BCS: The Bull Crap System

Yes, I am back after a long, long layoff. I was being lazy and being just not into writing for some days....but I'm ready to write for his New Year.

First off, the topic which really is annoying to say the least, and one reason that keeps me from becoming a true college football fan, and that is the BCS.

Recently it seems that a lot of people, the public and the media in general, have been pushing for a playoff system that would settle any controversies based on the BCS Championship game. For the last 8 years we have had a system that only puts in the top conference schools into these bowl games, leaving out the mid-majors and other smaller conferences who have had teams go undefeated in the regular season.

This year's case, Boise State, went undefeated and beat a major conference school, Oklahoma. They got into a BCS bowl, BUT not the championship game. In the meantime, Florida is in with one loss, and as in many people's eyes, do not deserve that second seed. Many excuses are being put into place for negating a playoff system. I'm sure sponsors and the major conferences are crying foul, because the Bowls are very lucrative. These one off games are cash cows for these conferences. The too many games argument is a joke. So NCAA basketball playing a playoff system for the national championship is too many games when you have played almost 30 games by the season's end?

Granted that football is a different sport, but I can't understand why football is being treated differently from the other NCAA sports which pretty much have a playoff system for determining a champion.

What's even more so unfair is the system in which the BCS determines who goes into the bowl games. Automatic bids for the top conference champions is a joke within itself. What's even worse is that with the BCS having 5 bowls, you would think the top 10 BCS ranked teams would make the Bowls. Not so. Auburn and Wisconsin were left out, and in were Wake Forest and Notre Dame. Reading through the procedures on who and how, it's a pity to understand that the top conference schools are basically rewarding themselves these bowl games, and ignoring the lesser teams. A non-conference school, yet classical powerhouse Notre Dame, has been given some leeway into the BCS Bowls.

I do agree that Ohio State does deserve to be in the championship game this year, but they should not be playing Florida. If a playoff system was in place, I would think you could at least take the top 4-8 teams from the BCS rankings (although the ranking points are controversial) and go from there.

Knowing that Big Ten boss Jim Delaney is the mastermind of current BCS politics, the playoff systems seems to be a remote possibility.