Bowl Championship Mistake: Why College Football Needs Playoffs

How many times have we heard the outcry for a playoff system in college football?

Seems to me those cries are loud enough but definitely not being heard by the NCAA hierarchy.

Last night, while watching the Kansas-Arizona basketball game, the commentators kept referring to the BCS and how they were glad such a system did not exist in college basketball. Both of them called out for that most college football fans have been screaming for: a playoff system.

Could you imagine the BCS being applied to basketball to figure out who is #1 and #2 in college basketball? There could be 15 different top-ranked teams over the course of a season.

When the BCS was created, it's creators thought they had found the solution to the controversy over choosing the best college football team in the nation.

Yet, in the ten years that the BCS has been around, how many times has it gotten it right? There is only one year I can think of where the BCS had no problems: 2005.

One time out of ten years? If you ask me, this is not a very good success rate.

If you want success, look at March Madness.

How many people in the nation play these "Bracket Challenges" and will root for teams other than their own to win just because they like their colors?

The answer: a lot.

The reason: unpredictability.

This is why March Madness has the reputation it has.

To be honest, if it wasn't for March Madness, I wouldn't give a hoot for college basketball. It could be the greatest sport ever and I wouldn't care because there wasn't a playoff system.

If you look at all the sports that have playoff systems, you find that there is one true champion each year out of the sport. There is no co-national champions or co-world champions. Well, ok, maybe in professional wrestling can you have Tag Team Champions but that is the only co-champions you have outside of college football.

I think the commentators said it best last night, "College football is getting to where any team can beat anybody on any given night."

To prove this statement, don't look any farther than the Boise State-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl and the 2007 football season.

With that level of unpredictability, the sport is just calling out for a playoff system.  Unfortunately, the BCS honchos don't seem to hear a peep...