BCS sucks!! Gimmee Playoffs already!!
 

Every year around this time I get pissed off about the bowl system. The BCS is a joke and the NCAA needs to do something about it. You don't see the NFL have some other entity running their post season games?? How could you not make more money with a 16 team playoff?

Here's the first round match-ups of a 16 team playoff based on this years BCS standings:

How awesome would this be?


1. Ohio State
16. Tennessee (how delicious is this? - Buckeyes get POUNDED in the first round)

8. Kansas
9. West Virginia

5. Georgia
12. Florida (anybody care to watch the winner of this game play Oklahoma in Round 2?? Ya, me too.)

4. Oklahoma
13. Illinois


6. Missouri (jeez - how bout this game!)
11. Arizona State

3. Virginia Tech (Tied up at 1 - 1)
14. Boston College

7. USC (OK Hawaii - lets see what you got)
10. Hawaii

2. LSU (How many Millions of people would watch a LSU/USC match up)
15. Clemson

All the "little bowls" could host first and second round games - which would be awesome for them. Wouldn't the Sun Bowl prefer Ohio State v Tennessee over Oregon/South Florida?

So sad these BCS fucktards cant figure out how to split up the money.

I couldn't agree with you more! Some good teams got snubbed by the Bullshit Championship Series again!

It would make sense, but it won't happen. It's like the whole 9/11 conspiracy thing, everyone talks about it but it's just lives in our imagination.

Hahaha Keep dreaming.

You'd have to stack all the SEC teams in the same side of the bracket to face each other early on, because otherwise you have 3 or 4 SEC teams in the semifinals, and the BIG 10 would never go for that.

it sucks - stupid schools and NCAA - an 8 team playoff would be fucking huge money - and it would extend the season for two schools by at most a couple of weeks.

as if any of these schools really care about the educations of Division 1 athletes.

It will happen someday... we just need more writers in the media to expose the BCS for what it is


John Feinstein makes a compelling case in the Washington Post that college football gets it wrong by not crowning a "true" national champion.

"Every single reasonable person in the country knows the BCS is the single worst creation there is in sports. It is the creation of a group of selfish, money-mongering college presidents who couldn't care less about what is best for the so-called student-athletes, couldn't care less about the fans who go to the games and, most of all, couldn't care less about fairness.

Unfortunately, that's the way it usually works. As Adam Smith wrote in The Weath of Nations, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends up in a conspiracy against the public..." Feinstein makes a Pete-Rozelle-like proposal that BCS schools should relinquish some power in order to generate even more revenue:

"'Show Me the Money' is and has been the mantra of the BCS school presidents forever. What's both sad and ironic is that these over-educated, self-important frauds would actually make more money for their schools if they were willing to give up just a little bit of the absolute power they currently wield."

Feinstein suggests a major showdown:

"All [NCAA president Myles] Brand has to do is use his influence as the NCAA president to get the non-BCS presidents to vote on one simple amendment to the NCAA charter: If a school wishes to participate in one NCAA-sanctioned tournament, it must participate in all NCAA-sanctioned tournaments."

While most of us would like to see some kind of college football playoff system, it is doubtful that college presidents and athletic directors at BCS schools would willingly pass over more power to the NCAA. If the NCAA insists on grabbing control of college football, BCS schools might respond by threatening to pull its schools out of the NCAA basketball tournament, which would be unfortunate. The best Dr. Brand can do is work to convince BCS members that it is in everyone's interest to work together.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...=news-col-blog