DolfanDaveInMI
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The BCS is a fundamentally flawed system that will once again fail to produce an undisputed national champion. The only NCAA-sponsored sport that does not have some sort of playoff or championship tournament is Div. I-A college football. Heck, Div. III football has a five-round playoff.
The best system for I-A football would be a 16-team playoff starting the third weekend in December. First two rounds on campus, semifinals and championship games rotated among neutral sites.
Current BCS formulas could be kept for purposes of selecting and seeding teams. Any conference champion ranked in the Top 25 gets an automatic berth and a high seed. The rest of the field would be filled from the next highest-ranked at-large teams, with a maximum of three teams per conference. Under the current standings, barring any upsets in the conference title games, conference champions would take seeds 1-9, with seeds 10-16 going to at-large teams. Not only does that provide an extra incentive to win your conference title, but it also allows the champions of the mid-level conferences to finally get a top-10 non-conference opponent at their place.
The way the bracket would look under this system:
(16) Florida State @ (1) USC
(9) Pittsburgh @ (8) Michigan
(12) Georgia @ (5) Boise State
(13) LSU @ (4) Utah
(14) Iowa @ (3) Auburn
(11) Texas @ (6) Louisville
(10) California @ (7) Virginia Tech/Miami winner
(15) Virginia Tech/Miami loser @ (2) Oklahoma
If conferences and cities want to work their own deals for meaningless end-of-season exhibition games involving other teams, that is their prerogative. But we deserve to have the college football national champion settled on the field, and because the current bowl and BCS structure gets in the way of that more often than not, it needs to go away.
The best system for I-A football would be a 16-team playoff starting the third weekend in December. First two rounds on campus, semifinals and championship games rotated among neutral sites.
Current BCS formulas could be kept for purposes of selecting and seeding teams. Any conference champion ranked in the Top 25 gets an automatic berth and a high seed. The rest of the field would be filled from the next highest-ranked at-large teams, with a maximum of three teams per conference. Under the current standings, barring any upsets in the conference title games, conference champions would take seeds 1-9, with seeds 10-16 going to at-large teams. Not only does that provide an extra incentive to win your conference title, but it also allows the champions of the mid-level conferences to finally get a top-10 non-conference opponent at their place.
The way the bracket would look under this system:
(16) Florida State @ (1) USC
(9) Pittsburgh @ (8) Michigan
(12) Georgia @ (5) Boise State
(13) LSU @ (4) Utah
(14) Iowa @ (3) Auburn
(11) Texas @ (6) Louisville
(10) California @ (7) Virginia Tech/Miami winner
(15) Virginia Tech/Miami loser @ (2) Oklahoma
If conferences and cities want to work their own deals for meaningless end-of-season exhibition games involving other teams, that is their prerogative. But we deserve to have the college football national champion settled on the field, and because the current bowl and BCS structure gets in the way of that more often than not, it needs to go away.