by E. Spencer Kyte, Bugs and Cranks
I understand that my being Canadian and the fact that our University league allots points for missed field goals might weaken my position for some of you reading this, but at least hear me out. Gimme a chance...
The BCS and the never ending series of Bowl Games that mark the culmination of the NCAA Football season is absolutely useless. It doesn't decide anything, yet despite it's countless critics, it continues to roll on.
LSU and The Ohio State University will meet in the BCS Championship and we're supposed to believe that whomever wins that game is the "National Champion." But what if undefeated Hawaii steamrolls whoever they play in the Ridiculously Named Corporate Sponsored Bowl? Where I'm from, no losses is better than one loss, regardless of who you played.
I know I'm not the first - hell, I'm probably not even the 44,491st - to say this, but wouldn't a tournament just make a lot more sense?
Logistically speaking, the five weeks between when schools played their last games and the BCS Championship game would serve as a perfect period for a 32-team, kick-ass tournament where a no room for debate champion would be crowned.
Schools and teams are already used to playing every week, so the five games in five weeks in nothing new for the two teams fortunate enough to make the finals. And if you think March Madness draws great crowds and ratings, think about the possibilities when it comes to football.
Yes, there would be millions of dollars lost by not playing the Meineke Car Care Bowl and the Chick-Fil-A Bowl and the Vagisil Bowl and so on and so on and so on, but couldn't those same sponsors channel their financial contributions to different rounds of the tourney and whatnot? I think they could.
Think about it: you get the top 32 teams, match'em up and let'em have at it for five Saturday's in a row. Maybe LSU and Ohio State would end up in the last game of the year all over again, but maybe not. Maybe someone like Georgia keeps rolling along or Tim Tebow and the Gators do their thing five weeks straight.
Just the possibilities are enough to make this the smart decision. The drama, the energy and the intensity of it all would be insane. It's not going to happen, but hell, here's to thinkin' about it anyway...
Friday, December 7, 2007
FROM THE GREAT WHITE NORTH: BCS BS
Posted at 2:52 PM ET
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Do you really think that a tournament can decide the two teams deserving of playing for a title better than a system designed to evaluate all teams under as similar criteria as they can come up with over the course of an entire season?
Doesn't a tournament simply tell us who the best two teams over the course of those 5 weeks are?
The BCS tells us who the best two teams are over the course of an entire season. Those are the two teams I want to see in the championship game.
Hawaii doesn't play anyone and that is why there being undefeated doesn't put them in a championship game, no matter where you come from.
The BCS is a fantastic system. It has flaws but its flaws are so much less severe than all other playoff formats. College football is the only sport that can say that the best two teams are playing for the title because of their system and not because of chance.
If you want to argue that the BCS stinks, I think the appropriate argument is not that it doesn't get it right most of the time, but rather that it destroys the chance of a cinderella story, which is pretty fun to root for.
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