Is it fair to shots at a legend?  Does it not seem like blogging about someone whose career squashes your piddly little blog is laughable?  I'm not sure how IJWMFTT should handle Keith Jackson's apeparnce on the Mike Tirico show.  From the host's perspective, that's quite a find for a guest.  From the listeners perspective, we can hear a voice that we last heard - fittingly enough - broadcasting the game of the decade between USC and Texas.  It's a win/win.  Or is it?

With all the hoopla surrounding the BCS, it's only natural to ask one of the stately figures of broadcasting his opinion on the current championship landscape.  The problem is, he comes from an era that has installed, protected, and apologized for this bowl system.  I'm on record here as saying that the BCS has its purpose.  It gives us a much closer depiction of a national champion than the bowl system from the early 90s and prior.  But if the landscape of college football from here foward is the same as what we saw this year, it's time to make another change.  Is it a true playoff?  Is it a plus one?  Some years we get a 2004 with 4 teams entering bowls with an unbeaten record.  This year, we have one, and that team is held in little regard.  It's becoming apparent that we no longer can pick 2 teams from a realistic pool of 4 teams, but we're now left with trying to get two teams from a pool of 12.  It's getting to hard to do it the old way.

Back on topic, Keith Jackson agrees that the system needs a change.  The problem is, he seems to support a roll back.  That's the last thing we need in college football.  He says that the computers have a disparity in their results.  My answer to that is "so what?"  Why use multiple sources if we just want them all spewing the same result?  Furthermore, Bob Stoops has Texas ranked higher than Mack Brown had them ranked.  Howard Schnellenberger has two WAC teams in the top 10.  Bobby Bowden has Missouri ahead of Oklahoma, after two losses to them.  THAT'S the sole data set we need for finding a champion?

I'm sorry, but I've said many times before: the computers are the objective portion of the formula.  Just because Keith Jackson, or Mike Lupica, or Lou Holtz can't understand the computers, doesn't mean that they are the flawed portion of the formula.  Sorry Keith, but it's the end of the 3rd quarter....Oh and just so that I'm not attacked in the comments for being some faceless, new age blogger, trying to smear a legend, it's not an age thing.  It's an I have a problem with Keith Jackson's opinion thing.  Brent Musberger doesn't seem to take issue with the BCS formula.

Whoa Nellie - That's the wrong Keith Jackson!

Fine Keith, you get props, but were you Scuzzlebutt's left leg like this man?