Conference Commissioners: Playoffs? You're talking about Playoffs?!

I've been reading over the past few days about the controversial topic of a college football playoffs system. And, well, after a season like we had this year, maybe it is time to change the system after the current contract expires in 2010.

Today on ESPN.com, the University of Georgia's president proposed an eight team playoff, stating that, “It would make for better competition for the National Championship.”

According to popular belief, it would also prevent such poor performances from certain teams in the championship game like we’ve seen the past two years. The playoffs would in fact eliminate the weak and allow for a highly-contested national championship game.

Of course, one cannot assume that all the BCS games would be close—but it would certainly reduce the number of games that become so one-sided to the point that viewers want to change the channel.

Another article found on ESPN’s web page (Final Four proposal Jan 7, 2008 ESPN.com) states that some of the conferences that make up the BCS system have agreed to make the change—the Big-12, SEC, ACC and Big East. But there is still considerable opposition from the Pac-10 and Big-10.

College football has in many ways been a game for fans, and in order to keep it that way suggestions and public opinion need to be brought up to the NCAA.

The NCAA may argue that it has certain contracts that it has to respect because, after all, there is always the business side of things. We as fans don’t want this to become a monopoly in which the fan is excluded from decisions being made. But instead of solving the problem the BCS has created in recent years over who should compete for the National Championship, they've taken a turn for the worse.

Common ground has to be found on this issue. As the commissioners of their respective conferences meet to discuss this topic over the next coming weeks, we will see what they decide the new method of crowning a national champion will be.

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