The current system in College Football needs a change. Currently, the system is that the BCS (Bowl Championship Series) rankings decide who goes to the top 5 bowl games at the end of the season. The rankings decide who plays for the championship and 4 other highly publicized games. However, it annually angers fans of the sport. The reason is because the system always leaves a team either out of the championship or out of the BCS bowl games that fans consider to be deserving of a spot.
This year was of course no exception. The BCS left out Texas from the finals by 0.0181 BCS ranking percentage points points. Now they are out of a shot to play for the title. They also left out Boise State, who had a perfect season from any BCS games. Boise St.'s spot was given to Ohio St. because Ohio St. is from a bigger conference, despite Ohio St. being down .06 BCS ranking percentage points to Boise St. Boise St. did went undefeated this year. What more could they have done? They deserve at least a shot at the title for their efforts. Whatever happened to the idea that anyone can win in sports, "on any given sunday" (or Saturday in college football)? Why was Texas left out of the title game despite being tied with in record (and beating head-to-head) Oklahoma. This system has angered fans for too long and needs to be changed. Here's what I suggest:
Why should the contenders for the National Championship be decided on by a computer average of polls? This is never true in any other sport. All other major sports have a tournament or a playoff of some kind, not just one game. There are rankings used in college basketball to decide who plays in the tournament, but not who plays in the finals. There should be a playoff system in college football.
Let us shorten the season to 10 games long. Eliminate some of the games that are non-conference and non-rivarly. After the 10 games, the top 24 ranked teams are chosen to play in the top tournament. The 9-24th ranked teams play eachother to decide the top 16. Then the top 16 play an elimination-style tournament to decide the winner. The next top 32 teams will be selected into an NIT type of tournament just as in college basketball to play an elimination-style tournament. This would garuntee undefeated teams a chance for the title and have the most deserving teams playing. It would also be quite croud pleasing. No longer would the BCS have nearly as much contreversy because the bottom teams would be much farther away from probable contention as Texas is today.
I was pleased to see a similar plan supported by our president-elect:
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