Today comes the news that Ohio State has failed to sell all of their Fiesta Bowl tickets to donors and season ticket holders, so tickets will go on sale to the general public on Wednesday.
You certainly can't blame Buckeye fans for not being excited about traveling across the country for their fifth trip to Phoenix in seven years, but this just illustrates the fallacy of having pre-determined tie-ins for BCS bowl games.
Sure, some of them make sense. You want the SEC champion in New Orleans, and you want the Pac-10 champion in Pasadena. Even for tradition sake, I can handle the Big 10 champion going to the Rose Bowl.
But why does the Big 12 have to send its champion to the Fiesta Bowl? The closest conference school is Texas Tech, which is still a 785 mile drive from Lubbock. Why not send the Big 12 champion to the bowl with the most attractive match-up?
This year that would have been the Sugar Bowl against Alabama. There were reports yesterday that Utah had only sold 12,000 of its allotted 17,500 tickets, while those tickets would have been sold out in about 10 minutes by Texas fans.
Then you could have sent Utah to the Fiesta Bowl, a much more manageable distance for Utes fans, and could have invited Boise State to the Fiesta Bowl as well, and had a match-up of the undefeated non-BCS schools. Ohio State shouldn't be there, anyhow, and their fans act like they know it. Boise State fans also would have snatched those tickets up in about 10 minutes.
Anyhow, all of that makes too much sense. Which is never a consideration in college football.
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