The BCS sucks! Period! And I am tired of it! Time for a playoff. The BCS drives me absolutely bonkers and it helps me cope with its stupidity to come up with something that would actually work. Check it my 6 rules of Bowls and Championships. Yeah, I was busy over lunch.
Rule #1: If you do not have a winning record, you should not get a bowl bid. That means, if you are 6-6, you are S.O.L. Buh Bye Iowa, New Mexico, Florida State, Oklahoma State, Alabama, Minnesota, & Miami. If you cannot play above .500 ball, what makes you think you should go to a bowl? As big a college football fan as I am, I won't watch a single one of those games because those teams absolutely do not deserve to be playing.
Rule #2: Ditch a few of the bowls. There are WAY too many bowl games and it tarnishes the goal of getting to a bowl in the first place. 7-5 should even be a longshot to get to a bowl and a bowl with an actual sponsor in it's name is a joke. Come on...the Meineke Car Care bowl?
Rule #3: During each team's season, eliminate one or two of those creampuff games and make it an 11 game season if your conference does NOT have a championship and a 10-game regular season if your conference DOES have a championship. That means, every team at the end of the season has an either above .500 or below .500 record with 11 games played and you are bowl eligible with a winning record only. When all the bowls are completed, all non-BCS Bowl teams will have played 12 games, 4 BCS teams willhave played 12 games, 2 BCS teams will have played 13 games, and 2 will have played 14 games to decide the champion. 14 games too much you say? After the bowls this year, 9 teams will have played 14 games, so that argument doesn't work.
Rule #4: You are not allowed to host your own bowl, ever again. No more Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl; No more Boise State in the Humanitarian Bowl. From now on, you travel just like every other team.
Rule #5: The BCS stays AS IS, but is used to facilitate an 8-team playoff. Let the best team win the title outright on the field. Never again, will there be controversy. The best team will actually WIN the whole shootin' match by virtue of their play.
Rule #6: That said, you will need 6 BCS bowls, not including the Championship: Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, and Rose Bowls are joined by the Cotton and the Peach Bowls. Rotate them around like before for first round and second round.
An added bonus to having a playoff is that the two teams playing for the championship will be playing at their best and not rusty like they are today after 2 and a half months layoff.
Now, the bowls as they SHOULD be THIS year, keeping in mind that another half dozen of these bowls should probably be ditched, as indicated:
12/19 - Ponsettia Bowl
TCU (10-2) vs. Northern Illiinois (7-5)
NO CHANGE
12/21 - Las Vegas Bowl
BYU (10-2) vs. Oregon (7-5)
NO CHANGE
12/22 - New Orleans Bowl
Troy (7-5) vs. Rice (7-5)
NO CHANGE
12/22 - International Bowl
Western Michigan (8-4) vs. Cincinnati (7-5)
DATE CHANGED FROM 01/07 to 12/22 - why should a lower tiered bowl play the same week as the big boys?
12/22 - GMAC Bowl
Southern Miss (8-5) vs. Ohio (9-4)
DATE CHANGED FROM 01/07 to 12/22 - why should a lower tiered bowl play the same week as the big boys? THIS BOWL SHOULD BE SCRAPPED!
12/23 - PapaJohns.com Bowl
East Carolina (7-5) vs. South Florida (7-5)
NO CHANGE BUT THIS BOWL SHOULD BE SCRAPPED!
12/23 - New Mexico Bowl
NEW MEXICO DROPPED!
SAN JOSE STATE MOVES TO EMERALD BOWL
BOWL SCRAPPED!
12/23 - Armed Forces Bowl
Utah (7-5) vs. Tulsa (8-4)
NO CHANGE
12/23 - Hawaii Bowl
Arizona (7-5) vs. Texas Tech (7-5)
HAWAII MOVES TO INDEPENDENCE BOWL
TEXAS TECH MOVES OVER FROM INSIGHT.COM BOWL
12/24 - BCS Cotton Bowl
Ohio State (12-0) vs. Wake Forest (11-2)
12/24 - BCS Peach Bowl
Florida (12-1) vs. Boise State (11-0)
12/24 - BCS Sugar Bowl
Michigan (11-1) vs. Oklahoma (11-2)
12/24 - BCS Orange Bowl
Louisville (11-1) vs. USC (10-2)
12/26 - Motor City Bowl
Central Michigan (9-4) vs. Middle Tennessee (7-5)
NO CHANGE
12/27 - Emerald Bowl
San Jose State (7-5) vs. UCLA (7-5)
FLORIDA STATE DROPPED!
SAN JOSE STATE MOVES FROM NEW MEXICO BOWL
12/27 - Meineke Car Care Bowl
Boston College (9-3) vs. Navy (9-3)
DATE CHANGED TO 12/27...WHY DO WE HAVE A MEINEKE CAR-CARE BOWL ANYWAY? SCRAP IT!
12/28 - Independence Bowl
Hawaii (10-3) vs. ????
OKLAHOMA AND ALABAMA BOTH DROPPED!
HAWAII MOVES FROM HAWAII BOWL
NEED AN OPPONENT - HAS TO BE ANOTHER TEAM OUT THERE WITH WINNING RECORD
12/28 - Texas Bowl
Rutgers (10-2) vs. Kansas State (7-5)
NO CHANGE
12/28 - Holiday Bowl
Texas A&M (9-3) vs. California (9-3)
NO CHANGE
12/29 - Music City Bowl
Kentucky (7-5) vs. Clemson (8-4)
NO CHANGE
12/29 - Sun Bowl
Missouri (8-4) vs. Oregon State (9-4)
NO CHANGE
12/29 - Liberty Bowl
Houston (10-3) vs. South Carolina (7-5)
NO CHANGE
12/29 - Insight.com Bowl
MINNESOTA DROPPED
TEXAS TECH MOVES TO HAWAIII BOWL
BOWL SCRAPPED!
12/29 - Champs Sports Bowl
Purdue (8-5) vs. Maryland (8-4)
NO CHANGE BUT THIS NEEDS TO BE SCRAPPED!
12/30 - Alamo Bowl
Texas (9-3) vs. Nevada (8-4)
IOWA DROPPED! ARE YOU KIDDING? THEY LOST LIKE 5 OF THEIR LAST 6!
NEVADA MOVES FROM THE MPC COMPUTERS BOWL
12/30 - Tangerine Bowl - Formerly the PEACH Bowl
Virginia Tech (10-2) vs. Georgia (8-4)
NO CHANGE
12/31 - MPC Computers Bowl
MIAMI DROPPED!
NEVADA MOVES TO ALAMO BOWL!
BOWL SCRAPPED!
12/31 - Outback Bowl
Penn State (8-4) vs. Tennessee (9-3)
DATE CHANGED FROM 01/01 to 12/31
12/31 - Gator Bowl
Georgia Tech (9-4) vs. West Virginia (10-2)
DATE CHANGED FROM 01/01 to 12/31
12/31 - Capital One Bowl
Arkansas (10-3) vs. Wisconsin (11-1)
DATE CHANGED FROM 01/01 to 12/31
01/01 - BCS Rose Bowl
Cotton Bowl Winner vs. Peach Bowl Winner
01/01 - BCS Fiesta Bowl
Sugar Bowl Winner vs. Orange Bowl Winner
01/08 - BCS Championship
Rose Bowl Winner vs. Fiesta Bowl Winner
That's it. It works, it generates big-time money, it restores the legitimacy of bowl games, and it crowns a champion.
College Football Playoffs!
