Champions are made on the fields, arenas, pools, tracks, courts, lakes, rivers, not by the BCS, coaches, pollsters or the media. Presently, the whole collegiate season is wrongfully a form of a play-off and that’s how the schools and the BCS get around not having a bona-fide play-off system. Until the colleges and universities have a real authentic play-off system of the eight highest ranked teams after the completion of the regular season games, the anointing of any team under the present discriminatory system is flawed.
Four of the biggest stumbling blocks to having an eight team play-off are the college presidents, athletic directors, the PAC 10 and the
Big 10. The PAC 10, Big 10 and the Big East refuse to have a championship game, so why are they or any other non-BCS conference that doesn’t have a championship game included in the BCS rankings? So what we have in the instant case are two or three relevant bowls and all the rest of the bowls seem to be filled with
7-5 and 6-6 teams. The reason NCAA basketball is so popular is that you have a real champion. The SEC from top to bottom is the strongest conference in the land and like the Big 12 and ACC have legitimate championship games while the PAC 10, Big 10 and the weaker Big East have no championship game but they are rewarded for not playing a championship game in the final BCS rankings before bowl invitations are extended.
The above mentioned conferences, sponsors, Chambers of Commerce, college presidents throughout the country will never let a play-off happen in college football because the bowls are their gravy train and their perpetual cash cow. If some corporate sponsor would put up an astronomical amount of cash, those ultra conservative college presidents would agree to a true play-off system where a true champion would be determined.
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