS game of all time this early is like having a girlfriend on the first day of Frosh week. Not a good idea at all. So after much contemplation I will give you my top 5 BCS bowl games.

5. 1999 Orange Bowl
Michigan 35 Alabama 34
Started slowly but kept building. Gets bonus points for having two future NFL studs in Brady (Michigan) and Alexander (Alabama) not to mention other solid pros like Chris Sameuls. But ultimately I had to deduct points because Michigan won and I hate Tom Brady.

4. 2004 Rose Bowl
Texas 38 Michigan 37
Vince Young's coming out party, two great historical teams, entertaining from start to finish.

3. 2007 Fiesta Bowl
Boise State 43 Oklahoma 42
The greatest final 5 minutes and overtime but lets be real. It wasn't for the championship and the first three quarters weren't that great.

2. 2005 Rose Bowl
Texas 41 Southern California 38
Star players, heisman trophy winners, historical teams, great ending, two undefeated teams playing for the Championship and entertaining throughout

1. 2002 Fiesta Bowl
Ohio State 31 Miami 24
You could put the 2005 Rose Bowl here but the 2002 Fiesta Bowl is my personal favorite. You've got two historical teams both undefeated. The great freshman tailback Clarett who was never the same again. McGahee's injury, the questionable pass interference call, not to mention two loaded teams. To me this hasn't been topped.

Now on to the other question of whether Boise State deserves to play in the National Championship and I just have four words. Are you kidding me? You really want to open the door for undefeated mid major teams who don't beat a single team in the top 25 into the National Championship? Just look at Boise's schedule. Other than the bowl game they didn't play anyone other than Hawaii who ended up ranked in the top 25. If they would schedule some good non-conference games then I'd be more willing to consider but for now no way. If that happened then all of the major conference schools would schedule nothing but cupcake non conference games. Remember those early season Texas, Ohio State games. Yup those would be a thing of the past because it would be too great a risk to lose that and have a team like Boise State with a cupcake schedule jump them in the standings. The system is already messed up. Don't mess it up more.