Now these bowls will carry a win-or-go-home stipulation in some cases, and that is only going to increase interest and viewership. College football fans have the utmost respect for tradition. The sport was built upon it, and it's important to keep it alive. With that said, tradition has a way of making things stale at times.
That can be said for the marquee bowl matchups under the BCS system. All of the top bowls are attached to at least one conference, and that limits what can be done. For example, the Rose Bowl almost always has to be Pac vs. Big Ten, so there is definitely a lack of variety. That won't be an issue when it comes to the College Football Playoff since the best will play against the best regardless of conference affiliation.
That may not be appealing to purists, but the vast majority of college football fans will welcome the change. It's time to build a new tradition when it comes to bowl games, and the College Football Playoff will allow that to happen. Follow MikeChiari on Twitter.
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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. BCS Know How. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. You can count me among those who favor a playoff. The Sooners have generally been shown a whole lot of favor in the BCS rankings, and that looks to be the case again this year provided they keep winning. Why am I so against the BCS? I'm actually against the heavily entrenched system of "ranking" teams in sports.
I think that it really makes no difference what rankings say, and I think that it is a horrible method of determining postseason play. It's fine for power rankings, but that's about where I think it should end. The reason I do a BCS post every week on Crimson and Cream Machine is to show our readers where the Sooners rank, because the BCS is the method used to determine postseason play, and I think that everyone should be informed. The ranking system is flawed because you are assuming that you can place teams in some sort of hierarchy in which one team is better than the other.
However, this is not true. Sports are about winning, championships, and what you do on the field. Professional football, basketball, baseball, and hockey all employ playoffs at the end of the year, and teams that are guaranteed spots won their division. Because that's the way that it should be. You could argue to me that Alabama is a better football team than Western Kentucky, and I wouldn't argue with you.
Is that true? How can you definitively say that when both teams are undefeated? The idea that the regular season is a playoff is somewhat true and somewhat of a farce. I think that it's true in the sense that you need to emerge from this playoff relatively unscathed to win your conference. However, in general the conference champions have not had a chance to play each other and determine which of those teams is most worthy to play for a national championship.
The regular season is the playoff that determines who the best 10 to 15 teams in college football are, with little doubt. Sure, you can argue about whether a team deserves to be 15 or 16, but in general that doesn't matter a whole lot. The problem arises because, with a few exceptions, the teams in the top 10 have not played one another, so you are relying on a whole lot of assumptions and subjective comparisons to decide who plays in the National Championship Game.
Basically, the regular season is a playoff to determine who the "elite" teams are, but often that "elite" category includes more than just 2 teams. In some years, the system works - there are two undefeated teams who clearly deserve to be ranked 1 and 2, and they face off in the National Championship Game. The average of all three parts totals is than taken to produce the BCS standings. Even if Boise State and TCU go undefeated this season there is no absolute guarantee that either will go to the national championship if Auburn and Oregon go undefeated.
Or even if Alabama bounces back Why? People complain that these teams don't have the right or have't earned the right to be ranked in the top five. In reality there is not much these teams can do about who they play.
This allows more BCS conference teams to move higher in the polls, whilst non-conference teams have only two or three games in their schedule that can help them advance in the polls.
But why not let the stats speak for themselves? TCU, ranked third, leads the country in scoring defense, allowing nine points per game, and have surrendered only 10 points combined in their last four games, Boise State, ranked fourth, is the number one defense team in the nation, and Utah, ranked fifth, is third overall in points for and sixth overall for points against. For the first time in the Mountain West conference's history, two teams in the top five of the BCS polls will meet.
This week both Auburn and Oregon play non-ranked teams.
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