We couldn't get through a year of college football without a heated debate about the BCS vs. a playoff system and this year is no different. This year that one unlucky team that got left out is TCU who went 12-0 but never had a chance of being invited to the BCS Championship Game in Glendale because of all the factors working against them such as their weak conference schedule and their starting position in the BCS rankings. I am a huge college basketball fan and there isn't a better time of year than March Madness. 68 teams (don't ask me about that 96 team tournament thing or I'll get really mad) come together and play a tournament where anything can happen and teams like Butler can become a national sensation. College football doesn't have that and they never will. Bowl season lacks the suspense and the fun that college basketball brings to the table.
Starting on the 18th, bowl season will be off an running and it will last nearly a month, but the funny thing is only three days really matter. Nobody cares about the GoDaddy.com Bowl or the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. There are plenty of pointless bowl games and it has become so watered down that its really not even fun anymore. Boise State lost one game to this season to Nevada and because of that they weren't invited to a BCS bowl. Instead they will be playing in the Las Vegas Bowl...how prestigious. I also read that in Sports Illustrated this past week that Nevada cost each WAC school 1,000,000 dollars by beating Boise State because, had the Broncos made a BCS bowl, they would have earned roughly 10 million dollars for the conference which would have been divided evenly. So to me, Nevada punished themselves for winning a game. How dumb is that?
If I ruled college football there would be a playoff system of 16 teams like many have suggested. It makes more sense to give the top 16 teams a fair shot at the title rather than telling 14 teams to go play in another bowl with no reward except pride. Take Virginia Tech for example: they stumbled twice at the beginning of the year and never had a chance to be mentioned for the championship game but they reeled off 11 wins in a row and are playing some really good football. College football doesn't know the term "Cinderella" and that's because they don't allow themselves to. There is rarely a chance for the small school to beat the big school in a postseason game but in college basketball that is all the rage.
It's amazing how every professional sport and college sport has a playoff system but college football can't seem to figure it out. I hope they do soon though because teams will keep getting cheated year after year and the computers will decide teams fates unfairly. The game is supposed to be played on the field...why not let the athletes decide it out there?
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