College Football: BCS Vs. Playoff System
More Money or a Real Championship
All of the major sports in the U.S. employ some sort of playoff system. I believe that NCAA basketball has the best playoff, a tournament, to decide its champion. At the end of the regular season in the middle of March, sixty-five teams have a chance to win the national championship. That month alone is pure bliss for any college basketball fan. It is also a great example of wonderfully functioning playoff system.
Of course, basketball does not generate nearly as much money as football does, and the BCS is money making, fine-tuned machine. That is the only thing it does well. Picking a champion it does not. Since its inception in 1998, the Bowl Championship Series has conducted the national championship featuring its top two rated teams. Figuring out the top two teams has always posed a problem. In 2003, Lousiana State University and Oklahoma University played in the Nokia Sugar Bowl for the National Championship. Oklahoma lost its last game, the Big XII Championship falling to 10-1. The University of Southern California was also 10-1 and was rated number 2 in the polls, but Oklahoma still had more points in the BCS polls and they went on to New Orleans instead of USC. LSU ended up beating OU anyway and they were the BCS champions. USC won the Rose Bowl too, so the two teams split the national title. They SHARED the title. What a system.
This occurred again in 2004. Three teams finished the regular season undefeated. Auburn University, USC, and Oklahoma were all undefeated. The polls decided that USC and Oklahoma should play for the title. Many thought that was because it was what everyone wanted to see. It was the blockbuster match up. Therefore, Auburn was left out. They won their BCS game along with USC, but the championship was not shared this year. UCS was the outright champion.
Before the BCS, polls were the deciding factors in determining who plays for the title and who does not. Polls??!! Why not PLAYERS??!! The whole polling system should be scrapped. Players are the ones who are supposed o decide everything, not writers. A playoff system is in order. The polls can help decide the seeding of a tournament, and a single elimination tourney will decide the champion. Schools worried about students missing classes do not have to worry. Players usually get most of December off anyway, because only bowl games are played throughout the month. The top 16 teams in the polls can duke it out. It could be modeled after the NCAA basketball tournament. College Football could use a selection process much like in college basketball, to determine the 16 teams and their seeding. Of course, money is the real goal of the BCS, and that is the only thing that the BCS gets right. I hope that one day, the NCAA will run the whole show and take the blinders off it eyes and the avarice will cease. A playoff system is the best thing for college football.
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The frustrating part is that this can easily be fixed and made into an 8 team playoff.
first...go back to the old bowl system. 4 major bowls...each conf champion goes to a major bowl and then 2 at large teams.
second...each team that wins there major bowl game would advance to a final 4....but it would need to be 2 separate venues.
third...the 2 final 4 winners would then play in a championship game.
With this system....there is no way that more money would not be generated. The bowl people should be very happy...they still get there new years bowl and its actually a playoff game.
The only drawback is that you extend the season into January for a few extra teams.
Every year the same thing, the best football teams get left out of the national championship. I still can't believe people stand for this nonsense. It's the only sport that is decided by what someone thinks instead of what someone does. There is no true champion as long as the bcs system is deciding things. Every year i watch the games up until bowl weekend then i don't bother to watch the bowl games because they are meaningless. If everyone did this they would go to a playoff system like every other sport and stop the stupidity. But as long as people watch the bowl games and feed big money to the greedy little imps that peek out of the holes at the tops of stadiums you won't ever know how bad TCU or Boise would have beaten the "National Champion". What a joke.
each team has 8 games the remaining games are set up by the BCS with the top 30 teams. imagine the games we would have the for the rest of the season . the ratings would go thru the roof as everyone waited to see who was playing next sat.if two teems could go thru a schedual like that there be no questions who was 1&2.there wouldnt be they didnt play anyone dont get rid of the BCS just start it earlier in the season.
keep it the same. you have a playoff system with 8 teams. say 4 are undefeated and 5 are one loss teams.. one team is left out and they are mad. no matter what the system is there will always be critism
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BCS sucks!!!!!!!!!!!
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drop the bcs and get playoffs to make it fair
They definitly need a playoff system MIchigan ot Jipped in 07