Everyone seems to have an opinion on a College Football playoff system, even President Obama. So I figure I should also share mine.
In my world, you cannot go undefeated and not have a chance to play for a championship. I don't care that Hawaii lost 41-10 in a Bowl last year. Leading up to that game they were the only team to go undefeated in all of college football. They MUST have a chance to win the championship. They took care of business in every game. If there were 3 teams that went undefeated than I have no problem with strength of schedule being a TIEBREAKER...it however cannot substitute for a teams wins and losses. Utah should have had a chance to play for the national championship...They went undefeated. How can you have a championship game if the only undefeated team has no chance to win it?
Do not throw out stats, rankings, polls etc. They DO NOT MATTER. Wins and losses matter before anything else. Not strength of schedule, tradition, rankings, polls, sports writers, revenue, TV ratings. None of that should matter over wins and losses. And in fact they do. I love sports so much, that I believe you have to throw out all of those other things. They are a part of the game, but none of those external factors of sports can substitute for what actually happens on the field by athletes. The outcomes of games should be what matters and nothing else. It is a sham that 110 football players at Utah worked their tails off for a season and won every game they played. They completed all of their tasks, and yet they didn't get a chance to play for a championship. Politics prevented that from happening. That's also why Donald Brown wasn't a Doak Walker finalist.
The reason that I love March Madness is because of the Cinderella stories that happen every year. In college football there is no such thing. I was so happy to see Boise State and Utah win BCS games. Hopefully they have proven they can beat big schools. Hopefully they will prove to college football that they need a new system. Football is a team game. Motivation, teamwork, hard work and dedication all have a lot more to do with winning a championship than the natural 5 star talent of big time programs. On Paper, based on recruiting, UConn shouldn't be able to compete with Notre Dame or Miami, but we can. On Paper, Utah shouldn't be able to compete with Florida or Oklahoma, but they can. No one ever gave them a chance to prove it though.
So for right now, I don't care about the BCS National Championship game if it's the same 12-1 schools of USC, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio State and Texas in them. We decide which two of those schools makes it based on who they lost to, and when and not by actual games played against each other on the field. To me it's like hitting the sim button on Madden 09 to determine the winner of the Super Bowl. And could you imagine how boring March would be if computers picked the Final Four?
If anything college football is ruining sport. Sport is one of the few things in life that only hard work, dedication, integrity and team work can mean success. Those things are the common denominator of all champions, not just talent. Sports do not contain the same level of politics and inequity seen in the rest of the world. Unless of course the sport you play is college football.
The great thing about sports is that it teaches people that they can do things that they didn't think was possible. Like Utah beating Florida for a national championship. Too bad college football believes that "Impossible is Something"
You can't have a national championship if the teams that went undefeated have no way of playing for it. College football needs a system that rewards hard work, dedication, integrity and team work and not just talent and tradition. The Penn State Volleyball team, The North Carolina Women's Soccer team, the Maryland Field Hockey Team, and the Maryland Men's Soccer team are true fall Champions. Florida isn't for college football. They never beat Utah.
Isn't weird to have to have played all of those games this year in college football, and still not really know who the best team was?
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