Not a fan of BCS, but it's the best solution we've got unless you want to extend the college season into February with a bracket of 16.
I'm going to let you in on a huge secret. There are college football teams that engage in a 16-team playoff series. It's a dirty little secret that the BCS and Division I athletic departments and media try to keep hidden from Division I fans.
Three out of the four college divisions that play college football have 16-team playoffs.
FCS:
http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/football/fcs
Division II:
http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/football/d2
Division III:
http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/football/d3
16 Teams
First Round: November 19
Second Round: November 26
Quarterfinals: December 3
Semifinals: December 10
Championship: Dec 17
I had an athletic director from a public BCS school with over 25,000 students and plenty of money tell me to my face that BCS teams doesn't have the resources to engage in a playoff series and that the players couldn't handle it.
And yet, Division III PoDunk University with 2,200 students and which is a private university has the resources to compete in a 16-team playoff series.
No offense to alumni of
the University of Mount Union which came in second to
the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the Division III championship.
I just find it amusing that a huge school with tens of thousands of students and alumni who donate millions to athletics doesn't have the resources to compete in a playoff series, but a privately funded university with 2,200 students does.