Comments about ‘Proposal could end nonsense called BCS’

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It's a start, but unless the NCAA puts some real pressure on the BCS to make a change, I don't see any significant improvements in the near future. The NCAA needs to stand up and carry out their own NCAA Men's Football Championship Bowl Series with fairer qualification standards.

I don't know if many people realize that the BCS is simply a bunch of business people who have developed a monopoly on the college football championship.

The first problem I see with this system (besides the fact that the BCS commissioners won't like it) is that it doesn't wipe the slate clean and start all 120 FBS teams on the same level. It concedes the "superiority" of the current BCS teams by making them the standard by which non-BCS teams are measured. And because it bases qualification partially on the previous season's results, it becomes inherently unfair. Teams are never the same from one season to the next.

I can't think of a more equitable solution that the same system that is used in basketball: the RPI. It's a real-time tool for determining every team's strength, relative to everyone else. Given, at the beginning of a season the RPI is wildly erratic, but by the end it has settled into a far more trustworthy measure of team strength and fitness for playoff competition than human polls and computer polls which are little more than a composite of the same human polls.

Florida would have MURDERED UTAH and everyone knew it. Beating up on the likes of Colorada State and UNLV won't get you a national championship. Schedule some teams with a pulse, Utah you cowards!

that college sports should be nationalized and run by the federal government. It is the only way to achieve fairness. The salaries of college coaches should be slashed and their travel perks abolished. Each school that fields a football team should be given a set amount of cash from the government and a cohort of recruits each year with which to compete. We must not let the past successes of some schools interfere with the ability of other schools to compete on a level playing field. This "yes we can" attitude will make college football much more enjoyable for all to watch.

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Do you mean murdered Utah as in how they "murdered" Mississippi? or squeaked by Alabama. Your claim is a false assumption not supported by any fact and unfortunately, typical of SEC fans who mistake opinion for fact.

And losing to Ole Miss at home will?

I'm just sayin'

And I'm a BYU fan!

Florida would have gotten beaten like a drum. Our OOC scheduling is much more challenging than yours, and our conference went 2-0 against yours. So honestly, I fear a schedule of CSU and UNLV more than Tennessee and Alabama. Besides, fighting against a playoff only shows your fear. Remember, Kyle was the one who said we'd play Florida, Urban didn't respond in kind. I'd call Florida the cowards, you coward.

Utah would have played Florida any time anywhere. Would Florida have played Utah is the big question. There was no doubt in my mind that Utah would win that bowl game and big time. I don't like Utah. I think the school is terrible but Kyle Whittingham has built a wonderful program there. Florida needs to put up or shut up and... it might not hurt them to play Colorado State and UNLV once and a while. They are better than several you have on your schedule for next year.

"Florida would have MURDERED UTAH and everyone knew it". Alabama was going to MURDER UTAH and everyone know it..., until the game was actually played.

Alabama would have MURDERED UTAH and everyone knew it. But then they didn't.

The same thing was said of the Crimson Tide. Utah didn't stand a chance. If all we had to do was look at statistics to determine a winner, we wouldn't have to play any games.

Let the players and coaches decide it on the field.

How many years have number 1 seeds in NCAA basketball win it all (and there are 4 number 1 seeds)? Over the last 30 years only 14 have won it all. I want to see it determined on the field. If Florida murders Utah. They are the undisputed champion. The end.

@ Florida: Yep, Utah hasn't played any teams with a pulse. Nevermind that Alabama was the HEAVY favorite to win the Sugar Bowl. The Crimson Tide were essentially a no-show, not what anyone expected. Utah was more than willing to take on Florida, and regardless of the outcome it would have been a great game.

Everyone KNEW that ALABAMA would have MURDERED Utah Too didn't they! Alabama barely lost so Florida and Utah spanked Alabama. Until they actually play on the field you can't say that Utah would have lost. You can speculate they would have, but murdered come on!

Urban is the person opposed to playing Utah, Whit would play Florida anytime, anywhere.

You live in a ROYAL DREAMLAND don't you?

Utah played a very respectable schedule, OSU, TCU, BYU, were all ranked, BYU, TCU, near top 10.

Florida lost at home to a Patsy! (Mississippi)

Utah MANHANDLED Alabama! Florida was nearly manhandled by the tide.

College Football is feudalistic system with the Lords of the BCS sitting at the top. They won't schedule a fair home and home with Utah. That's why Florida schedules Patsies like the Citadel and the powerhouse Kentucky to come to Florida and be sacrificed for a big payday.

Lets have a FAIR system where amateur college athletes don't get robbed of a fair shot at the championship and where the conferences all have a fair chance for the big payday instead of protecting the mighty BS Lords.

Utah won it on the field! That's where it should always be decided!

I think it's odd that any conference should be considered "automatic qualifying." If the 6 BCS conferences are that good, there shouldn't be any controversy about inviting their champions to a BCS Bowl/Playoff without resorting to some rule that mandates it. IF.

No offense against Utah (and no offense against Virginia Tech or Cincinnati), but the real travesty this last season was that what should have been the 4th BCS bowl actually took place in San Diego-- either TCU or BSU on their own merits would have been the BCS-buster last year, if not for the fact that there already was a BCS-buster, and heaven forbid there should be more than one.

"I believe" it is good to hear that you are voting for hope and change.

This doesn't solve anything. It just puts the MWC in with the rest of the elitist conferences....which it is not. Hey, what about conference USA (which is arguably as good as the MWC) AND how about looking at the WAC VS MWC over the past 3 or 4 years....the WAC has held its ground. (See Boise State, Hawaii, Nevada, Fresno State) Get your head out of the clouds Craig Thompson. The MWC is NOT better than some of the other conferences you have left out.
another suggestion: How about taking the final 16 teams in ranking and doing a playoff....bag all of this conference crap!

A coworker suggested a 32 TEAM PLAYOFF. It would start in December with the lower bowls taking some of the early games. Then go to 16 teams with some additional bowls and move to 8, then 4, and then the national championship game in January. They would select the top 32 teams in the AP polls and let the chips fall where they may.
I'd be very interested in that kind of playoff system and watch all the games with interest. Imagine a Sweet 16 in Division I college football. Who would want to miss the four games with the Final 8 teams? Would you watch the two games with the Final 4? It gets me excited about college football again. Then every Division I college football team would have a shot at the championship game in the Rose Bowl (there would have to be Pac 10 concessions). Perhaps the Rose Bowl would choose to be one of the lesser bowls, but I bet they'd savor being the grand daddy bowl of all time. Or, the bowls could just bid on the pairings of 1 vs 32 and 2 vas 31, etc. I say let's do it!

to "I believe".....spoken like a true socialist

to "all other commentors" .....TV executives run college football today not NCAA presidents!!!
Game dates, times, etc are determined by the TV people, and scheduling is governed by what opponent will bring in the most money with the least amount of expense....Thompson should work directly with the TV people and propose to them how they can make the most money and then let the TV executives tell the universities how the system will work because they are doing it right now anyway. Why did ESPN shell out millions for the right to the BCS championship game in a couple of years if they didn't know they would beable to have a true playoff system in place by that time.