The BCS BS (and a way out of it.)

[Lancer6]

First, let me say that none of what follows has to do with my particular allegiances re college football. It just so happens that my favorite program is in the center of the firestorm.
Before I state my case for a solution I'm going to offer a justification for the naming of Oklahoma as winner of the Big 12 South...it's called The Positive Point System and has been used in high school football here in Texas many times before.
Ready?
TU beat OU by 10=10 positive points for TU, 10 minus points for OU.
TTU beat TU by 1= 1 positive point for TTU, 1 minus point for TU.
Score so far: TU +9, TTU +1, OU -10.
Then OU mangled TTU by 44 points= 34 PP for OU (44-10)
So, among the three-way tie guys, OU won the Positive Point match by a wide margin.
Agree or disagree, it is what it is.
Onward!
Simply put, the system as it now exist just doesn't work. Texas gets screwed because there's no playoff system (NOT because OU was "chosen",) as will several other winning teams. Witness Auburn a few years ago...13-0 and no chance to win the C'ship; Unfair in every category. The champion of the SEC ignored? It was a screw job then and would be a screw job now. What about Utah? Boysandgirlsie State?
As the season progressed I heard supporters of then-unbeaten teams say "Playoff? We don't need no steekeeng playoff!" Well, as teams suffered a first, even a second, loss the attitudes changed, at least among most. After all, a playoff would now be the only way to prolong their hopes, however bootless, of playing for the MNC.
Establishing a Playoff System: OMG! It'll be hit-or-miss at first and there will always be someone claiming their team got the shaft, but at least performance on the field will be the determining factor. There'll be fewer shameful performances on ESPN by Mack Brown (during OU's game v. OSWho, no less,) and no more editorializing by geniuses such as Kirk Herbstreit and other talking heads.
As I see it the reasonable concerns center around who gets into the playoffs in the first place. The simple solution might seem to select major conference champs and a small number of wild cards. OK, but let's face it; Some conferences, more specifically their champs, have no business being on the same field with even third place teams from other loops. Witness Oklahoma State, a three-loss team that could wallop a lot of other conferences' reps, and then there is TU, then TTU, a team that just happened to run into a Crimson 'n Cream buzzsaw or they'd be in KC this Saturday, "Chasing Daniel".
The selection process can never be perfect but it will be a lot closer to perfection (and deemed more fair,) as the years go by. I'm afraid, however, that the initial field is going to have to number more than, say, eight, in order to minimize whining from the "left-outs", many of whom would be justified in their chagrin.
There'll need to be a lot of Strength of Schedule consideration given in selecting the last few participants.
When you start talking sixteen, which means eight first round games and also means four weeks of playoffs before the RNC (no more myth) is decided, then you have howls from the academic-minded, rage from various bowl interests, and God-knows-whom-else. Still, over time, sixteen as the magic number would likely be a success.
Face it, the lesser divisions of the NCAA have made it work. The big guys can too.
The "Major League" of college football is the only such entity that does not have a championship that's won, cleanly and without doubt, on the field. It's time for that to go away.

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