BCS

The BCS is ridiculous.

For those of you that don't know, BCS stands for Bowl Championship Series. It is the current system that college football uses to determine a national champion. Two-thirds of this system uses the old age tradition of voting, and one-third is a computer formula. For the most part I have no problem with this. However, instead of using the system to determine seeding in a playoff, (like how they vote for the 65 teams to play in March Madness) they use the system to only give the "top two" teams a chance for the title. Some years the "top two" can be fairly clear, or at least the #1 spot can be. But usually, and especially this year, many teams have the argument to be in the "top two". I'm sure by now you can see how many people are upset when their team is left out either because some formula doesn't favor them, or more likely, people voting don't like them.

The only legitimate way to fix this controversy is to have a playoff. College football is the ONLY sport (college, pro, or otherwise) that doesn't have a playoff system. I mean think about it...it is ridiculous to vote on who is the best team. There is absolutely zero integrity with voting on a champion. Just let the teams settle it on the field.

Or maybe we should do away with playoffs altogether. We should just vote at the end of every season on who is the best NFL, NBA, college basketball, MLB, etc. team out there. Yeah right. It's obvious that sounds ridiculous! So logically, not having a playoff for college football is ridiculous as well. If I were LSU, I could not honestly say to myself, "We are the best team in college football because we just won the 'National Championship' game that we got voted into." All LSU has proven is that they are better than OSU. What about USC or WV? They both dominated their bowl games against Big Ten and Big 12 schools. Especially WV, they creamed an Oklahoma team that people were trying to argue should have been in the N.C. game. Or what about Mizzou, Georgia, or Kansas? Sure, people are gonna argue that Kansas hasn't played enough good teams. But they finished 1-1 against two top ten teams. And people will say that Mizzou lost to OU twice, but they trounced Arkansas, who by they way, beat LSU. Sure, Georgia didn't win their conference, or even their division, but that's never stopped a team in March Madness from winning it all before has it? I could go on and on...

Almost no matter who you argue for or against...with no playoff we'll never know for sure.

FYI - There was a 17% decline in ratings for this years N.C. game. Looks like I may not be the only one losing interest in the bowl system.