There is something that is so cathartic about watching a college football game. These young players are either playing to have a chance to make large money in the NFL or they are playing for the pure love of the game.
What could be the one thing that screws this perfect environment up? An imperfect system that determines which two schools play for the national championship.
I have a resolution to this mess that is fairly simple, as a matter of fact, I have two different submissions to my local newspaper (at the time) that states how we can put an end to the debacle that is the BCS.
Conference champions from the "Big 6" power conferences have an automatic bid to the playoffs. On top of that, the two best at large teams have the last two spots. What does that mean? The following conferences will be represented every year in the playoffs.
Big East, ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac 10. There is a caveat with this scenario. The Pac 10 and the Big 10 have to grow up and have a conference championship game. The other two at large spots could be taken up by any other non BCS conference teams that are undefeated. At this point it would be Utah and Boise State that take these last two spots.
Rankings with regard to strength of schedule could factor into the seeding of the playoff teams. That is as far as a computer should come into the decision making process. The sites of the national championship game should change every year, as it currently does so that everyone around the country can have a chance to see a championship game.
If the playoffs were to start today, the teams in the tournament would be as follows:
Big 12 (Texas Tech/Missouri winner), Sec (Alabama/Florida winner), ACC (Wake Forest/Virginia Tech winner), Big East (Pittsburgh/Cincinnati winner), Big 10 (Michigan St,/Penn St. winner), Pac 10 (Oregon State/USC winner), Boise State and Utah. Who gets left out? Ball State, currently ranked 14 in the country, but a really bad strength of schedule. Other potential obstacles? Notre Dame, Navy, Army and Western Kentucky do not currently have conference affiliations, they are independents. They too need to grow up and join a conference.
Please be advised that all of the games in parenthesis are conference championship games. They of course have to happen before final seedings would be determined.
If you have trouble following my suggestion, go ahead and go to http://www.rivlas.com/ and see what the current components are to the computer ranking system that accounts for 1/3 of the final BCS rankings. This will seem like a piece of cake.
Oh, just one last thing. The bowl system as it stands today would not be affected by this system. They can still have these games for the also-rans just like they do today.
Ahhh............ the beauty of all of the BCS computers hard drives crashing at the same time.
What could be the one thing that screws this perfect environment up? An imperfect system that determines which two schools play for the national championship.
I have a resolution to this mess that is fairly simple, as a matter of fact, I have two different submissions to my local newspaper (at the time) that states how we can put an end to the debacle that is the BCS.
Conference champions from the "Big 6" power conferences have an automatic bid to the playoffs. On top of that, the two best at large teams have the last two spots. What does that mean? The following conferences will be represented every year in the playoffs.
Big East, ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac 10. There is a caveat with this scenario. The Pac 10 and the Big 10 have to grow up and have a conference championship game. The other two at large spots could be taken up by any other non BCS conference teams that are undefeated. At this point it would be Utah and Boise State that take these last two spots.
Rankings with regard to strength of schedule could factor into the seeding of the playoff teams. That is as far as a computer should come into the decision making process. The sites of the national championship game should change every year, as it currently does so that everyone around the country can have a chance to see a championship game.
If the playoffs were to start today, the teams in the tournament would be as follows:
Big 12 (Texas Tech/Missouri winner), Sec (Alabama/Florida winner), ACC (Wake Forest/Virginia Tech winner), Big East (Pittsburgh/Cincinnati winner), Big 10 (Michigan St,/Penn St. winner), Pac 10 (Oregon State/USC winner), Boise State and Utah. Who gets left out? Ball State, currently ranked 14 in the country, but a really bad strength of schedule. Other potential obstacles? Notre Dame, Navy, Army and Western Kentucky do not currently have conference affiliations, they are independents. They too need to grow up and join a conference.
Please be advised that all of the games in parenthesis are conference championship games. They of course have to happen before final seedings would be determined.
If you have trouble following my suggestion, go ahead and go to http://www.rivlas.com/ and see what the current components are to the computer ranking system that accounts for 1/3 of the final BCS rankings. This will seem like a piece of cake.
Oh, just one last thing. The bowl system as it stands today would not be affected by this system. They can still have these games for the also-rans just like they do today.
Ahhh............ the beauty of all of the BCS computers hard drives crashing at the same time.
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