Why should the same teams win every year?

Bill Plaschke wants the same handful of teams to be good in college football every year. To fans of South Florida and Boston College, your teams should never be good. Ever. Don’t you know your teams are supposed to be worse than Alabama, Penn State and Notre Dame?

It may be fair, it may even be occasionally fun, but it’s just not right.

This is a USC-Notre Dame show, for Knute’s sake!

The bear of a game should have been Alabama-Tennessee!

Shouldn’t we be circling that brawl that is Miami-Florida State?

Those three traditionally great games will be played Saturday, yet none of them will probably figure into the national championship race, so all eyes will be on Piscata-whatever tonight to watch the Who’sthats battle the Somethingoranothers.

I miss great teams to hate. I miss creaky characters to love. I miss familiar fight songs and enduring stadiums and Bevo.

This college football season, I really miss college football.

Wow. Heaven forbid you have to learn about new teams Plaschke. Heaven forbid fans of teams who are usually not that good have hope for once. The audacity to think their teams can compete.

This isn’t just about Plaschke — this is a popular sentiment in sports today. If a miracle happened and South Florida and Kansas faced off in the BCS championship game, media interest would be way down. People aren’t as interested in baseball because the Rockies are in the World Series and the Yankees aren’t. People stop watching the NBA playoffs after the Lakers are eliminated.

But what about the fans of those non-overhyped teams? Fans exist for every major sports team, they just don’t have the numbers the Yankees, Red Sox, Patriots, Cowboys and Lakers do. There are Rockies fans. There are Kansas football fans. Why shouldn’t they get a chance to taste the glory for once?

Because Bill Plaschke and other sportswriters don’t want to watch games between teams they don’t know anything about. Imagine if Plaschke had to do some real reporting, or do some research about one of these teams. That’s a no-no apparently.

Signal to Noise already wrote a great post about this. Read his as well.