How To Fix College Football's Postseason: My Playoff Proposal

Dear NCAA football committee and to whomever else it may concern,

In light of recent events in the college football (meaning the last three year's of unfortunate events for way to many teams) many people have criticized the legitimacy of the Bowl Championship Series' ability to accurately decide and crown a national champion. 

It has been very controversial over the last few years and a large amount of people have debated about it time after time again. 

In the present times, we see teams like Texas, Southern California, Penn State, Texas Tech, and Alabama all kept out of the BCS national title game in favor of Oklahoma and Florida, although they all finished with the same record and some even in a three-way tie for their conference.

Teams like Boise State and Texas Tech were not even allowed to be in a BCS bowl game, while the other top 10 teams at least got BCS bowls. Boise State even went undefeated! (Due to corruption in Boise's case, and due to illogical and contradictory rules in Tech's case.)

What gives undefeated Utah the right to take it away from them?

Last year, we faced the same problem when 11-2 LSU made it to the title game over 11-2 Virginia Tech, 11-1 Kansas, 10-2 West Virginia, 11-2 Oklahoma, 11-2 Missouri, 10-2 USC, and 10-2 Georgia.

Missouri was this year's Texas Tech and they got left our of a BCS Bowl game!  (Undeserving 12-0 Hawaii got a BCS berth over them and proceeded to get demolished by Georgia, 40-11.)

And let's not forget about when 12-0 Auburn got snubbed from the title game by Oklahoma and USC in 2004. They were all undefeated and Auburn had one more win than USC.

Despite all I've said already, I am not writing this letter to criticize the BCS (no matter how illogical its methods are), insult it (no matter how contradictory its rules are), nor am I here to spew facts about its history to prove a point. (Well, actually I pretty much just did, but that was only the introduction.)

However, like in all other sports, the national champion should be decided on the field.

Not by computers.

That said, I would like to introduce to you my college football playoff proposal.

The way college football postseason should be

I believe that this playoff system (devised by me) will effectively determine the real national champion of every college football season.

Rule 1: There will be a 14-team playoff, with the top two seeds receiving a first round bye.

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