Selection Sunday Start Time: Why College Football Must Copy Selection Process

The NCAA Tournament selection process, which is set to unfold on CBS Sunday evening at 6:00 PM ET (CBS Selection Show), is one of the more exciting moments in sports and a style of unveiling that college football would be wise to copy.

The BCS Selection Show pales in comparison not only because college basketball's playoff style format is much more exciting than individual bowl games that have no satisfying champion, but because fans already know where a majority of the teams are headed thanks to automatic qualifiers. 

College football would be better off ditching the BCS points system and gathering a selection committee to handle the bowl matchups at season's end. Instead of pitting the top teams together according to the BCS, they could compare and contrast playing styles and rivalries to create the best battles for fans.

The surprise factor of this style of reveal would boost the BCS Selection Show ten-fold. Although an eight-team playoff format would add an entirely different dimension to college football's selection process, it can still be improved with no damage to the current bowl structure. Baby steps.

The next step in making the college football selection process more exciting and enjoyable for fans is to find some more provocative analysts to join in on the conversation. Bring on Lee Corso and let him go on a two-minute rant about which overachiever got snubbed from a major bowl. 

College football must create uncertainty and surprise. There is none of that right now because fans can look at the BCS standings week after week and eye the current bowl matchups, even the championship matchup before it is announced.

The college football selection process runs on a Sunday night, which makes almost no sense. After a day of watching NFL football fans are going to prime themselves for Sunday Night Football, not an unveiling of five or six underwhelming bowl games that we will have to wait six weeks to see.

College football would be wise to copy college basketball and the NCAA Tournament selection process, because only one of them has it right.