The BCS system is a joke that isn’t funny anymore. The NCAA and BCS schools simply must adopt a playoff system.
Written by randomfool on January 9th, 2007 with
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I didn’t even bother watching the national championship game last night and I am happy about that choice. Now that Florida is the national champion, it has become even more obvious that a playoff system is needed in NCAA college football. The primary reason I don’t watch college football is because the outcome of the games is judged by a vote and, lately, a computer formula. Every other major college sport has a playoff but the BCS schools, it seems, in the name of protecting study time for their “student athletes” and to protect the tradition of the bowl games. First of all, do we really need to continue this charade that college football players (at that level anyway) are anything but professional athletes? Do they really need the month of December to study? Why is it that nobody has a problem with college basketball players traveling like they do and, for those who make it to the NCAA tournament, taking essentially a month off in March (as pointed out by John Feinstein on NPR this morning)? Second, exactly what bowl tradition are you protecting when there are so many bowl games named after sponsors that attendance has been dropping, when you have blown up the main bowl traditions for rotating BCS national championship games and when the national championship is played on January 8th?
The issue of taking time off from school is retarded and I just ignore it. The issue of bowl traditions could still be upheld, in fact far better than the BCS system does today, and a playoff system could follow in January based on a seeding set after the bowls are played. The bowls would actually be meaningful then, a real national championship playoff could be played in January on Monday nights leading up to a national championship on the Sunday during hype week for the NFL. If the NCAA and the BCS schools are truly motivated by money (which they are), they could make so much more money and protect the sanctity of the bowl system. I just don’t understand why they don’t adopt something like this…it just makes absolutely no sense to me.
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