What is your opinion of the BCS?

Question

What does everyone else think of the current setup of division 1-A college (american) football?
Is it fair?
Is it effectively working to give us an accurate picture?
Is there a better system?

Don't just give me your opinion- tell me why...

Answer 1

it is horrible but it is tough to change it for the good. the only thing i can think of is to make every bcs conference have a championship like the big 12 or none of them like the big 10, otherwise some teams like kansas and missouri this year have to play a difficult team at the end of the year instead of just playing out there schedule and going to their bowl games

Answer 2

Ok to answer your question(s) in order all we need to do is look at all other divisions of american football from pee-wee football to NFL with the exception of division 1A college football everyone else has a fair play-off system.The current BCS system is a joke,because it relies to heavily of the computer rankings and not on the actual play on the field.No it is not fair that that it does not give the smaller non-BCS schools a chance at the National championship. I don't believe the BCS system gives us an accurate picture of who is the best team in the country. For my reason why,just scroll up and read my opinion again. Yes there is a better system Play-offs is the only way to go if you want a true Champion in Division 1A. Take the Six Major conference champions and give them automatic bids,take the two highest ranking at large bids whether they are independants or a high ranking smaller conference and have an 8 team play-off. Seed them according to their poll ranking,and have #1vs. #8,#2vs#7,#3vs#6,and #4vs#5 play in week one. The winners in week 2 example#1 vs#4 and #7vs#3 and the winners of those two games would play for the National Title.Also the teams with the highest rankings would have home field advantage throughout the playoffs as long as they continue to win. Have a nuetral site for the Championship game just like the NFL does,but have it rotate through what the old BCS bowls were to keep some tradition.Now the NCAA would have to limit theregular season schedule to 10 games allow an 11th game for Conference Championships,and have no more than 3 playoff games for a total of 14 games to determine the National Championship. Now to address Bowl Games. I say let them stay in place and if your team doesn't make it the playoffs but goes 7-3 or 8-2 they still should be allowed to play in minor bowls with the highest one being the Cotton Bowl and working down the flights of the bowls.But all playoff games should be over and a National Champion crowned by no later than Jan.7th. Which means starting the playoff in December.

Answer 3

Take out the "C."

Look at the current scenario if everyone stays "as is."

LSU would play Kansas for the title. So, if Kansas wins, then they would be the outright national champs. But what about Hawaii if they stay undefeated? Who's to say that their offense wouldn't be able to match up against KU's?

Also, what happens if KU loses in the Big 12 title game? Just because they couldn't stay undeafted, does that mean that they don't deserve a shot at the title. LSU couldn't do it either. Neither could Ohio State. So KU is going to be punished because they have to play one more game than OSU. The same could be siad for LSU and the SEC title game.

Also, who votes on these polls? What makes these guys unbiased and knowledgable enough to decide who is the best team in the nation? Some of these guys have admitted that they don't even follow college footbal until the very end. And some don't follow it unless it involves their alma mater. Also, what about the coaches that have an ax to grind with other coaches and AD's in the nation. I am sure Frank Solich would no way vote for Nebraska if they were a top team. The same goes for any Bowden and Spurrier.

The only true way to determine the best team is to let go into a playoff system and play for it. Forget the polls and popularity contests and let the players fight for the title. If NASCAR can develop a playoff race, I don't understand how college football can't.

Answer 4

Well playoff systems are always the way to go as there is no question to who should be crowned champion. We have the BCS system in college football to take away the the human factor in some of the big games and keep from letting bias stop a unknown or little team from getting up in the bigger games if they played the better SOS.

The big issue is that colleges and the NCAA and everyone makes more money in the system we have now as controversy and the debate always keeps the memories and the specific game going for years. This is not the perfect system and I dont really care what they use as long as there is a game.

Bowls are nice, but the overall way anything can ever work is a true playoff system starting with EVERY conference having a conference championship and not just a few giving them an unfair risk of having to play yet another top notch team in their conference who has maybe seen them once and can make that adjustment and knock them from that top spot. Teams from Big Ten and Pac-10 and such have no risk as they are done and no true championship, but they can get bypassed as a team right behind them plays a conference championship and wins the big game and passes them up.

