A College Football Playoff System for Dummies

Something needs to change at the end of the college football season. 

While so many teams get to go to a bowl game as a reward at the end of the season, I always seem to feel unsatisfied once the season ends.

This year will be no different.  No matter who is playing in the BCS Championship game at the end of the year, there will be questions as to who really is the best team.

Got to hand it to the BCS. It is an endless wellspring of unintended consequences. They are like Wile E. Coyote. It has to be the single greatest source of how-did-that-happen snafus in human history.

Oklahoma jumps Texas into the Big 12 championship game and, with a victory over disappointing Missouri, into the BCS Championship Game.

Yeah, that's the same Texas that beat Oklahoma by 10 points on a neutral field less than two months ago. Only in college football could we have a system that overrules the most basic evidence possible for deciding which team is better: head-to-head competition.

Also, you may be eliminated from a BCS Championship by having just one bad half.  Just ask the USC Trojans about that lonely Thursday night in Corvallis.  Because of one bad half, they will have to sit on the sidelines and settle for another Rose Bowl.

Imagine if that happened in the NFL.  When the Giants, who are arguably the best team in the NFL, lost to Cleveland back in October it was not that big of a deal because they have a playoff to settle things.  If the NFL used rankings and computers, the Giants' season would be over after a loss like that.

The NCAA did not use polls and computers to decide it liked Memphis' overall season better than Kansas' and awarded the Tigers the 2008 national basketball title. The Jayhawks earned what they got in the Alamodome.

But that's basketball, which tends to settle the same things on the court. Whereas college football prefers things settled by microchip and guesswork.

So here is my simple and effective plan to have a college football playoff:

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