Once Again, the BCS Shows It Sucks

With USC’s pounding of Illinois last night, the failings of the BCS showed themselves again. So I propose the following replacement:

There will be 6 bowls in a playoff form: Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange, Capital One (with the Citrus name restored), and the Cotton Bowls. The winners of the 6 major conferences will automatically win a berth to the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls with the Big 10 and Pac 10 Champs facing off in the Rose Bowl (I don’t really give a shit above who plays in the other ones). In addition, there will be 4 at-large bids, with those teams facing off in the Capital One and Cotton Bowls. The winners of those games will face the lowest ranked of the conference champs in the Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls.

From that point, it will follow a typical playoff format with the venues of the other 6 bowls rotating hosting the National Semis and the National Championchip Game.

All the other bowls will continue to be played as they are now.

Under this system, everyone wins. The NCAA gets to whore itself out even more to the highest bidder for the rights to televised the games. And ESPN gets to keep it’s cash cow of pointless bowls named after a pizza chain’s website.

Of course, the university presidents will oppose this because, “Students will miss too much class.” Bullshit. The “students” on the basketball teams involved with March Madness miss a whole month of class (assuming that they even go to class) and during finals time to less. Hell, bowls games are played while schools are on “Winter” break.

So there you have it, my alternative to the BCS.

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