Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Why not BCS?

Just listen to me here for a second. For the last couple of months, I've been hearing people complain about the BCS system in college football and how it should be stopped because it's unfair. Well It just seems like it's unfair when ever your team loses and doesn't make it as far as you want them too. Trust me I've been their. Ever since last year I thought the BCS was a little stupid, unorganized, and Untrusted. But once LSU got the good end of the BCS deal and got a bid to play in the national championship, I became a BCS fan. It's exciting. This year LSU's out of the race by about 2 losses but it's still fun and exciting to debate the rankings and who should be where and why. If it weren't for the BCS than the T.V. ratings would go down because of the lack of interest in the games because every game doesn't matter since you'll make the play-offs anyways. Obama can't do any thing about it until 2014 and the NCAA looks pretty stiff at this point. I think that college football is riding on the BCS system and it's making the players play harder and work harder because every week is a play-off. With the BCS system then every week can and WILL decide your destiny, whether you like it or not. The thing about the BCS that frightens people is that if their team loses once than they drop in the rankings and it's that much harder to get to the championship. Fans of teams in larger conferences don't want their season to be over when they lose once. They'd rather get another chance and see more match ups. But lets be real. If their WAS a play-off system, then WHO WOULD DETERMINE THE TEAMS THAT WOULD GO TO THE PLAYOFFS? The AP poll? The coaches poll? What about the BCS? I think that the BCS is fine right now and if you think your team got the wrong end of the deal, then they'll come back next year to show it. The BCS is based off how good the team does the next year. For instance; the Georgia Bull Dogs went 10-2 last season without a SEC championship. Many college football fans were arguing that they should go to the National Championship instead of LSU. Other fans wanted Undefeated Hawaii to go. So what did the BCS do? It Put those two teams against each other in a BCS bowl. Hawaii got blown out and as for Georgia, instead of coming back this year with the help of the #1 pre-season ranking and dominating other teams, they lose to a blow out to Alabama and lose another Blow out to Florida.
In the end, the BCS makes the right desision. Every team gets a chance. Whether they take advantage of it or not, is their choice.

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