[hinckley buzzard]

I am glad to see a rising tide of opposition to the obscene fascist BCS uberstate. I demand we return to the glorious days of yesteryear--four Bowls, with the Rose Bowl the uncontested queen, attended by the Orange, Sugar and Cotton Bowls. All the rest can scramble for TV time between December 15th and 31st. I think the Liberty Bowl used to kick off on the 15th. For what it's worth.

For the championship we should have the coaches' poll and the writers' poll and that's it. If they disagree on number One, so be it. They disagree--great stuff for conversation and argument through the long cold winter ahead.

Nobody profits from the current whorehouse arrangement except degenerate gamblers and other lower life forms.

[VicVega]

I know you meant to include the Sun Bowl. You have to give props to El Paso. It's as old as the Orange and Sugar Bowl.

[ExpatGator]

Yeah, of course the Rose Bowl should be “undisputed queen” of bowls. Everyone knows that they have the best teams out West. Haven’t they won like the last 5 or six National Championships!?
Oh, wait, that would be the SEC. Sorry. My mistake......hehehe.

[Ingtar]

Oddly enough, the SEC and other conferences proposed a four team play off years ago. It was vetoed by OK State’s conference. I find that quite ironic.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm no fan of the BCS, but I think it's an improvement over the method used to pick national champions in prior decades. The period from 1980 until sometime in the mid-1990s was something of an anomaly, because the AP anc Coaches' poll system was biased towards independent schools for national titles. This was because the major conference champions were locked into specific bowl games, while top independents always had the ability to accept a bowl bid that matched them up against a #1 or #2 ranked team. This is why teams like Penn State, Miami and Notre Dame had a disproportionate number of national championships in that era compared to any of the conferences.

It was rare for a Big Tem or PAC-10 team to win a national title back in those years, because the champions from those two conferences got automatic Rose Bowl bids and never had the ability to play a #1 or #2 team from another conference, or among the independents.