BCS Vs. Playoff System In College Football

BCS vs. Playoff System In college football, the BCS system has been around since 1998 and has become well established. The BCS system is well established but has accumulated much criticism over the years due to inefficiencies with the system. Like history shows, as time passes, people find better and more efficient ways to do things. In this case, a large percentage of college football fans would like to see college football take on a playoff system versus the traditional BCS system. According to collegefootball.procon.org, 85% of college football fans support changing to a playoff system, according to a 2007 Gallup Poll. The BCS system has been great and has had a good run but based on the results, the fans are ready for a change.
The playoff system would allow for smaller schools to have an opportunity to play in the national championship. A couple years ago, the Utah football program went undefeated throughout the whole season but was not given a bid to play in the national championship because they were a small school compared to the powerhouses, such as Oklahoma, Alabama, LSU, Florida, etc; the same goes for Boise State who defeated powerhouse Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, on their way to the national championship but were not given a bid because of the BCS system. Some argue that they should not have been given a bid even though they went undefeated because the strength of their schedule was not equal to powerhouse teams. With the new playoff system, it would allow teams like Utah or Boise State to prove whether they belong in the national championship or not through the process of elimination versus computer generated polls. The playoff system has been adopted in college basketball and a large percentage of football fans would like to see college football do so as well. The number one and number two teams at the end of the season would not automatically win a bid to the national championship but would have to defend their number one and two seeds throughout playoff play to the national championship. It may not sound good to a number one or number two seed team but
You can almost predict at the beginning of the season who will be in the national championship or who will be in the running to play in the national championship because each year it happens to be a team from the SEC. Here is a list of teams that have won the national championship since 2006: Florida (2006) (SEC), LSU (2007) (SEC), Florida (2008) (SEC), Alabama (2009) (SEC), Auburn (2010) (SEC), and Alabama (2011) (SEC). The last six national championships have been won by SEC conference teams when there are twelve conferences in Division 1-A football. People can argue about why the BCS is better or why the playoff system would be better, as they both have positives and negatives but looking at that large of a margin of SEC success versus other conferences is pretty major. It is clear evidence that the BCS system supports powerhouse football schools over smaller schools. One could say that it is fun to watch one conference dominate all of the other conferences but the fans have had enough and are looking for change. According to a national survey conducted by Quinnipiac University, 63% of fans favor getting rid of the BCS system in favor of the playoff system as only 26% say that they want to keep the BCS system. The playoff system would be beneficial to fans as it would add entertainment, to the media as it would provide more stories and reviews,