I wish there was a way for the NCAA to set up a better schedule for all teams and not allow them to only have a soft schedule. If you are in the SEC yes you can have a couple cupcake games, but you need atleast one true out of conference match up as well if you are in the WAC or that level you need a tougher out of conference match up and maybe two of them to give a better barometer. I like Hawaii, but they wont be able to keep up with anyone really in the top 25 and they are undefeated, but they play teams like San Jose St and such.

Schedules need to be balanced and the BCS then may work, and the Michigans, USC, and so on if you get beat by a cupcake you should drop out the top 25 like everyone else, not stay in due to who you are.

Answer 5

I think it is the most biased monopoly that the world of sports has ever known. It is certainly not fair when the arguably best team in the nation can be unbeaten yet not be allowed to compete for a title, instead giving the title to a defeated team on the basis of conference. ( Boise State last year and Utah the year before)
It is only effective if you are one of the "in" teams, the rest of them have all opportunity and financial resources strangled away from them.
The system used by all other sports that are similar is a play off system. This allows a team to "show us what they've got" instead of choosing a BCS princess champion.
The BCS is set to expire in 2011 or 2012, but the teams that benefit so much at the expense of the deserving will not let it go quietly. So fair or not, I don't expect a change. In the end, it's all about the money.

Answer 6

Most people disagree with the current setup due to controversies on which teams play for the national championship every year. I do not think it's fair because the win-loss record plays too much of a part in determining the rankings. take this year for example, kansas and missouri are ranked very high but their schedule is certainly not as tough as other teams who are ranked lower than them. The BCS does not reward teams enough for playing tougher opponents. Also, conference play plays a big role in the BCS rankings. Certain conferences are tougher than other conferences so it is harder for some teams to win more games because of the tougher conference that they play in. take for example again this year, Kansas plays in a very weak Big 12 Conference that only feature 3 or 4 good teams and the rest are not so good. Kansas has not been tested at all so far. A team like LSU play a very tough conference schedule not to mention playing a tough nonconference opponenent in Virginia Tech. Computer scores only play a part in the rankings but should play a bigger role and votes from coaches and sportswriters should count less.

The current BCS does not effectively work to give an accurate picture. Teams playing harder schedules and are consistently tested on the football field are not rewarded while teams who play easier schedules are ranked very high due to all of their easy wins.

A better system would be a playoff. I believe the BCS is adequate enough in ranking the top number of teams but not deciding who plays for the national championship. The top ten teams should play a playoff system to decide who goes to the national title game.

Answer 7

It is an absolute joke. A playoff is the only way to go. The system that decides who plays where goes on...

1. Biased human polls - Missouri's only 1st place vote in the AP poll came from the only AP voter in the state of Missouri, Greg DeArmond, Kansas City MO Star. Also, the Coaches are always biased.

2. Idiotic computer rankings - One of the computer rankings factored into the BCS actually has the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks of Division II ranked higher than Tennessee, USC, Oklahoma, and all but 11 Division I-A teams. The Elo-chess of the Sagarin's ratings which are also used by the BCS have Northern Iowa ranked higher than USC, Tennessee, and 95% of Division I-A teams as well.

Answer 8

Its not fair......I would have loved 2 see Boise State go up continue in a playoff system nd Oregon nd Auburn nd Utah have been screwed in the past this is what I do............Cut one or two games out of the regular season nd use the BCS to pick the top 11 teams (but if a major conference winner is not in the top 11 like UCONN might then they replace the number 11 team). The top 5 teams get bye nd the bottom six play. This leaves the 2nd round with 8 teams nd they continue the tourny

Answer 9

it is a joke. it is about money. i have always said that the NCAA should make up 16 conferences. Place teams according to location. Make the season start and end the same for all teams. top team from each conference goes to 16 team playoff. winner is national champ. (if you still want bowls, take the losers from each week and have them play in the upper tier bowls.) there would 8 upper tier bowl games. the lower tier bowls could be invitational bowls from teams that don't make playoffs.

Answer 10

This is one of the oldest arguments in sports history, year after year there's a boise or a utah, or even usc before they went on their championship run the first time around.

It happens year after year, its not fair, it doesn't even get close to showing who's the better team...and a playoff system is the only way.