The best college football blog on the internets, The Wiz of Odds, scooped an interesting story this week concerning a possible game between Texas and Wisconsin in 2009.  Though ESPN tried to broker a deal between the two schools to make the game happen, neither side was willing to part with a home game in 2009, so instead they'll stick with playing the likes of Wofford and Louisiana-Monroe.

Set aside for a moment the fact that the Longhorns would probably slaughter the Badgers next season, regardless of the venue.  Wisconsin still is at least a name school, for the time being at least.  Outside of the whole not getting the right two teams in the national championship game issue, my biggest problem with the BCS (which no one seems to want to discuss) is that big name schools simply don't want to play each other in out-of-conference games anymore. 

Because of the one-and-done (or in recent years, one and hope everything falls your way) nature of the BCS era of college football, the incentive of getting a big win against a major opponent is far outweighed by the disincentive of having your season torpedoed by a loss of any sort.  And since the BCS conferences are already difficult enough to get through undefeated, why take the chance of taking the L when you might be able to skate into the championship game with an 11-1 record and a horrendous non-conference schedule?

So we, the college football fans, get treated to more Texas/Wyoming and Wisconsin/Northern Iowa tilts, instead of more marquee games that we grew up watching.  It's something to throw out there the next time one of the five people in the world that likes the bowl structure says that a playoff system would devalue the regular season.  From where we're sitting now, the regular season ain't all that exciting.

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