\"Fixing\" college football -- let\'s see your solution
College football fans: if there is one thing that we can agree on for the most part it's that the current system of choosing a champion is imperfect. At best, it's flawed, and at worst it's downright horrible. So, my question for you is, what would you replace the current system with?
My idea:
1) Go back to the traditional bowl games and abolish the BCS.
2) Allow the conferences to schedule their own games (using transparent methodology).
3) Teams will be allowed to choose three out of conference games of their choice (consistent with conference rules).
4) Each team will have one mandatory bye week.
5) The NCAA will schedule one out of conference game for each team. This will be done by a "competition committee." The purpose will be to act as a mid-season "playoff" game. This will place teams judged to be of comparable quality against each other. Obviously this will be an imperfect, subjective process, but the purpose will be to try and eliminate as many teams from being undefeated as possible. They would alos try to avoid like bowl matchups (so no Pac10 versus Big10, etc). (Likely match ups for this system if it were run this year might be UC-Berkeley vs. Florida, LSU vs. tOSU , and USC vs. Oklahoma.)
6) A National Championship game will be held ten days after the premier bowls. This will occur between the two teams voted #1 and #2 in the current coaches poll.
Not perfect -- far from it. The main purpose of this system is to preserve (read: restore) the integrity of the old bowl system, while trying to maximize the possibility of eliminating as many undefeated teams as possible.
One flaw is that this system might be so effective, you have 4 or 5 one loss teams clamoring for a national championship bid. Hopefully the traditional bowl games can fix some of these problems (e.g., one loss tOSU vs. one loss USC in the Rose bowl). It's not perfect, but I think it might be better than what we have now.
I'm interested to see the obvious flaws in the system that I was too air headed to catch. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] (Or to hear what you would change.)
So, what are your ideas?
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