ESPN's Ivan Meisel needs some cheese to go with his whine:
The Bowl Championship Series made it official Sunday night. Ladies and gentlemen, the modern American sports fan’s nightmare — a World Series featuring the Yankees and the Red Sox.
For six months of the year, baseball fans who don’t live on the Amtrak Northeast Corridor have New York and Boston shoved down their throats. Now, college football fans who don’t live on the Gulf Coast must stomach a national championship mandated by the SEC-industrial complex.
The rest of the nation hears the Southeastern Conference boast of its five consecutive national championships and fumes. But at least, in each of those five games, the rest of the nation had an opponent on which to pin its hopes. This season, college football did what Major League Baseball hasn’t had the stones to do just yet. We still haven’t seen the Yankees and the Red Sox in a World Series. But for the first time in modern history, two teams from the same league will play for the national championship.
And not just any league, but the SEC, the one that has the evidence to show it’s the best league in college football but lacks the discretion not to brag about it.
