With the way that all of the conferences looked this weekend, I think that it is appropriate to bring up the issues surrounding the BCS and the structure of conferences.
It seems that college football has fallen into a great imbalance: Ohio State, USC, and Oklahoma have no worthy challengers within their conferences, while the ACC and Big East, albeit with a couple of contenders, have fallen to a level that is below mediocrity.
Then you have the SEC, which has many teams that can win the conference. When they get a shot at all of the marbles, they have collectively gotten the job done an extremely high percentage of the time.
All of this has led to disaster after disaster with the BCS due to the fact that the BCS rankings depend largely on a team's record, which can be greatly affected by the difficulty of the schedule that a team faces that year. That has been the story the past couple of seasons, and the early signs say that it probably won't change.
Something needs to be changed with the current system because the same thing seems to be happening. College football fans are getting tired of the same old arguments and watching the same old teams sit on the top—and watching the same old system get it all wrong.
What is really ironic about the game of college football, though, is that fans whine and gripe about all of the things that are wrong with college football—but at the same time we just can't get enough of it. Now you know the problems that I have with college football, but it is also important to get the ideas of other people.
If a group of college football fans were posed with the question, "What is wrong with college football today?" possible answers to that question might sound something like this.
1. The BCS
It stinks, and it is not a fair system. It has failed us many times over again, yet we return to our own vomit every time. It failed us in 2004 when an undefeated team SEC team did not get the chance to compete for a BCS title.
Last season was a disaster. A whole lot of teams had two losses, yet teams got eliminated from the national championship in the conference room, not by losing on the field.
People who justify the BCS say that, although it is not a good system, there are no better alternatives to the BCS, which makes the BCS the lesser of all evils.
There are many college football fans who disagree and would argue that we can find a way that teams are eliminated from championship contention by players on the field, rather than stinky greedy old men in conference rooms.
2. Conference Disparity
If the rest of the country did not know already, after this weekend it should be clear that the SEC is head and shoulders better than every conference in the country. The projected No. 6 SEC team, Alabama, flat-out embarrassed the projected No. 1 ACC team, Clemson.
The Alabama-Clemson game sent a resounding message to the rest of the country: The SEC is light years ahead of everyone else, in a league of its own as the first ever super-conference.
No conference has as many contenders year in and year out. It is pretty clear that six teams have a legitimate shot at winning the conference this year: LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee.
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