Does NCAA Football Need to Abandon the BCS for Playoffs?

Bowl season brings more griping, but its defenders say the system's a proven winner

By U.S. News Staff

December 31, 2009 RSS Feed Print

Each year, teams and fans on the outside looking in at the NCAA national championship game­—undefeated Boise State and Texas Christian University, for instance—feel cheated by the Bowl Championship Series. And the accusations are made so loudly that some, including Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, feel Congress should consider stepping in to push for a playoff system. "The principal goal of the BCS is not and never was to fairly determine a national champion," Barton argues in the new issue of U.S. News Weekly. "It was designed to maximize revenue for its members while limiting true competition." Bill Hancock, executive director of the BCS, counters that its detractors need only look at this year's national championship matchup of the two best teams in all the polls—Alabama and Texas—to see that the system works. What do you think? Should the NCAA scrap the BCS system in favor of playoffs? Take our poll and post your thoughts below.

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You have a glorified monopoly of SEC teams who have one or two good teams every year, where as you have the Mountain West Conference who has the BEST Bowl record out of all the conferences. Including this year with a 5-1 record in bowl games. But yet, not one MWC team has even the slightest chance of going BCS no matter the circumstances.

Take Utah a few years ago, we all know they would have smeared the field with the BCS champions Florida. But yet not even a chance. I mean come on, Alabama got TRAMPLED, it was a joke and a laugh to watch.

"FIND ME ANYBODY ELSE THAT WENT UNDEFEATED. THIRTEEN-AND-ZERO. BEAT FOUR RANKED TEAMS. WENT TO THE DEEP SOUTH AND SEAL-CLUBBED ALABAMA IN THE SUGAR BOWL"

Then you have Boise State who has lost 1 game in two seasons, and not even given a close bowl game to the BCS.

My feelings are that some of these bigger BCS given schools are scared that these "No Name" schools will blow the scoreboard out on them, which would be embarassing.

I watch football very closely, and TCU or BSU would have beat Alabama and Texas this year... Both BCS teams were a drop in talent and greatness from previous years and it's starting to show.

The Judge of CO 4:37PM January 20, 2010

People who love college football don't want a playoff system. People who just like college football do want a playoff system. These morons would happily decimate the greatest tradition in college sports just for the satisfaction of reading some college team they more than likely don't follow or know about won #1 that year in a system they declare fairer than the current system, even though mathematically and logically it isn't. And then when college football has been cheapened by these reactionary know-nothings they will move on to complain about something else. May the NCAA never give in and never join in pretending that a playoff is not stupid, ruinous, and somehow more fair.

Frank of OH 8:31PM January 15, 2010

why change it?why change it? Because the best sport, out of all sports, does NOT have a true champion. The big boys are covered but the mid majors on down are screwed. Do you ever think a boise state team (that by the way is the most winning team of the 21st century) would ever be champion? no! because the system is corupt just like congress... DEATH TO THE BCS!!!!!GO BRONCOS!!!!!

josh t of ID 6:01PM January 03, 2010

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