Continuing a case study from a long time ago: The Farce Which Is Championship College Football, Part One...

Entering the 2013 college football season, I did this case study on the entire history of the BCS and the legality of the games and teams which played in them.  The website no longer exists, but a website had chronicled the probation and suspension records of every college football team they could find.

So I went ahead and chronicled, to the best of knowledge, which games were illegally played (by definition, one or both teams never should've been there due to NCAA violations later found out), etc.:

• 1999-2000:  Wisconsin and Alabama rendered the Rose and Orange illegal.
• 2000-2001:  Washington and Rick Neuheisel rendered THAT season's Rose Bowl illegal -- made notes on Miami and Notre Dame.
• 2001-2002:  Colorado rendered the Fiesta illegal, Miami and the Nevin Shapiro case started just before the Rose Bowl/that year's BCS title game, rendering IT illegal.
• UPDATE:  The Shapiro case ended with NO SANCTIONS against the early-2000's Miami participation, a move roundly slammed by anyone with two operational brain cells, especially because it appears Miami people in that case had ties to the NCAA nailing USC and Reggie Bush!
• 2002-2003:  Miami for the Fiesta/Championship.
• 2003-2004:  Miami for the Orange, noted that both USC and Ohio State would get in trouble the next season.
• 2004-2005:  This year's title game is the only football championship at the BCS level to be thrown out by the NCAA due to the aforementioned Reggie Bush fiasco.  That's the only illegally played game of the lot.
• 2005-2006:  Only the Fiesta was legally played, at least under 2013 sensibilities.  Sandusky threw out the Orange.  West Virginia and Rich Rodriguez illegally got to the Sugar.  And Reggie Bush again.
• 2006-2007:  That Boise-Oklahoma classic?  Illegal BOTH WAYS.  A note was made as of the writing of this post in 2013:  The Orange Bowl between Louisville and Wake Forest was the only BCS game at all ever contested between two football programs never sanctioned (to that point!) at the probation level or above.
• 2007-2008:  The Fiesta was illegally played with West Virginia.  And Kansas never should've been allowed in the Orange.  Note was made that, though USC was in the title game, they had not yet been investigated or sanctioned for the Bush fiasco.
• 2008-2009:  The Rose Bowl was a complete sham (USC vs. Pedo State), Alabama was under another different investigation involving their entire athletic program of the era -- sixteen different sports.  National champion Florida should've been stripped of it's title for complete inability to control the criminal gang masquerading as a football team, and their opponents (Oklahoma) shouldn't have gotten there either due to penalties which should've been imposed from the 2006-2007 fouls.
• 2009-2010:  The complete nadir of the BCS.  NONE of the five games played that year should have been played as matched up.  

1. Rose:  Terrelle Pryor and Ohio State never should've seen the Rose Bowl.  The NCAA ruled the 2009-2010 Oregon team illegal as well, so both halves of that are a sham.  
2. Sugar:  Florida was an uncontrolled band of rapists and criminals, Cincinnati had violations, but quite small in comparison to most of these.  
3. Fiesta:  Boise.
4. Orange:  Georgia Tech's participation in the game thrown out by 2013.
5. National Championship:  Alabama should never have been allowed for the complete lack of institutional control in the second incident.

Of the ten teams to contest BCS Bowls after the 2009-2010 season -- as of the writing of the post in 2013, only TCU, Texas, and Iowa were legal -- and Cincinnati was only a smaller extent.

• 2010-2011:  The Pryor situation explodes during the interim, and Ohio State should've been thrown out of the Sugar Bowl, at which point Wisconsin's place in the Rose Bowl becomes illegal by construction:  Remove Ohio State from consideration, and the three-way tie in the Big Ten which gave Wisconsin the Rose Bowl bid goes to Michigan State instead on the head-to-head result between the two.  (Wisconsin, almost certainly, would've been given a legal bid to the Sugar Bowl instead had the right thing been done.)  And the National Championship that year was a COMPLETE SHAM:  An open-faced manipulation to get $Cam Newton over, including massive payments to players -- and, oh by the way, Oregon should've been gone for the same reason their 2009-2010 Rose Bowl was a sham.
• 2011-2012:  Oregon still illegal, so the Rose Bowl is a sham.  And so are the Sugar and Orange, both for fouls by Rich Rodriguez!!  And another sham BCS Championship Game with both teams under probation and sane people wondering how Alabama was still allowed a football, or even athletic, program...
• 2012-2013:  Note was made per Wisconsin only being in the Rose Bowl due to Pryor and Sandusky.  And a note made as to how Northern Illinois actually got into the BCS as the non-AQ qualifier -- and also that, of all the schools to play the BCS to that date, only seven had never been sanctioned as of August 31, 2013.

I didn't intend this to be this long.  This was actually just supposed to be an introduction to doing the next six or so years, if I can find similar information.

Anyhow, I'll split this into two posts, but here you go...  You still want to think there's an OUNCE of legitimacy in big-time college football??  ANYTHING???