Comments about ‘BCS fight heating up with new participants’

It's a silly idea to think you could take all 11 conference champions and the next 5 highest ranked teams to create a playoff where ALL but one of the undefeated teams would have to lose before the National Champion could be decided.

The BCS is living on borrowed time; I can't wait to see the monopoly put on trial before Congress or in a trial court where the BCS lawyers would have to show why a system that automatically excludes almost half of the teams from the national championship, before a single game is played, isn't a monopoly.

I wonder what you will write about when the BCS is dissolved and college football reverts to the old bowl system. Utah, Boise State and BYU fans will then be up in arms because the best bowls they will be able to get invited to are the Las Vegas Bowl, Poinsettia, New Mexico and Humanitarian bowls. Yep, you can write about upset fans with that type of situation.

Easiest way to fix the BCS. Have the Big 10 (Notre Dame) & Pac 10 (Utah & CU) expand to 12 teams and have a playoff. BYU would then take CU's place in the Big 12.

Notre Dame has as close to preferential treatment as you can get. Yet, they have not and probably never will cash in as an Independent or as the member of an organized conference.

Soution 2) Have the final AQ spot go to the champ of the Big East/C-USA/WAC/MWC with the highest BCS ranking.

College football will NEVER revert to the old bowl system. It has gone too far down the road of trying to crown a legitimate champion to ever go back to that ... fans would leave in droves. A true playoff is the next logical step and would be a huge monetary boon for college football. The BCS conferences know it too. They just don't want a level playing field. It would totally change the whole dynamic of college football.

The reason they don't want a playoff is the $$$ is shared among all the schools. Now, the paltry amount given to the non-Automatic Qualifiers is shared among the non-AQ schools. So all the MWC teams and Utah (gulp, swallowing a little pride there) that got money in 2004 got about half for what the Utes (gulp, swallowing a little pride there) won for everyone last year and that TCU will likely get for everyone this year.

BCS is headed by SEC which takes in a LOT of money as a result of the BCS

Exciting stuff. Tons of movement in the last month. Go get 'em Playoff PAC!

Um, those are the bowls they can get into now.

A 16 team playoff is the way to go. 11 conference champions and 5 at large teams. That way no conference can ever claim it was left out of the playoff.

In addition, I would incorporate the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowl as the quarter final games. Those bowls, in my opinion, are the tradition laden ones and I would like to see them preserved.

Most of the rest should be eliminated, though a few might continue as a consolation prize for the few deserving teams that didn't make it into the playoffs i.e., Holiday, Cotton, et cetera. I would, however, make the payout a minimum of 2 million dollars per team.

This just shows that the BCS is running scared--hiring an Exec Director and a spokesperson like Ari Fleischer. I think they're spooked. Light them up, my friends.

An 8-team playoff is the obvious solution. Use the existing four BCS bowls as regional playoffs. The 8 highest-ranking teams according to the BCS poll would be invited.

The remaining two undefeated teams will go head-to-head in the national championship game.

It's not perfect, but it's the best compromise given the current system. Ultimately, it gives all seriously worth teams a shot to play for it all without extending the season too much.

HOW HARD IS THAT???

Rankings should be eliminated from determining who qualifies.

Create a 16 team playoff with each of the 11 conference champs being automatic qualifiers. Like the basketball tournament, use a selection committee to determine at-large teams. Keep the bowls around, as they can invite teams who didn't make the playoff. Shorten the season by a week and start it a week earlier.

That gives you 2 extra weeks at the end of the season. Right now, the season ends the first Saturday in December. With a shorter & earlier season, the first two rounds of playoffs can be done by then which counters any argument about school exams. Play first 2 rounds at higher seeded schools. Bowls can invite teams eliminated in first two rounds. This only eliminates 4 teams from bowl eligibility due to being in the playoffs and guarantees every team a fair chance at a championship.

They still have the BCS? I thought they did away with that when byu beat Oklahoma and the press & fans in Utah named them National Champs.
Best.
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would be for TCU to play in the National Championship game AND to select Boise State to play in a BCS bowl game in the same year.

Don't doubt that it won't happen.

For the paltry sum of $17 million in BCS money, the Power Conferences could justify the fairness of the current system for years to come and keep the money grab to themselves. They probably wouldn't even need to consider re-evaluating which conferences receive an AQ.

"Don't tell us you don't have access to the National Championship, TCU went in 2009!" "Don't tell us that only one non-AQ has a chance, we picked TCU and BSU in 2009!"

The best scenario for the demise of the BCS is to have Texas lose one of its two remaining games, and then have TCU ranked second after ALA or FL loses in the SEC Championship and be left out of the National Championship game. AND to have BSU be ranked in the top five and be passed over by a big money bowl with a perfect record for the second year in a row.

Would the power conferences be so short sighted?

when DJ and PK interviewed him Monday as guest hosts for Jim Rome said Penn State would likely get the nod to the BCS because of their ability to bring rear ends into seats and travel a lot. Thus, it's likely once again for Texas Christian and Boise State to get SCREWED. The BCS' addiction to greed will be its downfall. COUNT ON IT!

As much as the BCS is a cripled system, it is the last thing I feel our government needs to meddle with. I feel play-offs are the best solution but that determination should be made by the NCAA. The less government control the better.

The sad reality is that the elite schools control access to THEIR bowl games . . . and understandably they don't want to have non-BCS schools horning in on their little arrangement. The best way to deal with the situation is for non-BCS schools to somehow recruit and coach well enough to keep beating the big boys and making people like Barry Switzer eat crow on national TV.