BCS Take Note: March Madness Is About To Show You How to Do It Right

The BCS has been an argument that has been heated year in and year out. There seems to be a disagreement on which teams should be in the national championship game and which teams shouldn't even get a shot at a BCS game, period.

Well, you're in luck BCS, because March Madness is about to show you how things are done and done right. While there are arguments about which teams are left off the field of 64, you can't argue against the team that wins the national championship because they have to run somewhat of a gauntlet to get there.

There are teams that get in and that are left out.

That happens every year when March Madness rolls around. But the argument never lasts longer than the first round of the tournament, where the BCS arguments continue even into the next season or even in to two seasons later. Do we see a pattern here?

So why does the BCS, and a lot of fans, think that a version of March Madness wouldn't be good for college football?

Would a playoff really be that horrible?

Guess what, for certain conferences who are sitting pretty right now, yeah, it might be very harmful to them.

March Madness eventually pits the best against the best by the third or fourth rounds of the tournament. College football, on the other hand, won't put a noteworthy game together until the fifth or sixth week of the season, though are exceptions.

Let's say, for example, that Florida matched up with a Texas Tech in a first-round playoff game in a college football playoff system.

If Florida was defeated and was out in the very first round, wouldn't they be out a whole lot more money than if they were just handed a spot in the national championship game?

You better believe they would.

So the truth of the matter isn't that college football couldn't handle a playoff system, it's the fact that teams from the major BCS conferences, not to mention the BCS itself, would be out a lot of money.

It's funny to me how so many fans of those same major BCS conferences can watch their basketball team and love March Madness so much, yet they don't want to enjoy that kind of excitement in football.

So, while you're sitting around in your office or at home tomorrow filling out your brackets, racking your brain about who you're going to pick those teams, take a second to wonder what it would look like if this was college football. 

How many teams would be in a playoff system?

I hear the argument all the time about how college football could never handle a field of 64 the way college basketball does.

Yet aren't there upwards of 30 bowl games on the bowl schedule?

There is no question in my mind that college football can handle a playoff and that it can be just as good if not better than March Madness. The only question remains is whether or not the BCS will ever get out of the way and let the sport run its course.

What may force their hand is a total conference realignment among several major football conferences. If that happens, college football may not have a choice but to put a playoff system in place.

Until that happens, we'll continue to enjoy the greatness that is March Madness and look at, with skepticism, the "madness" that is the BCS.