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The BCS Format For College Football
By Steve Levy of Planet Berry LLC
Almost every sport spanning the globe has a rite of passage. A crowning of a champion or team that not only excels at what they do but earns the right to be called 'the champion" by a process. That process is usually determined on their field of play or competition. Like I said, almost every sport allows for this and demands this of the participating teams up front. Let's venture over to my favorite sport. College Football. This is a sport that has been second in popularity (America) only to the NFL. It has multiple divisions to allow for fair and equal competition. Yet, in it's main "Tent" or Division One they let sports writers determine the true champion. They let computers try and balance out the emotions of the Eastern dominated writer pool to create a fairness result in the vote. Oh, did I mention that in the NCAA Division Two they do have a Real playoff system? The Division One schools devised a Bowl Championship Series in an effort to stimulate the game and try and reach a more precise crowning and naming of an annual champion. Yet they decided to leave out the very thing that would have resulted in a True Champion. A Playoff System. This BCS organization has built up a voting system paralleled by a computer ranking system. So what do the smart schools do? They don't schedule the tough teams. They schedule as many Division Two schools as they can and then come out of each season averaging 70 points a game and stick their chests out to the Eastern based writers and show them how tough they are. In fact, the writers have all but solidified the SEC as the conference of champions and they shouldn't even have to play anyone else because they are so tough in conference. In 2009 the LSU Tigers played an opening game in the State of Washington (A PAC 10 school). Did anyone know that this was the first time the LSU Tigers had to fly to a game? They had never traveled beyond the comforts of their own home conference which means they only compete with Div 2 schools or their SEC rivals. Oh and they only schedule four road games vs. eight home games. Fair? Competitive? The BCS needs to rethink everything. They need to establish a minimum 8 Team playoff system stemming from the existing Bowl Games and go from there. Force teams (in order to qualify) to schedule Div One teams only and they must have a minimum number of Top 30 schools on their schedule. If we get to this level then perhaps we can all raise a glass to the True Champions of College Football one day soon |
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