BCS Reforms

Utah 12-0. Texas 12-1, Oklahoma 12-1, Florida 12-1. All are good teams, yet only 2 teams get a shot at the national championship every year, selected by computer algorithms and personal and professional judgments by coaches and sportswriters. Certainly there has to be a better way at making this happen. While I understand that a playoff system is not realistic and would disturb the bowl system we currently have in place, I have come up with a few ideas to reform this broken system.

#1 - Add a 5th BCS Bowl

A fifth BCS Bowl would allow more teams from mid-major conferences to have a shot at making a BCS bowl (and all the money that goes with it). It would also allow teams that were #3 in there conference, but ranked in the top 5 or 10 to have a shot at getting into a BCS bowl and not being passed by someone who doesn't deserve a BCS slot. I propose that the 5th BCS Bowl be the Cotton Bowl, played at the new Texas Stadium, and that this BCS bowl NOT have an automatic conference champion.

#2 - Bring in a plus one system

Having 10 teams in BCS games helps diversify the playing field for teams attempting a shot at the national championship. I would eliminate the five losing teams, narrowing it down to the winners. I would then have the writers and BCS system rank the remaining teams, and the top two get into the championship. This would help reduce bias and favortism somewhat, and after each team playing a BCS game, it will be pretty obvious who is worthy of playing for the national championship.

#3 - Reduce the number of nonconference games

Nonconference games serve no purpose other than to give the mid-major or 1-AA school some playing time and attention they normally would not get. They help inflate the winning records of schools to make them look better (4-0 playing nonconference opponents is not the same as 4-0 playing schools in your region). We need to make our schedules tough, from beginning to finish, and not an easy street for the first month of play.