Before Thursday’s college football championship game even kicked off, three teams were already claiming the national title – and none of the three were named Florida or Oklahoma.
And all of them have legitimate arguments, logical claims to the throne.
That’s what happens when 120 teams chase a common goal and those in charge – university presidents, the NCAA leadership, television executives and bowl leaders alike – can’t agree on a clear-cut method to pick the best of the bunch.
UL Lafayette's absence from the postseason bowl picture has all the aspects of a television crime drama.
There are lots of suspects - mistakes by a conference office, odd picks by bowl committees, poor performances by the Ragin' Cajun football team itself. But there's only one set of victims, that being the players who thought they'd done enough to put their program into its first-ever Division I bowl game.
Before Thursday’s college football championship game even kicked off, three teams were already claiming the national title – and none of the three were named Florida or Oklahoma.
UL Lafayette's absence from the postseason bowl picture has all the aspects of a television crime drama.