R.I.P. Bowl Championship Series

Someday in a future more sane than today, the winners of all twelve FBS divisions will have play-offs to determine a true national champion college football team. 

 

Until then, we humbly offer a completely, totally and purely objective poll which ranks teams on the basis of nothing other than wins and losses. 

 

No subjective opinions, no quality of wins, no traditions, no weighted statistics...just wins and losses determining who's best.

 

Which, let's face it, is the way it should be. 

 

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What's THE Solution? 

Simple.  Do what's already being done in virtually every division of every other collegiate sport: play-offs among conference champions.

• eliminate the "Mythical National Championship"
• add at most 4 games to the schedules of the final two teams
• make about 14 bowl games far more significant than they currently are...which generates more interest which in turn generates more revenue
• eliminate the need for and value of all polls altogether (since conference champions aren't determined by rankings)

The most elegant solution would be:

• add 3 more conferences to the BCS and make the current "Independent" group a conference.
• keep 10 teams in each conference.  This would move about 30 teams up from the 111 teams in the FCS.
• have a first round play-off in 8 eary-to-mid december bowl games of the 16 conference winners.
• have a quarter-finals play-off in 4 late-December bowl games
• have semi-finals in 2 New Year's Day bowl games
• have the national championship game just as it is now, usually at the end of the first week of January.

The few tired rejoinders against such a patently obvious solution won't be dignified by recounting them here.  Those arguments change at least as often as the BCS polling methodology does, which implies they're just as spurious.

Suffice it to say that the system is worse than useless...it's detrimental to the sport.

In the meantime - and at the very least - remove all subjective factors from the rankings. Use the RIPBCS objective poll methodology to determine the BCS rankings.

What is the RIPBCS Objective Poll Methodoly? (click)