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Bumbling...stumbling...fumblin g, everybody wants the bouncing oblong ball, but it lingers in an unpredictable manner, so nobody knows how to get a handle on it. The colliding forces of college football dive indiscriminately without regard for the damage they might inflict, governing bodies colliding from every direction in a scramble to take possession of the moneyball in college football.

If only someone with vision, a little clout in college football, and a huge set of testicles would recognize the potential for reform and pounce upon the opportunity. Unfortunately, what passes for foresight from the BCS Nostradaumus wouldn't provide enough visibility for a plane to land.

If only we had someone who could clearly see the tree's through the forest, the irony among the college football story, or the riddle wrapped inside the hidden agenda of the BCS enigma. Instead, every year in August, we get the phony pre-season rankings setting up the elite in college football for a destined title run before a single game even begins.

Every year we get the smear campaigns against those we fear the most, self-fulfilling prophecies boasting of the strength of our own, and the aristocratic Godfathers of College Football threatening to throw gasoline on an already inhospitable fire.

The Rose Bowl Alliances (better known as the Big-10 & PAC-10 Conferences), who have whole-heartedly supported the NCAA on matters related to the idealistic destiny of the student-athletes who participate in college football, have faught for years with the historical backbone of the sport - better known as the unionized College Football Association members - who have now developed the much maligned Bowl Championship Series and the controversy that spews forth from its jaws with each passing season.

It's the Rose Bowl Alliance, representing the intellectual destiny of the collegiate institution versus Southern sensibilities, representing the electrified tradition of zooming football's, human bodies, helmets and beer hurling through the air on autumn Saturday afternoons a classic battle between idealism versus realism.

It can be compared to British Royalty versus the Freedom Fighters of the American Revolution. The Hatfields and The McCoy's of today's football world hold all the keys to success in developing perhaps one of the greatest and equally unifying sporting venues of the new century.

While the south hurls its venom towards the west, clamorously shouting of superior strength in terms of numbers, weapons

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