I can’t imagine anyone who follows college football at this point (with more than ½ a brain) can believe that the system we have now is a good one. It is a joke that we are going to now have 5 teams with legitimate reasons to be in the National Title game and we have to pick 2. Why pick 2? Why not just have a playoff system? It really is not as difficult as the NCAA and the presidents would want you to think. You could even include teams from the lower conferences, so they won’t complain. Here it goes, my solution to this problem known as the BCS.

1. Move the season up one or two weeks depending on whether you want a bye week at the end of the season before the playoffs start.

2. Play the season as it is being played right now, no changes to conferences, conference championships, or anything like that.

3. At the end of the regular season, you take the winner of each BCS conference. This season that would be LSU (SEC), USC (Pac-10), Ohio State (Big 10), Oklahoma (Big 12), Virginia Tech (ACC), and West Virginia (Big East).

4. Also, you include the winners of the non-BCS conferences. This season that would be Central Michigan (MAC), UCF (Conference USA), BYU (MWC), Hawaii (WAC), and Florida Atlantic(Sun Belt).

5. Then the five highest rated teams that are left are added as at-large teams, but not more than one at-large per conference. This season they are Georgia, Missouri, Arizona State, Boston College , and Illinois.

6. Then you seed them with the BCS conference champions taking the first 6 seeds and then the last 10 seeds would be split among the other conference champions and the at-large teams. This season that would be something like Ohio State, LSU, Va. TEch, Oklahoma, USC, West Virginia, Georgia, Missouri, Hawaii, Arizona State, Illinois, BC , BYU, Central Florida, Central Michigan,  and Florida Atlantic.

7. The first 3 rounds are played directly following the season, before the bowl season begins. This leaves the championship game to be played, as it is now in early January. The teams that are left will be filed into the other available bowl games depending on how they fair in the playoffs. If you wanted a bye week in between the end of the regular season and the playoffs, the season would need to begin closer to the beginning of August. You could also get rid of the twelth game that was added a couple years ago.

Now that would leave us, with a system that allows teams to play it out on the field, brings in more revenue for the NCAA, does not leave the little teams out, or eliminate the bowl system. I’m sure there are flaws to this systems and I would love to know about them so I can tweak this accordingly. I hope that many of you agree with this idea because if nothing else, it’s better than the #### we have now.