re: For All Playoff Proponents Check This Link Out

This is not the end all, be all of solutions. You obviously are way too focused on records to actually realize what could be even a bigger sham.

The way you guys see it, record is all that matters, which is utterly stupid. There is a lot more to it than just records and to ignore that shows how stupid proponents of the BCS system are.

Here are just a few things this writer and YOU seem to overlook:

1) strength of schedule. It is quite easy for some teams to go 10-6 or better with an easy schedule especially if one division is super tough while another is easy.

For example, imagine that the NFC North has two teams at 12-4, while the NFC South has all four teams at 9-7. The NFC North was a two horse division and they lucked out and played the NFC West which gave them all 4 wins, and then they only lost once in division to each other. They then played the AFC West, which sucks arse, and gave all their teams another 4 wins. At the same time, the NFC South matches up with the AFC East (by far the toughest AFC division, and they split some games. They then face the NFC east which is likely the other tough division in the NFC. They split again.

So NOW, you have just put in two teams from the NFC North who lucked out based on scheduling, while the 4 better teams from the South get left out.

GENIUS!

2) College football is not the NFL. Teams aren't all on par as far as resources. Plain and simple. Look at tOSU last year. They played absolutely no one and were rewarded for that. OU? Played a div 1AA team and was rewarded. Texas Tech? Played 2 div 1AA teams. The fact remains that their is way too much difference in college to NOT have a playoff.

3) Conference CHAMPIONSHIPS. Not the game in college football, but the actual championship. This year, people ACTUALLY used OU's OOC to say they deserved the Big 12 championship game more than UT. This was utterly stupid as it was a CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP that should focus on the teams play IN Conference. This wasn't the fault of the BCS, but of the Big 12's stupidity.

4) Injuries and weather. Teams may get a disadvantage of WHEN they play another team. Had the Saints played both Tampa and Chicago on different days when they lost to them, they most likely would have won those games, but things out of their control affected them while NOT affecting say Atlanta or Carolina.

This list could go ON and ON.

The reality is that you have to have some type of leveling the playing field in the game, and its not there. It will never be perfect. Also, if you have teams play twice a year in division, you are simply going to reward teams that play in crappy divisions/conferences and that got lucky and played crappy cross conference teams.

In the end, while these systems have their short-comings changes won't solve the problems, and will likely cause more in the NFL. In college, you limit it to just 2 teams and they are arbitrarily picked by voters with bias.

I dont mind the BCS. Its been good to LSU. A playoff wouldnt bother me either, but a team or two every year will be screwed no matter the system.