Should college football get rid of the BCS and go to a playoff style season end?
917794
Without a doubt! Many deserving teams will get shut out. For example, Wisconsin, who is currently 8th in the BCS cannot play in a BCS game because a conference can only bring a max of 2 teams. What a shame. Also, with so much league inparity, the thought of Lousiville or Rutgers going to the "championship game" base solely on record and a computer score is scary. Let them play it out!!!
896740
Sounds good to me. Or to appease the NCAA buttheads that created the BCS, use the BCS to rank teams based on their record against strength of schedule. This way, only the best of the best make the playoff and the other bowls wouldn't be screwed out of their tie-ins with the conferences unless those tie-ins belonged to teams who finished in the top 16.
903268
the bcs and the rankings should be placed in a burning paper bag and left on the ncaa's doorstep. \n\nusually the magic ingredient in a burning paper bag is poop but there is no difference between a steaming pile of dog turd and the bcs.
734346
Bowl Championship System\n\nControversy because at the end of the year, there are always more then two teams that deserve a shot at the national title.\n\nShould stay the way it is because, well most analysts use the reason of this way every game counts. One loss, you are more then likely not going to get in. Two losses you are out 99.9% of the time. That is unlike any other sports system in the any sport.\n\nShould be eliminated because it doesn't always have the correct two teams in the championship game, subjective though, and some teams play different at the end of the year then in the beginning so you don't always have the best teams up in the polls.\n\nAlternative would probably be a playoff system. More then likely the top 8 teams in the polls have a one and out playoffs. 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5 and then continue until you got a championship.
789591
I happy their up their because what if Norte Dame beats USC and ends up at the BCS title game against Ohio State, Michigan beat Norte Dame and that's unfair...they should kill the guy who came up with the BCS, their should be playoffs like NCAA final four....
887502
Even if D1-A adopted a playoff system, people would still complain about WHICH 8 (or however many) teams should be in it... you KNOW that fans of the #9 team would claim THEY should be in it instead of #7, because #9 beat #7 early in the season.\n\nPlus, a playoff makes it LESS likely we'd see the two best teams in the championship game, not more likely....the more playoff games you have, the greater the chance for an upset... this year is the exception, but the BCS has be correct more often than not.  It just SEEMS like it hasn't because all fans have their biases.\n\nI'd love to see the top 4 college basketball teams play in the final four...but it's NEVER happened... why do fans and sportswriters supposedly love stories like George Mason getting to the final four? Who wants to watch THAT? I wasn't happy they got there last year....I want to see the #1 seeds from each bracket play in the final four....but because of having so many rounds, it's something we'll most likely never see.\n\nIt's the same with football... an 8 team field would just about guarantee that we wouldn't see the top two teams. And who decides which 8 teams get there?
823541
no, because a team's final record should not be the only determining factor in playing for the national championship.\n\nif that were the case, you would see teams schedule their non-conference opponents as division 2 teams to better their records.  that's just not right....
796653
Who cares??  It isn't accurate.  The BCS is one of many reasons I no longer follow college ball.  We need a playoff!!\n\n"Throw out the computers!  Have a playoff so we KNOW who's the best in the country!"  Woody Paige, 'COLD PIZZA,' ESPN2 this morning, 11/13/06.\n\nSTILL think I'm nuts now?  Even SPORTSCASTERS hate the BCS!!
728072
Yes.\n The school must include a couple of major non-conference games on the schedule(like upset Ohio St., Texas, Florida), be undeafeated, and have one of those years where there is only one clearly dominant #1 team with a bunch of 10-2 conference champions from the BCS conferences.\nFresno St. could be a school that could do it, since they do go play big schools (LSU this year).
