Proposal for Reform of the College Football Post-season
College football is the only sport in which there is no playoff system in its postseason. Bowl games are at various sites around the country instead are played, in which two teams are rewarded for a winning season and play each other with festivities such as possibly a parade occur in the days before the game. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was established in 1998 to attempt to match up the best two teams in college football in the last bowl game of the year to solve college football's dilemma of not always having an undisputed national champion. Using a formula that combines poll ranking, toughest of schedule, computer rankings, and losses, the BCS, who consist of the "Big Six" conferences (ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 10, and SEC), has had controversial national title match ups. Because of the controversy there have been calls for a playoff system. The BCS Commisioners and its supporters have several reasons why they wish to keep the current system. Bowls have been apart of the sport of college football since the first bowl game took place on New Years Day 1894 when the University of Chicago played the University of Notre Dame. The sacred traditions of the sport are an integral part.
a respective champion. Currently, with twenty-eight bowl games it allows fifty-six different teams, coaches, alumni, and its fans to go make a holiday trip to celebrate their There is one irreconcilable issue. The argument of leaving teams out of the championship picture. The supporters of a playoff can always make the case that there was more than one deserving team of a shot at the national title under the Having a postseason playoff would generate more excitement. In a sixteen team playoff for example that would be fifteen games that would all be to decide the champion. All bowls, even the minor bowls, would increase gate and television revenue due to the significance of the games and the quality of higher ranked teams. All bowls will capture a greater television audience and revenue, because the major bowls will not be competing against one another on January 1st for viewership (Hales 192).
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