re: What Is Wrong With The BCS?

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I don't doubt that the bowls are a positive experience for those players at mid-major schools. However, I think it has been shown that those schools will not be impacted by a playoff. They simply play in the bowls as they always have.

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I hear what you're saying, but my biggest concern with that line of thought was dealt with in that article as well:

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how many of those elusive ad dollars from the ESPN hype machine be diverted from promoting the smaller bowls to promoting the upcoming playoffs? And once a plus one or two system is allowed, how long before public outcry demands an expanded playoff field, pushing round one further and further back into the bowl season? Once Pandora’s box is opened, it can never be closed again. Likewise, once the smaller bowls lose their prime time TV slots, the bowl system, as we know it will be lost forever.

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Think about the NIT compared to the NCAA tournament. Once you establish a "playoff" system, any team that isn't included truly will be considered irrelevant. I just honestly don't think the bowls would survive, and the number of bowls would eventually be DRASTICALLY cut down, limiting the amount of teams that could give their players that experience.


I love the current system, but if a playoff is inevitable, I could live with a plus one system, and I think the bowls could survive that as well.

But I would HATE anything more than that. Honestly, has their ever been a year when more than 4 teams could legitimately claim they deserved a shot to play for a national title anyway??

Anything more than 4, and it's a money play, plain and simple. And the smaller bowls and the teams that play in them will be cut out of the bowl experience eventually.