The year was 1998. The powers that be
in college football decided that they were tired of having split national champions
at the end of the season. "Why don't we institute a system that crowns one
unanimous national champion?" they asked. It was then that the Bowl Championship
Series (BCS) was born. It was planned to be the "end all, be all" solution
to name a national champion at the end of the college football season. Fast forward
to this season in which we have 5 undefeated team, 3 of which have legitimate
claims for playing in the National Championship game, however one gets left out..
This must stop. A playoff is needed. And here is how it can be accomplished. First:
Get rid of the computer rankings in the BCS formula. The computer rankings
are unnecessary; they need to be removed. After they are taken out, the BCS formula
will look like this: BCS = Poll average - (Winning % of D-1A
opponents) + Losses - Quality Wins To see what the final BCS
standings would have looked like this year, see below.. Second:
All teams will play an 8 game conference schedule, with the schools having the
option, as is now, of playing additional games non-conference games. Third:
At the end of the last regular season game, the final BCS standings will be calculated.
These rankings will not change from here on out. Fourth:
The top 2 teams from each of the BCS conferences (potentially deccided by
a series of tiebreakers) will play in a conference championship game. Simply stated,
the ACC, Big 10, Big East, and Pac 10 will need to add a championship game while
the Big 12 and SEC will keep their games in place. The losers of these games will
not be hurt in the BCS standings, as they are in the current system. (because
of this, in our standings we listed LSU and Virginia Tech as only having 1 loss,
since their second came in the SEC and ACC title games.) Likewise, Georiga does
not get quality win points for their win over LSU. Fifth:
The 6 winners of these games will receive an automatic bid to the playoffs.
The top 4 conference champions who have the highest BCS ranking will receive byes
to the second round of the playoffs. Obviously, the conference champ with the
highest ranking would get the first seed, the next highest would get the second
seed, etc. Sixth: The next 8 highest ranked teams in
the BCS would get the 5-12 seeds in the tournament. | 
