College Football BCS Analysis

College football has been around for many years, and the BCS part of the bowl system has been in place since 1998. Many could say this was the year that one of the worst post-season sporting systems was put into place. It has done many things good and bad. It has caused a lot of controversy, gained universities tons of money, and frustrated many college football fans around the nation. With good comes bad, it is about outweighing the negatives with positives, and this is not something the BCS system is accomplishing. The BCS system should be changed to implement a playoff type bracket, because it would give a much more equal opportunity for the “best team” to be the champs, end controversy, and still allow companies and universities to make money from games.
Many people believe that leaving the selection process up to voting and computer rankings is incorrect. As of now there are six BCS automatic qualifying conferences. This means the champions from each of these conferences has an automatic berth into a BCS game, leaving out many of the other great teams across the nation. Although it does make sense to take the champions from every conference and place them into games, too many teams are left out due to being smaller and not generating as much revenue. Changing the BCS bowls into a playoff bracket would allow for a better opportunity for many schools. John Ziegler noted, “The BCS conundrum is one of the most frustrating issues because the solution is so incredibly obvious and yet, no matter how close the powers that be get to accidentally finding it, they somehow still manage to only make things worse.” (Ziegler pg 1). He also shares the opinion of having playoffs, but has his own idea of how it should go. Keeping the computer choice as a piece of his