Just A Thought

Just a little thought of mine as a college sport fan (more like Penn State fan). BCS in college football is NOT WORKING!! The purpose of the BCS system is to pick top 2 teams to play for the national title and to avoid co-champions. First of all, there have been co-national champions since BCS was invented (when USC won the AP title). Next, no one seems to figure out who the top 2 teams are. Let's say the season ended today. Florida should be ranked number one. No justification necessary. But who's number two? It should come down to all the one loss teams and 3 undefeated teams outside the BCS conference (Utah, Ball State, Boise State). It's impossible. Third, the worst things is that teams like Utah will never get a chance to play for the national title after going 12-0.

So, here's my thought. 1)Pick 8 teams in the final ranking and do the play-offs. 2)Give automatic bids to teams who've won their own conference and who are ranked top 10 in the final ranking regardless of conferences that they are in. 3)At-large bids go to schools ranked high in the ranking.

Let's say there will be no upsets the rest of the season and Florida and Texas both win the conference title games. The final ranking will look like....1)Florida 2)Texas 3)Oklahoma 4)USC 5)Alabama 6)Utah 7)Texas Tech 8)Penn State 9)Boise State 10)Ohio State. The conference champions in the top 10 gets an automatic bid which includes 1)Florida 2)Texas 6)Utah 8)Penn State and 9)Boise State. This leaves 3 spots for at-large bids. If you pick the top 3 teams left out, it will be 3)Oklahoma 4)USC and 5)Alabama. There may still be an argument saying that Texas Tech deserves to be in it. But this way, almost all the undefeated and one loss teams will at least get a chance to play for the title. They can add 2 more bowl games for the semifinals or they can keep that withing the BCS bowls and play the semis, who cares. Plus, students do not have to take a month break from football. Even high schools have a play-off system. Why not in D-I A? D-I AA does it too.

How fun would this be?? It's a lot easier to pick top 8 than top 2, isn't it? There is too much money involved in this BCS thing. If this is all about money and not about student athletes, it is really really sad. I'd rather see traditional BigTen vs Pac10 champs Rose Bowl.