Smith, OSU Shown Lacking in BCS Game - As Expected

I'm sure you've heard the score of the BCS Championship Game, and you've heard that tOSU got an amazing 82 yards in the game.

Eighty-Two.

EIGHTY-TWO. And most of those yards were from Antonio Pittman.

Which means that the guy who won the Heisman finished 4-for-14 for 35 yards and ended up with the lowest passing efficiency rating of any quarterback in BCS history. And mostly got his clock cleaned all night as his vaunted unstoppable offensive line was pummeled by Florida's speed.

Now, the point I'm going to make here is to show you that I WAS RIGHT. And so was anyone who said that Troy Smith wasn't worthy of the Heisman this season due to the power of the rest of his team. They made him look good all season, and he obviously was just a "good" player at best. When faced with that good a defensive line, he folded.

Let's compare: in a 47-21 loss to Michigan, Brady Quinn threw for 234 yards and 3 touchdowns. In a 44-24 loss to USC, he threw for 274 yards and 3 touchdowns. And in the Sugar Bowl against LSU, a 41-14 loss, he threw for 148 yards and 2 touchdowns.

So even in losing efforts (where the majority of the losing was by the defense), Quinn put up good numbers (well, fair numbers in the case of LSU). Smith? Nope.

Once again, the Maxwell Award got it right (as well as, apparently, the Cingular award) and the Heisman got it wrong. Maybe it's time to start ignoring the Heisman as the end-all and be-all of college football individual awards.

The final point I'd like to make is that the Big "We Can't Count" needs a championship game. If you're not going to play everyone in your conference (which OSU COULD do, but that would leave room for only two patsies on their schedule other than their conference "rivals") then you need to have a championship game. As in 2002 when OSU didn't play Iowa and therefore ducked a major conference powerhouse, OSU didn't have to play Wisconsin this year (who WON their bowl game). A championship game would serve two purposes: 1) it would legitimize the "conference champion" and 2) it would give the team one more game closer to the bowl game.

The Big "We Can't Count" would be well advised to stop listening to their juggernauts in OSU and U of M who don't want to lose the "importance" of their big game together at the end of the season and simply instate a championship game.

And one more thing: the Heisman folks need to stop awarding their prize before the season's over.