The BCS is more flawed than all of John Madden’s ridiculous catchphrases said together in one incredibly inane sentence. It reeks of more inconsistencies than Mike Velez’s ’00 theory that New England’s win on Monday night against the Ravens came without some divine intervention (it did, God is a Pats fan, this is clear to me now). It is so incredibly absurd and preposterous, that it puts Jim Rome’s Final Burn to shame. In all honesty people, how does a system that claims to be the most accurate way of ranking team’s in College Football, place #13 Illinois (who plays in a dreadful Big 10) in the Rose Bowl over the #6 team in the country, Missouri? Does it really make sense that a #13 team, and a school that lost it’s only meaningful game all year are getting nods into bowl games over teams like Missouri or even Arizona State for that matter? Apparently, to the BCS voters, wins and losses mean nothing, or else how could you explain a three-loss team playing in January when some much better two-loss programs are subjected to play in the Cotton and Pacific Life Holiday Bowls? You might as well throw into the Papajohns.com Bowl and call it a year.
The BCS constantly makes claims defending its system when it gets under fire from media-types and fuming bloggers. It oft avoids the subject at hand, which is that a bunch of PCs are trying to mathematically calculate the “worthiness” of completely different teams and schedules. In the past ten years of the BCS, I’d say they have gotten maybe two or three championship games right. The system claims that it looks at the total body of work over the course of a full season, and that the whole season is a playoff. If that’s the case then if you lose in November you shouldn’t have a chance at the title, and Hawaii should be competing in the SuperDome come January 7th. And lest we forget how Auburn got snubbed in 2004 after going perfect in a much tougher SEC than right now. That year, it was name and fame that the BCS looked at over total game. USC and Oklahoma played in that national championship game because of their program’s storied histories. It just isn’t fair.
An eight-team playoff system seems to be the apt choice for replacing the current arrangement, but it all comes down to money. The twelfth game that most (save of course Ohio State) play and the conference championship games were added to the schedule purely for greed. That money goes directly into the pockets of the BCS and a bit to the schools that compete. Instead of those two weeks, a playoff could be instituted to see who would play in the bowl games. Everything would be made much easier this way. But then come the excuses. “We can’t have a playoff then because of the academic calendar”. Really? You can’t? Are these ball players going to that many of their classes in the first place that their “average” would be hurt from these two weeks? It’s absurd, how the unsupported justifications are just endless. Don’t look for anything to change soon, it makes too much sense.
