Playoffs in College Football

This is a two part post for playoffs in college football, why they need 'em and why they are still about 2 or 3 years away. First this season has been a terrible mess. As I write this there are still 2 undefeated teams in college football, Kansas and Hawaii. Everyone else has at least 1 loss and half of the top ten has 2 losses. Hawaii is still at 15, and likely will move up since Texas lost but they had the weakest schedule out of 119 teams so they likely won't suddenly vault into the top spot, but they are definitely better than some of teams that have lost 2 games in front of them. If Kansas can win out it will actually make things look pretty decent for the BCS, but if they lose then in all likely hood there will be 2 1-loss teams in the championship game. The idiot John Saunders said this is great for college football and really shows that it doesn't need a playoff, 'because every week is like a playoff'. How Dumb! This is the same old diatribe from playoff haters ever since the idea has been put out there. Every week is not a playoff or else Hawaii and Kansas would be teeing it up for the championship. It still all comes down to voters and subjective feeling about who should be in the game or at the top of the polls. The computers don't really do anything other than possibly screwing a team out of the championship. But does it really matter what 'people' think? Just put all of the stats into a computer wins, points, margin what have you, and let the computer figure out who should be in the game. Throw the polls out because they are too subjective. Now why won't that happen? Because bowl games are worth too much money. All the tie-ins with different conferences and sponsors, it is really too much to get into, but until someone suggests that they only do about 8 teams and make the first round all tied to the bowl games then they can have secondary sponsors for the next round and then another sponsor for the championship. Now about timing. Last year Ohio State was off for 50 days before being pounded in the championship game by Florida. That is over 7 weeks! You could play 7 rounds worth of playoff games in that span, so timing shouldn't be a problem, really. What needs to happen is that the 6 conferences that have BCS tie-ins should all have a championship game. Throw out the silly rule about only conferences with 12 teams having a championship and let all the conferences have a championship game. That is essentially the first round of the playoffs. The Big Ten can play their game in Indianapolis at the RCA dome. The PAC-10 can play at the new Cardinals stadium and the Big East can play either at Syracuse or Philadelphia or something. Then you play the first round major bowls the week of Christmas. The second round games the week of the 1st and the championship game the next week. That way all of the conferences have a shot and there are still 2 at-large spots for the 'poll' teams that have done the best. But until some of these schools start getting screwed out of their shot at the title nothing will change. I have a feeling that after this year there is going to be some major league yelling. So thanks John you had a good run, enjoy the end of it.

A side note: the BCS was created to bring the big ten and pac-10 into a unified championship game should one of the conferences have a top 2 team and in turn the Rose bowl would host the championship once every 4 years. Probably a lot of people hated the idea when it first came out, but the BCS did its job, it got all of the people that were enamored with the Rose Bowl to give up coveting the match up of the PAC-10 and the big ten (not much of a Match up really). After the BCS completes its third 4 year term it should be voted out in favor of what I proposed above. Don't worry about the playoffs, eventually everyone will forget why they hated the idea in the first place anyway.