Five Things Wrong with College Football Today!

I have seen good and bad things throughout college football in my time. But this year seems to be the most talked about, and I'd like to give my two cents on it.

We have teams getting screwed out of the National Title game and teams getting in who don't need to be. And other things looking worse than they have ever been.

So here are five things wrong with College Football today.

5. Fans

Now don't get hasty, I am not saying that it is bad to be a fan of college football. I am a huge fan, but I have seen things with the fans that which need to be addressed.

If you are an Alabama fan, you know that expectations are always high with that school. No coach can ever be Bear Bryant, people, and that is why the Coach of the year trophy is named after Bear Bryant.

If the Tide were not doing well, you'd see a call for the resignation of the Alabama savior, Nick Saban. A team could be doing well one week and we fans love them.

The next week, they do bad and we think they are going to lose every game. Why do we do that?

Our expectations are so high on our teams that if they do well, we think they will never lose, but when they finally do, we think we have the worst team in college football. The fans are why coaches get fired, not the colleges. This brings me to my next point.

4. Coach Firings

We have had the worst year of coach firings to date. Guys who are proven like Philip Fulmer are being made to resign, when they are 100 wins over .500, how stupid is that?

It is dumb when guys like Tommy Tuberville, former coach of Auburn, is being forced to go. And then the University lies and say "oh we wanted him to stay, and we asked him many times, but he just said he had to go."

We all know it is false information they give us. Tuberville had one bad season in his career at Auburn. The other years were all winning seasons. As a matter of fact, Auburn went 13-0 a few years back.

He had won six years over rival Alabama and once he loses, he gets let go. But officially, he "resigns" of course. It is wrong when guys like Fulmer and Tuberville have to go, and guys like Charlie Weis stay.

Weis has been terrible at Notre Dame. The two seasons he had done well, he had Ty Willingham's recruits. Guys like Brady Quinn were there already. Once they leave, he gets his own recruits and they do horribly. What a coincidence.

3. College Presidents

Many people like where they go to school and their college President. But why are the Presidents a problem for college football?

Well they can make a college play-off, of course. See the NCAA can say they want a play-off, but all the presidents have to agree with it and vote yes.

They feel it will interfere with finals or make it harder to get students going to games. They believe that if they were to do a play-off it wouldn't make as much money for the schools than the bowl games would.

This actually is false because it would generate billions of revenue than the simple one bowl game. So we cannot point the fingers at the NCAA. They don't have the power to do anything unless the college presidents agree.

2. Players leaving early

We hear all the time that next season, he is going to be in the NFL. We keep hearing that he only cares about playing for the NFL, and blah blah blah.

Guys like Tim Tebow are examples. Sure he may not come out, but we keep hearing he will all freakin' season. We see that he is one of the best in college football today, and could be the second person to win two Heismans.

I love to see like it once was, when all the players finished college and then went to the NFL if they did go at all. People leave their teams to have a shot in the NFL. Some end up successful, but others do horrible in the NFL.

Leaving early is bad for the Player because he may need another year to polish his skills, and it's bad for the team for counting on him to stay.

And we hear all year that our best player will leave early. It is just bad for the game to me.

1. The BCS System

Of course you all knew it was coming, and that it would most likely be No. 1. The BCS has done a horrible job lately and some say every year since it was established.

A team like Texas who beats Oklahoma and Missouri and has only one loss on its record gets shut out of a Big 12 Championship game that includes both Missouri and Oklahoma.

Meanwhile, it is trying to get to the National Championship game, but needs to have a conference championship game to get there. Yet it gets shut out because the other team scored more points, sometimes beating less adequate opponents.

All the BCS cares about is points, if we had a play-off then we could see both the team who scores a lot and the team who wins its games. It should be settled on the field; instead, it is settled with a computer who does not see the games.

It is not fair to the fans, players, or schools. Something needs to be done about it. Our President-elect wants one, and he may get one before he dies, but not in the near future.

There are logical ways to make a play-off system work; you just have to sit down and think about it. Seeing teams who work their tails off to beat an opponent should be ahead of them even though they may have the same record.

It is just fact for that to happen, it is not fair otherwise. It should be the same as any other sport. Would the loser of a number one contender match in boxing go on to the championship fight? No, the winner would.

Just because he hit you more and got more points in other fights means nothing, you knocked him out and deserve to go on and be in the championship fight.

Well, I have said my peace and have given you my two cents on the five things I believe are hurting college football today. I'd love to hear your opinions.