I think the vast majority of college football fans would love a playoff system. Too much tradition money has been invested in the bowl system with corporate backing. I could see even more money being pulled in with a playoff though.

And as for this season, as much as I love my Big Ten teams, they were all such a joke this year except maybe Penn State. Iowa and Ohio State will get slaughtered, again, in which ever bowl they go to. I've become increasingly disappointed with the college football schedules. Teams only play maybe 6 challenging games and the rest are just about gimme's. Witness University of Michigan's season.

And you mentioned Boise State's undefeated season. Don't get me wrong, being undefeated is an accomplishment, but there's a big difference in the teams Boise played and the teams Alabama played. It's asinine to consider the teams equal. Playoffs would be great.

TCU may be the best. If you have not watched them, they have one heckuva lot of speed. They handled Utah very easily, and you remember what Utah did to "Bama in the bowl last Jan don't you? TCU should be in the title game.

What!,you say, who are they. Oh, just a team that's going undefeated this year and years past. They started out beating a good Oregon team. Their schedule could be tougher but ... Fresno State lost to Cincinnati by 8 points and Boise State beat Fresno State by 30 (or so) points. They should be #4 at least and in one of the key BCS games. I think they'd beat anybody above them handily. But they're in the wild West Athletic Conference built for offense and high scoring. Still, they're the spoiler. No reason for Texas of Florida to have easy schedules. But they do have huge TV audiences in those states. Not much in Idaho so Boise State gets shoved aside. They have not moved from #6 for weeks now.

The sport is too demanding on the players to allow more than a game a week. Consequently playoffs and bowl games are decided by a single match, which is hardly a fair way to determine the better team. Either team could be having a particularly good or poor day. The away team may have trouble adjusting to the stadium, the crowds, or especially the climate. Injuries can play a huge difference in outcomes, especially in pro games.

Criticisms about the BCS or any other post-season structure are at their core a reflection of the inherent capriciousness that is associated with winning a football game. At least with baseball or ice hockey there are several games used to choose advancement and ultimate victory during the post-season. With football, you have to take the title "Super Bowl Champ" or NCAA National Champion" with a big dose of skepticism and just enjoy the games for the quality of certain key plays or the performance of a particular player.

By the way, you could make the same argument about tennis or basketball tournaments, except there is one mitigating factor that allows the public to accept the winner as a true champion. To get to the finals of these tournaments you have to win 8 or more consecutive matches, quite a bit more than required for the Super Bowl. The final winner may have lost to any one of the players on some other occasion, but stringing together all those consecutive wins can be construed as an accomplishment worthy of a winner.

For some reason, the sport of golf does not lend itself to post-season play. The whole FedEx Cup exercise is too complicated and unconvincing to allow the public to view the winner as demonstrably better than everybody else.

Consequently, taking into account all these academic arguments and the abstruse element in deciding a national collegiate football champion, it must be agreed that Boise State is unquestionably the only team worthy of that honor in 2009, because I once visited that campus and it looked like a good place to go to college.

I always liked the Conference-level bowls better--more games, with more opportunities for the hoi-polloi to get out there and cheer their team while freezing their butts off.

"National Champion"?? Baloney...it's more fun to argue the merits during the off-season of each respective conference's champion than to put together some national-level tournament. Just give the players more opportunity to get career-ending injuries before they get the chance to 'go pro'...undesirable and unnecessary.

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