The BCS National Championship Tournament

To say that you either have to be ignorant or dishonest. Boise State almost certainly would have played LSU for the national championship if they had beaten TCU. Houston would have had a chance if they had beaten Southern Mississippi and played a better non-conference schedule. Any non-AQ who is serious about making a national championship run should just schedule 3 BCS teams, preferably with at least one being a legitimate top 10 opponent, and then go undefeated. That's all it would take in most seasons.

Of course an undefeated non-AQ will be considered lower than an undefeated BCS team, and a one loss non-AQ team will be considered lower than a one loss or maybe even two loss BCS team. But it's absolutely possible for non-AQs to make the national championship in college football. They just have to play a tough enough schedule to earn respect, which most of them don't want to do. Boise State patented the formula of playing one high profile opponent at a neutral site early in the season and then crying the rest of the year about not getting enough respect.

Which is precisely my point about a playoff having nothing to do with crowning "the best team."

 

OK....But what about the rest of the non-AQ conference champions? THey play a tough season and can't do anything with their conference championship but play in a bowl game that wouldn't fill up a high school stadium.

 

Some type of playoff system needs to be implemented. Practically everyone wants it.

It will happen.

 

Agreed. I just think the current Bowl/BCS arrangement is nothing more than a collusion of greed between the AQ conferences and ESPN. I do feel sorry for the champions of the MAC, Mountain West, WAC, Sun Belt, and Conference USA in that they can't at least try. Even though they will fail, they should be given a chance.

But yet, it's those AQ conference commissioners and most importantly, the college chancellors/presidents that prevent this from taking shape. And while they continue to stall, FBS will continue to never have a bonafide national champion due to the opinions of the media, corporate greed, and the unwillingness to change.

 

The whole situation is getting a little ridiculous. Teams from the other conferences are scrambling to join the Big East, while the Big East is just scrambling period. Boise State & San Diego State being in the Big East? Really? In football only? Conferences should be about all sports and the schools should be geographically close together. How many fans can fly cross country for an away game? It's crazy!

 

That's something I don't get. Numerous conferences have "associated members" that only play selected sports in a given conference. I say if you join the conference, you join in ALL sports. It all started with Notre Dame, who is in every sport in the Big East, except football. If you put every team in a conference (most definitely regional ones), they have to earn their way to the conference & national titles.

ND can have a pathetic schedule by scheduling games against other Catholic schools and the service academies, laced with a big game or two (Michigan and USC) for window dressing, get a 9-10 win season and that makes them eligible for a BCS bid? NO SIR. Get in a conference and earn your way in like everyone else.

 

The Bowl situation is also ridiculous, and unfair. Let's see: UCLA & Illinois are facing off in the Kraft Bowl after both teams have fired their coaches, and neither team has a winning record. If UCLA loses this game, they end up 6-8.

 

Another reason why the amount of bowl games needs to be drastically reduced. Even the 7-5 teams don't need to play in a bowl game. 9-3 or 8-4 is about the extent I'd go. The UCLA exemption is a joke.

 

No one thinks or wants to see a 6-6, 7-5 play a bowl game but think a team that got beat by a 6-6 should be playing for the mnc. Yep, the BCS got it absolutely right.

 

But no consideration for the said team that lost to a 6-6 team, who won more games against ranked opponents and those who finished with a winning record? Computers said OK State, Humans said Alabama....It's right in the present, but would have been correct if OK State had been granted the berth in the title game.