First, it is better than anything that was before because you would frequently have #1 and #2 not playing in the same bowls due to the bowl tie ins before the BCS. Second, I like the controversy/debate that it stirs up every year. Third, I like that college football is unique with the bowl system. 56 teams or whatever feel pretty good about their season because they get to a bowl and 28 teams end their season as a bowl champion. Fourth, because college football does not have a playoff, the regular season is that much more important. The regular season is like a playoff.l Fifth, if there was a four team playoff. The fifth team would be complaining that they should be in the top 4 just like now the third rated team complains it should be in the top 2. Sixth, if there was an eight or larger team playoff, it would make the bowls really irrelevant other than the "bowls" played in the playoffs. And, when teams realized during the regular season that they won't finish in the top eight or whatever, their season would be over. Under the current system you just have to go .500 and you have a shot to go to a bowl and win it to finish your season as a bowl champion. Seventh, with a playoff, it would be more like 1 winner and 119 losers. The current system is like 1 big winner and thirty minor winners. Eighth, I am interested in all these games like the Hawaii during our national championship year and the West Virginia game tonight, which I normally would not care about. I guess that I am one of the very few who like the BCS, because I never hear anyone defend it. Okay, bring on the predictable hate.
I am fine with the BCS if its the ONLY National Title. Until it truly crowns the ONLY champion, where the AP is irrelevant and other bogus titles its really just the same thing as before.. Yes I am still bitter....
Leaving Florida out of the NC is terrible. We shouldn't have to choose between Michigan and Florida, and if either team should be left out, it should be Michigan by virtue of not winning their conference. The bowl games can continue independent of a playoff. All but one post-season game is nothing more than an exhibition game, a modest playoff (4-8 teams) would make more games more meaningful, while allowing the number of teams for the secondary bowls to choose from to grow by 2-4. A modest playoff wouldn't take away from the regular season. If the regular season is like a playoff, how many years does it finish incomplete, forcing us to choose worthiness based on opinion and extrapolation of data. Including all deserving teams is good. Leaving teams that shouldn't play for the NC may have some programs up in arms, but it won't be teams that have a legitmate argument. Kinda like the Arkansas game meant nothing to LSU fans? A modest playoff (max 8 teams) will be an improvement over what we have now. You would be interested in these games if there were a playoff as well. Every game will still matter and there will be a great deal of drama/uncertainty, even with a playoff. Having to choose between deserving teams, which deserving team is in and which out, is disgraceful. It is BS. It was BS for USC, Auburn, and if Florida is left out, then it is BS for Florida. It is not at all right and I hope Florida gives the BCS the best FU it can.
I guess if you want a playoff system within the BCS, you simply have to pit the top-10 teams against each other. Of course, you'd have to ensure ranking integrity, and there would be no reward for playing in the tougest conference in America, unless the polls somehow considered that. The whole thing is perfect imperfection.
I prefer a 4 team playoff. Injuries could swing a 8 team playoff in a dog's favor. As I posted in another thread: I would argue that the bcs works. It just works poorly. Take a look at the NC every year since the bcs started. I believe, and I think most people would, that the best team won the bsc trophy. It could be much better, but it works better than the old system.
One thing if UF gets screwed, the SEC MUST take issue with two out of three years a clearly more rigerous schedule plus being an SEC champ and the SEC get screwed by clearly weaker conferences. Its time for the SEC to complain about SEC teams playing title games, tougher schedules yet consistently being screwed.. And dont give me our National Title year. We were #2 in ALL three polls the issue was between USC and OU not us.
When deserving teams are left out, I can't allow myself to say it works. It is better than the traditional system, but having to choose between two deserving teams is a joke. Injuries in an 8 team playoff may be a consideration. But leaving out Boise St this year is something I disagree with.
Well, if you had a 8 team playoff, who are the 8 teams. I could see controversy that might be involved in that. For instance, if LSU was in the 8 team playoff but Auburn would be left out. There would be controversy just like the current system. Auburn fans would say LSU and Auburn both have two SEC losses, but Auburn beat LSU head-to-head and finish ahead of LSU in the West, technically. You still have voters and computers deciding who is seventh and eighth and who is ninth and tenth. I know that arguement could be made with the current system. I am just saying that I can't say that LSU is definitely better than Auburn. I can't say that Ohio State or any other team would beat LSU head-to-head though either. With 120 teams so separated by conference and only 8 of those teams getting in. You'd still have human polls and computers picking who has a chance to play for the national championship. You still could have undefeated non-BCS schools possibly left out of the chance to play for the national championship in a playoff. You still have the same strength of a one or two loss team in a conference like the SEC v. a conference like the Big East. If we are going to a playoff, I think all conferences should have to go to approximately 16 teams and a conference championship game. You have 8 conferences and everyone has to be in a conference. You rearrange the conferences regionally and as equally as possible. Like the same number of Tulane quality teams and the same number of LSU quality teams as much as possible. Then, you have an eight team playoff of the 8 conference champions. Every five years the conferences get rearranged as some programs improve and others get worse to keep the conferences equal. That would be the fair way to decide a national championship on the field. That woud get rid of the polls both human and computer, but I would still rather the BCS than that. I like the BCS and all the bowls. I like that so many teams can end their season feeling good, and so many teams feel like they have a shot to go to a bowl during the season. I don't know if I care that much who is #1 at the end of the season. I mean I would like for LSU to be #1 but in the end it is arbitrary. It comes down to one game which can come down to luck, official mistakes, one team that is better than the other having a bad day.
