BCS Rankings: How Broken System is Greatest Gift to College Football

The BCS rankings and subsequent bowl selection process is the worst way of determining the conclusion to any sports season in any sport. The system is completely broken.

And that’s what makes college football the sport we love.

People will sit and complain all day about what college football is doing wrong and what they should do instead, but when the time comes to watch the games, they all feed into the machine.

The BCS machine runs on money and in a society that puts such a high regard on money, that’s the perfect representation of life. The top schools like LSU and Alabama are the rich, powerful people while the Boise States of the world are the middle-class teams.

People want to root for the middle class, the underdogs, but the BCS cuts through the storylines and gives the people what they want.

Even when they don’t know they want it.

While LSU playing Oklahoma State for the BCS National Title would be a good game, far less people would care or bother to watch it on television. Alabama, on the other hand, will draw in a huge national audience.

More people will watch because more people care. Caring people pay money and money makes the world go 'round.

A playoff system would halt the unfathomable amounts of money that comes in for the 35 bowl games the NCAA puts on every year. The people who control things will not allow the want of the people to sway what is the proper way of doing things while making enough money to keep them going.

It has become obvious that the experts on college football who advocate a playoff system don’t truly know the business of college football or how it works behind the scenes. They have become extended fans instead of rationalists like they should be.

The business of college football is one that will always be there. As long as there are colleges willing to play, the BCS will run the big show their way and give the people what they want.

If you don’t want a LSU vs. Alabama BCS Championship Game, you just don’t get it anyway.

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