I’m not omitting anything. Obviously top to bottom BsCS teams are better funded and generally get the very best recruits. I get it. More times than not, the BsCS conference teams will end up on top.
All I am saying is that at every level from pop warner all the way to the NFL, and in virtually every sport, there is a playoff to determine who the champion is on the field/court/arena. Heck, even my church basketball and city flag football leagues have playoffs. Why is it so hard for college football FBS, or whatever they call it this week, to just strap up and prove ON THE FIELD who is the best team in the land? Expand all conferences to at least 12 teams with a championship game in each. Take the winner from each conference, plus a few deserving at large teams and play for a true championship. Why is that so dangerous when its being done at every freakin’ level except FBS?
A playoff may have ended up with Texas and Alabama in the championship game or maybe some other team that got hot at the end of the year. But we will never know because some computer geeks, coaches and irrelevant sports writers annointed two teams to play for a “championship.” And that is just wrong on so many levels.
Alabama, Texas et al already have an advantage BECAUSE of their conference affiliation. And yet you hold that against nonBCS schools when its virtually impossible to schedule a decent BCS team, especially to a home & home series. You can’t attack Boise and TCUs schedule without at least ackowledging that both Texas and Alabama scheduled some laughable games this year. Chattanooga? North Texas? LA Monroe? Are these the types of games you schedule if you are chasing a national championship? That is exactly WHY you need a playoff. Just winning the Big 12 or SEC should not automatically get you into a championship game.
I understand what you mean. I used to feel the same way. I found that the benefits of the playoff system don’t outweigh the current costs, which are very exciting games played by kids who are enjoying themselves and watched by kids who are enjoying themselves.
If we had a playoff nobody would’ve been watching Iowa-GT last night.