Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Finding the True National Champion.
Everyone's thinking it. Everyone's talking about it. Now, with two non-BCS conference teams undefeated, vying for a spot to play for the National Championship, it's about time people start listening. College football needs to abandon the BCS. It needs to institute a tournament to determine the national champion. The real national champion. Right now, all the college football teams play and, at the end of the season, a computer uses random calculations to decide who plays for the national championship. Two teams. Naturally, it picks the biggest name schools (Oregon, Auburn) from the biggest conferences (Big 10, Big 12, SEC, etc). I'm not saying that these teams are undeserving, they are sensational football teams. But what about the other teams, the ones from smaller conferences? Teams like Boise State and TCU? For all of this year and last, neither of those teams has lost a regular season game. Boise has won 22 in a row. And yet they never get to play for all the marbles. Boise and TCU could win every game they play, and have their season end, without playing for anything with any meaning. College football is the only sport or league in which a team can keep winning but stop playing. This needs to change. I'm not saying that I know how to do it, just that someone should. The BCS is deciding for us who the best team in the country is, and we, as fans, want these teams to play each other to find out for real. We need a college football playoff. Seriously: president's orders.
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But this would take a LOT of time. The basketball final four takes about 3 weeks, right? And teams often play with only a day or two off in between games. Football teams really need a week to recover. Think how long the playoffs would have to be. With only 16 teams, you're talking 4 extra weeks. And at 64 teams, you're talking a month and a half. And is it really worth it?
ReplyDeleteshorten the regular season a few weeks. play the conference championship games so that there can be an ACC champion, etc. No conference should get a buy-in. Take the best 8 teams in the country (that's where ranking could get really controversial, though, so I'm not sure) and have them play a tournament to decide the champion.
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