How to save the BCS

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I don’t know about you, but in March, the NCAA Tournament is my life. Bracket busters, big pools, the final four, it’s all good.

Although basketball’s success has been great lately, college football seems to be lagging behind.

One may be able to make the case that NCAA Basketball is more popular than the NBA, but there are only a few select individuals who lift NCAA Football over the NFL.

This is all mainly due to big controversies since we’ve entered the 21st century, and even before that. For example, how is it possible to have a split national championship, or an undefeated team not even getting a shot at it?

That just seems crazy to me and I bet it takes interest out of the college level and into the pros where the NFL has a Superbowl champion and not too much controversy about it.

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Heck, even the IHSA has a playoff system for high school football, a level lower!

I think it’s about time NCAA Football learns a lesson from its good basketball brother. They need a playoff system. Not only would interest increase, but it would be fair and even more competitive.

Now, I’m not trashing the BCS, it’s a great computer program, but a playoff system would be simply amazing. 64 teams like basketball would be a bit excessive, but narrowing the field down to 16 is a good choice.

But who would get in? Well, it seems logical to give the 9 major conference champions a shot. A tourney bid will go to the champions of the PAC-10, WAC, MAC, Mountain West, BIG 12, BIG 10, BIG EAST, Sun Belt, C-USA, ACC, and the SEC.

That leaves 5 at large bids for some other good teams.

Here’s where keeping the BCS is important. 1st of all, the 5 at large bids will be the top 5 BCS-ranked teams who don’t already have a confrence champ bid. So now that all 16 teams are chosen, they need to be seeded.

It’s a method somewhat controversial in basketball, due to a selection by a committe, but in this football process, lets let the BCS do all the work.

Ironically, seeding teams in order of their BCS ranking actually made seeds 1–13 correspond with BCS ranked teams 1–13.

A few snuck in at the end by winning their confrence, and this gives any small D1 program hope that they can make the sweet 16.

So in this playoff system it turns out #1 USC would play #16 North Texas. It would also feature #8 Virginia Tech vs.

#9 Boise State, #4 Texas vs. #13 Michigan, #5 Cal vs. #12 Iowa, #3 Auburn vs. #14 Toledo, #6 Utah vs. #11 LSU, #7 Georgia vs. #10 Louisville and finally #2 Oklahoma vs. #15 Boston College. Then it can be determined who the real champion is!

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