730669
The reason for the huge leap (to #6 in the BCS standings) is because 4 top ten teams lost on Saturday... one of them, thanks to Rutgers' own efforts.\n\nAfter RU  beat Louisville on Thursday night, I envisioned them moving to maybe 10th or 11th (they'd been #15), but not much higher, unless some other top 10 teams lost...which they did...Texas, Auburn, Cal and #3 Louisville all lost....\n\nThe way the beat Louisville, coming back from a 25-7 deficit and completely shutting them out in the 2nd half (after giving up 56 points to them last season) impressed enough voters...RU ranked 7th or 8th in the writers and coaches polls this week, and moved up to 6th in the BCS rankings, announced this evening (Sunday).\n\nBut it's mostly because of the loses suffered by the other 3 top ten teams...had they all won, there probably wouldn't be room for Rutgers in the top 10...yet...\n\nbtw, fans of other teams can say whatever they want about who Rutgers plays, but the fact is that the conferences themselves came up with the BCS system... that means Florida had a hand in it, Auburn had a hand in it...all the teams in BCS conferences put this thing together... so those schools have no one but themselves to blame... \n\nThe Florida Gators' next game is against Western Carolina...big deal.\n\nOhio State played Bowling Green earlier.  Michigan played Central Michigan, and barely got by Ball State.\n\nAuburn played Washington State and Buffalo earlier this season.\n\nLSU played Fresno State and Louisiana-Lafayette....\n\nNobody plays top teams every week...every team schedules some cupcake games, you don't hear me complaining about their schedules...\n\nYou play who you play.\n\nSportswriters and fans can talk all they want about a playoff system, but the BCS is what the colleges themselves decided on.  So their complaints fall on deaf ears... Of course I know Rutgers isn't going to play for the national championship this year, but so what?   What difference does it make in anyone's life if their team finishes the season ranked 5th instead of 4th?  \n\nGet a life, people! The college championship has never been decided on the field, it's always determined by sportswriters... the BCS has actually been pretty good at giving us #1 vs. #2 matchups lately in the championship game....they sure got it right last year, with USC and Texas...
958193
No!!  You have to look at it from OSU point of view.  What would be the point?  If they played again and Michigan won all that does is show that each team won a game a piece.  To me that means a co-national championship.  Personally I think Florida is a better team than Michigan but we may never know how good.  This is why division 1A needs a playoff system.  Once and for all put a 16 team tournament together and play for the real national championship.
797442
Yes, because the winner will go to the National Championship Game...\n\nUnless the loser only drops to #2 in the BCS, then both of the teams will meet again in the National Championship game.  \n\nThe Rose Bowl gets the highest ranked Big 10 team that isn't in the national championship game.\n\n*EDIT*\nRegarding Wisconsin, they would not go to a BCS bowl because they don't allow 3 teams from the same conference to play in a BCS bowl.
708936
The best thing would be if come the end of season noone but Ohio StateORMichigan and Rutgers  were left undefeated. and everyone else had like 2 losses and ild like to see how they would excuse not putting Rutgers in the title game and instead putting a 2 loss team in there instead LMAO... THAT would be worth the price of admission, watching the BCS computers explode LMAO..  \n\nRutgers?! does not compute! does not compute!! *smoke* *Boom!* LOL
941456
The teams score "style points" for winning and who they win against and how they did.  For example:  If the top team beat a very sucky team by just a few points then they would only get a few points.  If you beat the best team by a lot of points then you would get a lot of style points.  The top 2 teams in the BCS get to play in the national champoinship.  There are many divisions in college football and only the biggest confrences get a BCS bid which is the winner of that confrence (best record with-in their confrence) will get the BCS Bid which is a big bowl game or almost like a "mini" championship game.
834067
Under the current BCS system, it certainly appears USC is on their way for the title. Since the season started with the BCS system, I wouldn't change it now. #1 and #2 should play to determine who the champion is.\n\nThat said, some conferences are weaker than others. The SEC is such a tough and competitive conference, nearly anyone is able to compete with a ranked team. Just look at UGA, Auburn, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc that were all ranked in the top 10 to fall to another SEC team. I personally favor a playoff system where any undefeated team and each of the conference champions enter into a win/lose bracket. That way it is "put up or shut up" time and no more controversy about which conferences tend to be more favored.
757273
8 Team Playoff would be way better than the BCS crap
973843
Anything would be better then the BCS system.  Right now there are many teams that could win the national championship but wont even get to play for a chance.  Atleast with a playoff system you could have more games and be sure the right team makes the finals.