The BCS system when choosing a national champion in football is totally unfair to all the good players at college programs in this country. How I understand it to be is: if you’re a big-money college program that plays football in a major college conference, that makes you eligible to compete for a national championship.
All other college program do not have a chance to compete for a national championship because of the unbalanced rules and unfair ranking system.
There are many outstanding football programs in the country and I’m sure they would be more willing to compete for a national championship instead of playing in some meaningless bowl game.
When the NFL goes to scout players, they don’t look at players from only the BCS schools; no, they look at all the players who played college football. It would make sense to only scout players who play in the SEC or Big Ten-Pac 10. So my point here is to give all football programs a chance to be ranked in the top 25 and have a playoff system centered around the bowl games.
The fans who enjoy college football have asked for a playoff system when the games are played on the field and not predetermined by a college poll or a newspaper poll! In my opinion, there are too many days off between the last game of the regular season and the first bowl game.
Certainly the time is there to have an actual on-the-field playoff, either the top 12 teams or eight teams or whatever! Play the game on the field! I also got to thinking about how do we know who can really beat who?
There are smaller lesser-known college programs that upsets major college programs. You see this happen all the time during the NCAA March Madness tournament.
Upsets happen every other hour that past; the fascination of March Madness where every team has a chance at winning on the court and not in some worthless poll.
Some of the arguments I’ve heard about a playoff system is that it would hurt the precious bowl system or that it wanted hurt the student athlete because of missed class time. To those arguments I say, so what. They did use the college players in all sports as unpaid labor.
These college athletes are not there for an education. No, it seems to me that they are there to make money for their institution of higher learning and if they get a degree then that’s okay, too.
Make no mistake, that big-time college sports is about big money, big games on TV and even bigger money come tournament time along with big-money coaches making their big salaries on the backs of young athletes.
College football is huge. The game is very popular with millions of fans enjoying the games every Saturday afternoon but if your team loses its first game of the season or a game in the middle of the season then their chances are over to play for a national championship.
To me, that makes no sense because teams do better as the seasons goes on. Circumstances do change therefore, a playoff system is so desperately needed. I’ve never understood why college athletes are not paid, especially those athletes who receive a full scholarship.
What I’m saying here is the money is there to pay college players. You can increase the worth of a scholarship to allow weekly or biweekly stipends to these hard-working and over achieving college student athletes.
If you can pay a college coach more than $1 million per year, then you can find a way to give some of that money to the players.
These college coaches would be nothing without these kids. It is the players who make college coaches and their college programs strong and sometimes, many of these college athletes leave college without obtaining a college degree but are giving 110% of their blood, sweat and tears to make that college program a success!
