I want a playoff. Many people want a playoff. But, we aren't getting a playoff. Instead we have the BCS rankings. The biggest problem I have with the rankings is that we fail to use them.
It used to be that the BCS ranked the top 15 teams using their formula. Now they rank the Top 25. Why?? Essentially, all we need are the Top 2 teams to decide the championship game and the rest may as well be thrown out the window.
So, if we have these rankings....why not use them?? If we have #1 v #2....why not have #3 v #4?? Why not have #5 v #6?? And so on?? Place the matchups into a bowl game that makes sense geographically, if possible, and let them go at it. Use 14 bowls to place the Top 24 BCS teams into. If the teams that are ranked next to each other are from the same conference [like #3 Penn State and #4 Ohio State]...then go to the next ranked team.
ROSE [Pasadena]: #1 USC v #2 Texas
FIESTA [Tempe]: #3 Penn State v #5 Oregon
ORANGE [Miami]: #4 Ohio State v #6 Notre Dame
SUGAR [Atlanta]: #7 Georgia v #8 Miami-FL
CAPITAL ONE [Orlando]: #9 Auburn v #10 Virginia Tech
OUTBACK [Tampa]: #11 West Virginia vs #12 LSU
COTTON [Dallas]: #13 Alabama v #14 TCU
HOLIDAY [San Diego]: #15 Texas Tech v #16 UCLA
GATOR [Jacksonville]: #17 Florida v #18 Wisconsin
PEACH [Atlanta]: #19 Louisville v #20 Michigan
LIBERTY [Memphis]: #21 Boston College v #23 Oklahoma
ALAMO [San Antonio]: #22 Florida State v #25 Northwestern
Then do the other 14 bowls in whatever way needed.
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Ah...the big issue is money and affiliations.
As long as the bowls have an affiliation with certain conferences, this won't happen.
Look at Oregon. Ranked in the Top 6, yet doesn't get a BCS bowl bid.
As a former police officer, we were always taught....follow the money...
Enjoy.....
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