My Take on the BCS

Lately, there has been alot of talks with the current BCS system. Heck, the BCS coordinator is in Washington, D.C. right now for a hearing with Congress. Currently the BCS has 6 computers that weigh a number of things in calibration with the Harris Poll determine the BCS rankings. At the the end of regular season (first weekend in December, usually), the BCS selection begins. The winners of the BCS conferences aka "The Big Six" (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, Pac-10, SEC) are automatically given a bid to a bowl and some will go to a specific bowl if not in the top 2 in which the team would go to the National Championship. For example, SEC winner would go to the Sugar, ACC to the Orange, Pac-10 and Big Ten to the Rose, and Big 12 to Fiesta. This system is flawed no doubt, but not enough to go to freaking Congress about. Biggest flaws: 2003, The supposed AP National Champion (can I get a BS?): Oklahoma and LSU were #1 & 2 in the final BCS so they play in the National Championship while #3 USC was pissed because they thought they should play in the game (technically they should have, Oklahoma lost their conference championship) and went to the Rose Bowl. USC crushed some team I can't remember (Michigan, I am pretty sure) and LSU beat Oklahoma (hopefully you knew that one.). So the final polls come out and BAM, controversy. So all the polls had LSU at #1 except for the AP Poll which had no other than USC as #1. USC claimed to be the "AP National Champion" (which suddenly was serious claim to National Champion, can I get another BS?) So USC claims to have won the National Championship in 2003 even though they didn't win the National Championship Game. Next year, Auburn goes undefeated in the toughest conference in NCAA Football, but Oklahoma and USC are 1, 2 (a 3rd BS please?). USC crushed Oklahoma (I was in middle school at the time and saw that coming) in the National Championship and Auburn beat Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl. They were selected as #1 in a few polls, but is their a shared National Championship? Umm.. No because USC won the game. (A 4th BS please??) So the point is BCS isn't the best system in the world, but it works. This past weekend some hearings were held in Congress about the BCS. They are claiming that isn't fair to non-Big Six schools. For example, Utah last year went undefeated and wasn't able to enter the National Championship, but they did kick Satan's butt in the Sugar Bowl so they get a big trophy in my book. So people are mad. I get it. My solution: it may not tailor to the "little schools", but I have a solution for them as well. So there needs to be a playoff, no doubt about that. When there is a playoff, usually controversy doesn't stalk it. I think the playoff should have the 6 conference champions of the Big Six getting automatic bids, then two at-large bids. The at-large bids can go to the little schools and they can win their way to the big game. If they still don't think that is fair, then they should be allowed to join the Big Six Conference of their choice. Heck Joe Pa (Joe Paterno) said this weekend that he wants Notre Dame to join the Big Ten and create a conference championship game. The ACC, SEC, and Big 12 have 12 teams in the conference, that could be the limit. Therefore, 1 team could join the Big Ten (like Notre Dame) and 2 teams could join the Pac-10 (like Hawaii or Utah and Boise State). If you notice I left out the Big East, it is because there are 8 teams in the Big East that play football at the Division 1 level but a total of 17 teams all together. So technically 4 teams could join there as football, but that might be stretching it, or IDEA!! Form a new conference with the Big East Football teams and 4 others. Okay not a great idea, but it isn't my job to come up with this stuff, I just blog about it. If they don't join a conference then they need to strengthen their schedule and get noticed.

So I know this was kind of a rant, but I had fun with it. What do you think about the BCS?? Should a playoff happen and if so how does it include non-Big Six teams in a "fair" way?

By the way: I do know I talk in parenthesis. I speak in parenthesis in regular conversation too. It is a bad habit that my mother makes fun of me for so yeah, get over it.