College Football Needs A Playoff

The purpose of this blog is to consider what could've been as it pertains to an eight team playoff in Division I-A (also called Bowl Championship) college football.

Since 1998, college football fans have been forced to accept the Bowl Championship Series' selection of #1 & #2 teams and their selection to take part in the National Championship game. The winner is crowned the "BCS National Champion" and is heralded as the champion of college football. However, this process is not without much controversy, and there will continue to be controversy as long as the teams are not allowed to decide who is the best team in college football utilizing the tried and true method that we call a tournament.

My proposal: College football should continue to use the BCS formula for ranking the top 25 teams, and use those rankings to identify the top 8 teams and enter them into a playoff. The three week playoff would start immediately after "Championship Week", and could conclude by the end of December, but would probably include a bye week so that the championship game could be played on or after New Year's Day. Every team not selected to the playoff could go play in the many Bowl Games (also known as "exhibition games") that exist currently.

Monday, December 7, 2009

2006 - Boise State: Last Man Standing


Actual BCS Bowls (w/ Final BCS rankings):
Rose Bowl: #5 USC 32, #3 Michigan 18
Fiesta Bowl: #8 Boise State 43, #10 Oklahoma 42 (OT)
Orange Bowl: #6 Louisville 24, #14 Wake Forest 13
Sugar Bowl: #4 LSU 41, #11 Notre Dame 14
National Championship: #2 Florida 41, #1 Ohio State 14

2006 was the first year where the BCS actually created a fifth bowl game, dubbed the "National Championship". The end of the year was not without controversy, though, as #3 Michigan and #1 both were undefeated heading into the annual rivalry game. Ohio State won that game by 3 points, and many thought that the National Championship game should've been a rematch of that game. In the end, #2 Florida was .0101 points ahead of Michigan, and ended up knocking Ohio State from the ranks of the unbeaten in the championship game. At the end of the year only one team was unbeaten: #8 Boise State. Did the BCS get it right? You be the judge.
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