There is no real National Champion

They played a football game last night, but as to who won, who cares? Or, more correctly, who should care? Simply that a group of people trying to make money got together and declared one game a championship match does not make it so. Indeed, it reeks of that corporatism which is slowly destroying America as much as the increasingly slack morals we, as a nation, continue to tolerate.

Why must their be a national champion anyway? Especially in a sport such as college football, where leagues abound and local rivalries are what made the game popular in the first place. Why do we require the false unity of a single champion?

It isn't as though the best team actually wins all the time every time. Even in a true playoff scenario, the victor is often the team which gets on a hot streak. There is no reason to be impressed that one team won one game, particularly a game crowned as the end all be all on fairly arbitrary grounds.

The Ivy League has the right idea: play among ourselves and don't fret over what anyone else is doing. As it is, the average fan is simply being played by corporate greed. That's not sportsmanship. That's selfishness.