West Virginia at Louisville: Bogus national semifinal

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: November 2, 2006   

One of college football's national semifinals will be played tonight. Few seem excited.

West Virginia at Louisville is a matchup of unbeaten Big East teams, ranked third and fifth in the BCS.

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Cheers & jeers: Rookie Vince Young; NCAA's football schedule

Cheers
• To Vince Young. Four starts as a pro, and the Titans are 2-2, including a 14-13 loss at Indianapolis. Young looks like he'll make it as an NFL quarterback, and there's no ceiling on how good he can be.

• To the Big 12 South, which once again is dominating the North. The South's six teams are 13-3 in interdivision games, thanks to an Okie sweep of the North's two best teams Saturday. Victories in the final two interdivision matchups — Texas at Kansas State, Nebraska at Texas A&M — would equal the historic imbalance of 2004, when the South went 15-3.

Jeers
• To college football's goofy schedule. The Ohio State-Michigan winner will have 50 days off before the Jan. 7 BCS title game.

• To the new NBA basketballs. All that complaining has some validity. Picked up a ball at a Hornets practice the other day, and they do feel funny.

The winner appears headed for a national-title showdown against the Ohio State-Michigan winner.

And it's totally bogus.

The Big East is a hybrid conference of old-Big East leftovers and Conference USA refugees.

When Miami was stuck in a bad Big East, it loaded up its non-conference schedule. Florida State every year.

Iowa, Arizona, Penn State, Colorado, Arizona State, Washington, UCLA. That's just in a five-year span from 1991-95.

West Virginia, in particular, and Louisville haven't done that. Louisville at least played Miami; Louisville's other non-Big East foes were Kentucky, Temple, Kansas State and Middle Tennessee. West Virginia's five non-conference foes were much worse: Marshall, Eastern Washington, Maryland, East Carolina and Mississippi State. Only Maryland was a decent opponent.

Does the Louisville-West Virginia winner deserve a national-title slot more than does a one-loss team that played a loaded schedule?

If USC finishes 11-1, the Trojans will have defeated Arkansas, Nebraska, Notre Dame, California, Oregon, Washington State and UCLA.

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