Football championship still puzzles fans

By Kevin Goode
Paraglide




December 15, 2011

Every year like the winter is cold, I can count on at least one of my friends coming to me whining about the bowl championship series.

Since it’s inception in 1998, the BCS has decided which two college football teams would compete for the national championship by using a series of polls, computer programs and mathematical equations.

The problem: In most instances, the BCS has pitted the number one college football team versus the number two team. But, there has always been room for debate on whether the two teams participating deserved to be chosen because it wasn’t decided on the field.

In all college sports, some variation of playoff is used to decide which team or individual is the actual champion, but the only exception is college football. The BCS leadership in large part ignores fan’s desire for change because college football is a cash cow in its current format and produces millions of dollars annually. Leadership knows college football fans want a playoff system. Why should the BCS change?

College fans (me included) want a change, but are we really willing to do what it takes to make that happen? The path to change is not an easy one.

The solution: In order to garner BCS leadership’s attention, don’t attend the game and don’t watch the game on TV.

You read it right. Don’t even watch highlights.

Hear me out. Fans have more power than they realize. As long as there isn’t a playoff each year between college football’s programs, there will always be a question among fans. Fans deserve the right to determine who is truly the best by who won on the field and not what was decided in a think tank with a computer and some polls.

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