We have to start this somewhere, so I figured why not here? The powers that be continue to make one bad decision after another. It’s time for a playoff in college football to decide who is the national champion, just like in basketball folks!! If you agree, sign in here.
What? Who? Huh?
Always get a kick out of the phrase they use…. the computer generated results are in and…..
I just envision 5 old fat guys smoking cigars in some office tower in New York tossing darts at a board.
Gary,
BCS = Bowl Championship Series.
ok, I get it now, he edited his post.
I propose an eight team playoff at the end of the college football season. The eight teams in the playoff will be the top eight teams in the country. It doesn’t matter who won what conference, the top ranked eight teams, period. Now, the only problem with this is that the same argument we had this year about who #2 was(Florida and Michigan), would happen next year about who is #8, but so be it. There would be two games on the first weekend #1 against #8, and #2 against #7. The following weekend #3 vs #6 and #4 vs #5. Winners play the very next saturday, the next saturday is a week off, then the national championship the following weekend. What a way to end the college football season.
They got it right……….the coaches voted Florida #2.
Michigan did not win their conference.
Michigan did not beat Ohio State head to head.
As they say, “Want to be the man, beat the man.” 
Wanna be mad at somebody? Be mad at USC for gagging that game away. 
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They got it right……….the coaches voted Florida #2.
Yes they got right again.
Michigan only lost by three points to Ohio AT Ohio. Let them play at a neutral site and it would be a much better game than Florida vs. OSU will be. The least they could do would be to have Florida play Michigan and the winner of that plays Ohio. Florida is not the second best team in the country. All year it was OSU, Michigan, and USC at the top of the polls. They were 15 percentage points ahead of 4th place. Michigan lost once all year, on the road to the number one team in the country. Now, i’m no Michigan fan, I like Notre Dame. But Michigan deserves another shot.
No matter what you do, it will not be fair to some team or other. Everyone has valid points but no single answer will ever satisfy everyone. You could extend the playoff scenario until next spring and still not have a concensus on who is tne champ. Maybe it should be the best 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 5. Maybe it should only be the top 4, 8 or 10 teams, then how do you decide whom to include? The system they have now works, is it fair? Not necessarily but what would be? Is it really that important to determine who the Nat champion is? What about all the injuries sustained by the playing of extra games to determine the champ? I guess I am happy to be able to watch some real football instead of what the NFL is ramming down our throats.
I agree, don’t change a thing. If you go to an eight team playoff for example, they’ll fight over who’s #8 and #9, not to mention who are 2-7. I liked all the bowl games on one day, I do like the Nat’l Championship on its own day in primetime, however. Last year’s game was awesome. 
Might not be real fair but nothing we can do to change it. It’s big money. Just watched a show on fox about it. I also like watching all the bowl games unless its nice enough to be on river.
As I and others have stated on the other post about the Bogus Championship Series, a step in the right direction would be to add one additional game after the bowl games. Set up two bowl games so you have 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. Then, a week after the bowl games, have the championship game between the winners of the two top 4 games.
Granted, you will still have the same amount of complaining regarding teams 5, 6, 7, and probably 8. There will be people from their camps that feel they should be in the top 4. If you had the top 112 teams in a playoff, team 113 would be complaining that they should have gotten in. You will NEVER get a system that solves everything, but the BCS doesn’t solve ANYTHING.
I vote to leave the bowls in place and add the +1 game. At least you would get a 4 team playoff so to speak and all the bowls would still generate all the money they do now.
M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A, they always get screwed out of the National Championship…………… 
I don’t agree with the outcome but I know one thing, it’s been a while since Florida has been embarrased in an national championship game! When my beloved Huskers dismantled the then No. 2 Florida at the end of the ’95 season in the Fiesta Bowl , 62-24, it was enteraining to watch Spurrier pulling out his hair, screaming and shreading hats.
While I am not a Big Ten fan, I will be cheering for a complete blow-out so that we can point to the BCS officials and ask – was this the hype you tried to create? As for the rest of the super BCS games: Michigan should stomp USC, ND vs. LSU – why are either of these teams in a BCS? Wake Forest vs. Louisville??? If these are division I A schools how about playing a schedule that reflects it? I think I will clean the house instead. Boise State vs. Oklahoma – I look for a lop sided Oklahoma victory.
It’s certainly not right this year so the outcomes should add lots of fuel to the fire!
The chairman of the BCS is the SEC commisioner! Something sounds fishy there. This system is not great but I like it better than when there was not a championship game at all. Didnt the Huskers get screwed by in the AP poll for a championship one year?
Or was it the Huskers that did the screwin?
There are five BCS games each year. Seven of those spots go automatically to conference winners and the other three go out as at large bids. To garner those at large bids you must be in the top 12 of the BCS rankings and have at least nine wins I believe. That’s why you always see Notre Dame because they have a large national appeal for TV. Teams like Wake Forest and Louisville are in because their conferences are part of the BCS allaince. In past years a team like Boise State wouldn’t qualify even they are undefeated. The SEC commissioner has nothing to do who’s in or who’s out; it is all based on polls and computer rankings. I think they got it right. They will NEVER change this system. Why would they? Look at all the talk this creates every year. You can’t buy this kind of publicity. Michigan had there chance. They played a weak non-conference schedule and had two qualilty wins against ND and WI. After the top three in the Big Ten the rest of the conference was garbage this year. The SEC is much tougher from top to bottom.
Yep, what Belgian said!
Everybody keeps crying Michigan got screwed, why? Ohio State beat them, end of story. Want to play for the national title? Beat Ohio State.
No playoff, geez this college stuff lasts long enough as it is. 
What, who, huh and why — time to end this post.
And look at the one loss each suffered by Florida and Michigan on their schedules. You tell me which defeat was more impressive: the Gators’ 10-point road loss to an Auburn team that finished the season No. 9 in the BCS standings? Or the Wolverines’ three-point road loss to an Ohio State team now favored to win the national championship?
Florida was NOT the right decision! That game is going to be a BLOW OUT!
Let’s all go fishing instead. 
I am not trying to argue here but how did Michigan play a weak schedule (non-conference or not)?? Wasn’t it the 3rd toughest in Division I this year?
Mendotaeye has the best argument so far, and I pretty much agree with him…it should be 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 and then the championship game…as far as the publicity that this whole mess has created I agree it does bring attention, but by only having one championship game I feel that the BCS and the powers behind it have devalued the other BCS games…what does the USC vs. Michigan game really mean at this point, and what are LSU and Notre Dame really playing for…weather it is a 4 team or 8 team playoff, it would add more attention and excitement to college football than any BCS controversy. I am an Univerisy of Wisonsin grad, and I hate Michigan, but Florida playing the title game feels too much like a situation where the voters didn’t want to see a rematch so the voted to make sure that it didn’t happen. Until the 4 +1 system gets installed we be stuck with this BCS crap and yes I will still be watching…
They are playing for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
I like the +1 idea and get rid of the rule that prohibits more than 2 teams from any 1 conference. Its happened before, but this year the badgers are getting the short stick.
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