BC...........Who Cares.........S

Oh what a great idea this seemed like back in 1998 when all the NCAA presidents and the six big conferences got together to start a system that would determine a true college football champion. After many years of having split national champions, thanks to various bowls ties with other conferences that could not be broken thanks to some kind of binding contract, and of course the greed that is never publicized. So the big honchos atop the NCAA came up with the BCS instead of a real playoff system, what a genius idea lets throw some numbers at a computer and let it decide who should be playing for a championship. After all the NCAA has a tournament implemented for the college basketball season, and everyone knows just how much madness goes on in March. So why not a playoff, its not because the student athlete will miss class time, just look at their basketball counterparts playing all over the United States as far as Hawaii and Alaska missing countless class time and then the tournament last a whole month, so that cant be the big excuse. Yes I know that the bowls games are important for the little schools like north Texas and the schools that have at least 6 wins they should get rewarded as well. So why not keep the lesser bowls that always start out bowl week with a dud and a bang. You change the other bowls games and make them playoff games, you will still bring in the same number of fans if not more. These games will add excitement in the building knowing that someone has a chance to move forward. Keep the names keep the sponsors but make them worth so much more for the fans and the players.

The excitement of the season is just taken away when you only have three teams that are in true contention. This year you have Florida, Alabama, and Texas they are good teams but they are not the only undefeated teams in the nation. They are followed by Tcu, Cincinnati, and Boise St respectively these teams are undefeated and have showed that they can play with the big conferences. But the BCS has already penciled in the big three since Florida and Alabama play each other in the SEC championship game later this year by default Texas will play the winner and the rest of college football can take a backseat, not ever knowing if the three behind them can shock the world.

Controversy will always be a part in sports, in college basketball everybody cries about who is in and who is left out. But at the end everyone is satisfied because a true champion earned his trophy by playing for it on the field, or on the court, and not by a computer that gets fed numbers, never seeing the teams play on the field. To me this is the closet one gets to a communist system the computer spits out the two teams and we have to take as that, no ones opinion matter, facts do not matter, even rank position by coaches and media don't matter. How else do your explain Iowa (before they were defeated) the pollsters had them ranked No. 7, but yet the BCS computers had them ranked No. 4 explain that to me, I have been picking my brain apart trying to figure that one for the last four weeks. In reality we will never see Tcu or Boise St. play for a national championship in football. They are playing for respect, and in my opinion they have earned it. Then you have a one loss team like Georgia Tech yea they stumbled earlier in the season against Miami but now they have come on like barn burners, but for what to just sit there and hope for a miracle. Why a miracle because the computers say so, not in words but in beeps.

As fans all we ask for is a chance to see probably the greatest most talked about playoff system ever. Really what is the reason we watch college football, to be disappointed at the end of the season, when the wrong teams are playing in the championship game. How many times has the BCS been tweaked because of flaws in the system. The BCS should just be eliminated, done with, this system just does not work. I know this discussion has been going on for years, and unfortunately we might never see a playoff system for a long time. To much money involved with all the conferences and the bowl sights. T.V. deals are also affecting the change from the BCS. But as fans we can always dream of a clear cut champion. To bad it will only be a dream and the reality that we are stuck with is "what if".