(03-07-2010 10:05 PM)fishpro12345 Wrote: The BCS needs to be destroyed, and a playoff involving 4 final teams that the Committee proposed by Machen needs to play it out. The 'corporation he proposes needs to be comprised of all the commissioners of all the D-1A conferences, not just the 6 BCS elites. The money for the playoff needs to spill down to all the conferences in some fair, formulaic way that everybody feels they can have buy in. It may still mean the MAC is at the loewer end of the totem pole, but in the end, some system of bowls that all the conference champions compete in, would create some excitement similar to the field of 64, even if it were for 'bragging rights' for some of the lower conferences.
I like how the BCS system pits together conference champions.
Declaring one game the National Championship renders all of the other BCS games into second tier status.
The system would be better if they declared the champion after BCS bowls that way the results of each BCS bowl would factor into the decision making process.
Last year the money was distributed as following:
Non-BCS: 24 million
SEC: 22.2 million
Big Ten: 22.2 million
PAC-10: 17.7 million
Big East: 17.7 million
Big XII: 17.7 million
ACC: 17.7 million
FCS: 1.8 million
ND: 1.3 million
Army/Navy: 200,000
The Non-BCS got the biggest paycheck but represents 50 schools so that is really only 480,000 per non-BCS school vs. 2 million per SEC school.
With realignment out there, it will be interesting to see whether there becomes pressure to require a BCS conference to have 12 members.
For example:
Big Ten to 14: Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri
PAC10 to 12: Colorado, Texas A&M
Big XII back to 12: Colorado St, BYU, Utah, TCU, New Mexico
Can the Big East then afford to sit then at only 8 members? How about ND?
ACC to 14: ND, Pitt
Big E to 12: Temple, ECU, Memphis, UCF, and Buffalo
Then where does this leave everyone else?
MWC to 12: UTEP, Boise, Fresno, Nevada, Utah St, NMSU, SJSU, Idaho
CUSA to 12: North Texas, La Tech, FIU, MTSU
MAC to 12: WKU
Then the FBS landscape is down to 9 conferences. Is it then time to give everyone an autobid?
Add to BCS:
Cotton Bowl (Big XII host)
Capital One (Big East host)
Peach Bowl (CUSA host)
Motor City (MAC host)
8 bowl BCS rotation, top 16 teams, every conference ensured an autobid. Conferences like the MAC and CUSA would never get more than 1 team in a BCS bowl under this system but they would solidly have a major bowl to play for.