8/29 Weekly Hot Topic: Who's #1?

[Dan!]

Ready or not, here it comes! Thursday marks the kickoff of a new college football season. And love it or not, the BCS system is still in place to crown a national champion. Here is a reminder of how it works:

http://www.bcsfootball.org/

Confusing? Unfair? Do you think it truly produces an undisputed champion? What would be a better system?

[hicks05]

I think they need the same system as college basketball or atleast similiar to the wnnier of the conference gets in auto. and the rest are bids rank them and let them PLAY

[TX3DFan]

College football desperately needs a playoff system. Just like every other major team sport. It amazes me year in and year out how they continue with this very confuzzled system to rank teams. Have the top 4 teams of each division (Pac10, Big12, etc) face off against all the rest in a single elimination system, winner takes all. The solution seems so simple, I don't understand why the NCAA continues to allow it to continue in it's current broken state.

[Chiquita Gomer]

I agree... a playoff system of some kind would be a GRAND improvement over the BCS.









Even though I do enjoy being #1! :) Hook 'Em Horns! :cool:

[Sedosi]

I agree with what everyone said here. Playoff system.

Take the champs of each conference BCS or no, the top Indy team, and maybe three at-large teams.

Big XII
Big East
SEC
ACC
Pac-10
Independent
Cusa
WAC
MAC
MWC
Sun Belt
At-large
At-large
At-large

That's 14 teams. Give two bye weeks to the number one and two teams in the Country via the polls and play out the string IN the existing bowl structure with the championship game being the "BCS Bowl" at the end.



Oh yeah, this year the Mythical National Championship game will be Ohio State vs. West Virginia with THE OSU winning it all.

(and yes, as a Michigan fan it hurts me to say that)

[Dan!]

A true playoff system would make so much sense. Look at how much interest that March Madness generates. But I'm afraid none of us may live long enough to see a to see a playoff system in place. There is too much money at stake in the current BCS and bowl system. What suggestions do ya'll have for a hybrid of this?

[bassgirl192]

didn't they say that they didn't want a playoff because it would make the season too long? (*that's just something i thought i heard. i could be wrong.*) i vaugely remember hearing that somewhere...

what about you keep the bowl games, but just use them as playoff games instead of title games. like, for instance, the alamo bowl game was for the quarter finals or something of the sort. that way, each bowl game still can be played, but the playoff system can be done.

[Sedosi]

A true playoff system would make so much sense. Look at how much interest that March Madness generates. But I'm afraid none of us may live long enough to see a to see a playoff system in place. There is too much money at stake in the current BCS and bowl system. What suggestions do ya'll have for a hybrid of this?

The only hybrid I can think of would be a BCS+1 type of game, where the bowl games are played as scheduled but then there's ONE more game between #1 & #2 to determine the champion.

This would work in 99% of all cases, unless you ended the season with three undefeated teams.....:(


And bassgirl: Yup, that's my plan, make the bowl games the playoff games. Except that I don't buy the 'season's too long' garbage they are throwing out. It's about money, plain and simple. It stopped being about the 'student athlete' several years ago.

[bholdj]

i think a +1 game would be a good substitue until a playoff comes.

Like in 04 when auburn went 13-0 and got shut out of game. I think they should have allowed for auburn to play usc in a +1 extra game. Sure its extra, but it sure would be fun :)