What Right Do I Have?

I've sent emails off here and there lately making declarations such as Troy Trojans to play for National Championship. And the thought occurred to me the last time I did this, what right do i have to make such a declaration? Really, who am I to make such a declaration, after all I'm not in any position of authority whatsoever in the college football world. I'm barely a blip, if even that, on the radar screen.

So can someone just go out and declare a national champion just because they say so? How different is that than saying I declare myself president of the United States?

But that's one of the things that stands out so well about major college football. Because there is no official national champion, it does leave things wide open. We do have the BCS, but the whole USC LSU debacle a few years back proved that to be problematic. The fact of the matter is there IS no official college football champion. There never has been. Right now it looks like there likely never will be. The authority that is has no system in place to declare a national championship. People forget that the BCS is NOT an NCAA institution, but a third party institution comprised of some schools, some bowls and some conferences.

Thus for years, different entities have made their own declaration of who the national champion is. Anyone remember when it was AP and UPI? And there were others who through the years have made their declarations.

And the question stands, do i have any less right to make such a declaration? I would say that if it were just an arbitrary thing, where I just said okay, I think Appalachian State is the overall National Champion just because I liked that one game, then I think no, that's not right. But when it's based on a system, on something clearly defined, then I think in the end I have no less right to make such a declaration than anyone else. The polls do it based on a system, being a group of (hopefully) carefully selected voters. There are tons of computer polls out there that all have their own formulas. And the Heavyweight Football Championship is based on something very very clearly stated. So I don't think i'm going overboard to state that I think my declaration has no less weight to it than any of the others. I won't pretend to be any more important than any others or any more definitive.

I guess that's another area where we're looking at something a lot like boxing, huh? After all, look how many different 'authorities' have their own champions declared.

I love this!!! Nothing like a little bit of football to make me feel important. Important enough to declare the National Champion.

If you want to see someone on cloud 9, let Troy upset Florida. Which is nothing against Florida at all, because I believe Florida deserves to be the champ right now. I'd feel the same way if it were Nebraska that were the champ and got upset, I'd still be loving it because I could make a declaration of a National Champion no one else would dream of making.

Hmmm... am i in this just to stroke my ego? Probably.....