| This year has been chock full of BCS | | | | sides. Therefore it is harder to compete against |
| controversy. Between OU edging out Texas for | | | | the big dogs when you can only steal a couple |
| the Big 12 championship spot, to earlier in the | | | | good recruits from them every year. |
| season when it was likely Penn State would get in | | | | On the other hand you have the 8 game playoff |
| with an easy schedule and people would watch | | | | system. While there won't be any at large bids or |
| another blowout of a Big 10 team. | | | | major Cinderella stories, it will be the best teams |
| I have heard bloggers and sites calling for a 16 | | | | competing. Who wouldn't want to see first round |
| team playoff system and others calling for a 8 | | | | games of Utah versus Texas, or USC vs Florida. |
| team playoff. The sixteen team playoff scenario | | | | They would all get great ratings and be fun to |
| seems way too unlikely to me. For starters, you | | | | watch. By the time you got to the end of the |
| would have to play four post season games | | | | tournament there would be no doubt that the |
| instead of 3. You would definitely have to | | | | best team won. If Alabama for example, beat |
| subtract a game or two from the regular season | | | | Penn State, Florida, and then Oklahoma in the |
| to decrease injuries and players playing way past | | | | championship, would you really question their title? |
| January. | | | | I doubt it. |
| Another issues is you would be putting teams like | | | | Whereas with the current system in 2004 Auburn |
| Ball State, Georgia Tech and TCU in there, who | | | | went perfect and was left out of the title game. |
| would generally get blown out every year by the | | | | We could still use the BCS ranking system for |
| USC's and Florida like teams of the NCAA. Yes | | | | seeding, there is no problem with that. We all |
| there are those who would say "there could be | | | | know that any system is fairer then the one we |
| Cinderella teams" the "underdogs" like in NCAA | | | | have currently. Just ask Texas right now? Should |
| basketball. Yes it is somewhat possible, but the | | | | they really have to play Ohio State as a |
| recruiting gaps in football or a lot more severe | | | | consolation prize? |
| than in basketball. Teams like George Mason and | | | | I just have serious doubt that the bowl |
| Davidson others can get three or four good | | | | committee will change anything because of the |
| players, and that's all it takes to have a good | | | | amount of money these bowls are making. They |
| team. Whereas football, three or four doesn't cut | | | | would probably keep all the other small bowls and |
| it, when you have eleven guys on offense and | | | | add the playoffs on top of it, if they do every |
| defense. So you need a lot of talent on both | | | | change it. |
