Ohio State versus.........
Who will play Ohio State for the National Championship in college football? The National Championship may have been played on November 18 when Ohio State beat Michigan 42-39, but the BCS will try and match up the "right" school to play them with a ridculous system. This system is more confusing than quantum physics because of all the computer rankings, team's strength of schedule, team's win differential, and of course much debate by schools and coaches. Going into the final week of college football there are literally 10-20 scenarios for the five BCS bowl games which would effect the remaining bowl games. One thing that is for sure is that Ohio State will be playing for the National Championship, but who will they play. If USC beats UCLA most likely it will be USC, but USC has one loss to Oregon St., not a powerhouse at all. But a school like Florida's only loss is to Auburn, a team ranked in the top 20. What about the other one-loss teams?
Michigan, Wisconsin, and possibly Florida, Louisville, and Rutgers will all have a claim to play for the National Championship because each one will only have one-loss as well. But wait, what about the little school out in Idaho, Boise State? They finished their season last week capping off an undefeated season, shouldn't they have the chance to play for the National Championship? It has happened before that an undefeated team has not played in the National Championship game, twice in the last three years, TCU in 2003, and two teams in 2004 Auburn and Utah. Maybe a playoff system doesn't sound too bad.
Divison I AA, II, III all use a playoff system and it has been working sufficiently for many years. Also, look at college basketball and how successful March Madness is. So the question has been brought up over the past three years, should college football break away from the BCS and go to a playoff system? If not, should they just keep it the way it is with the BCS and have controversy every year?
2 comments:
I’ve felt for awhile now that the system would work better both in terms of making sense and economically if it was changed to a playoff system. Yes, the bowl games make a lot of money, but if a playoff system was used, it is likely that more overall games would be played allowing more tickets to be sold. In addition, traveling teams and fans would create more revenue for venders, hotels, etc., and for that matter even scalpers.
the NCAA should definately break away from the BCS rankings. It is an unfair way to judge a teams ranking in the nation such as Boise State having an undefeated season and not even being considered to have a chance to play in the title game. College football would be much better off if it used a different playoff system.
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