Our new President sat down with Chris ‘Boomer’ Berman on Monday night football and proved that he can make even an uncomfortable interview with some sports guy into a easy chat. If you don’t recall or didn’t watch here you go….
Did you catch that?
Berman laid out the world of sports for our new leader to fix one thing and he picked the BCS. By the way, McCain kept with the standard “drugs in sports” item. But with Barack’s win he’s started putting together his cabinet. I think it’s high time that we have a Secretary of Making it Right in Sports. And since I’ve been unemployed for a few months, I need the job so I would like to formally request consideration for said position.But I’m not looking for a hand out, I’ve got a plan to fix the President-elect’s #1 concern in sports: It’s time for playoffs in college football.Division 1-A or FBS, whatever they’ve decided to call it this year is the only place in sports that determines their champion though an arbitrary system. It rarely makes since and the few times we do have a USC/Texas Rose Bowl game where the BCS gets it right are entirely to few and far between. You also don’t provide every team in the league with the same chance to win. A TCU or Boise State can go undefeated and work their way into a BCS Bowl, but never, never the national championship. Which is fair. After all, TCU plays in Conference USA, it’s considerably easier for them to go undefeated than for an SEC team to get through there conference schedule with one or two losses, right?On top of all that, there’s the real possibility that a team could lose their Conference championship and still be invited to and win the national championship. In fact in 2003 Oklahoma lost to Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship game but was still able to garner a bid to play LSU in the National Championship game. If Nick Saban and the Tigers had not taken down the Sooners, 2004 could have brought us a game where the reigning national champion took on their own conference champ. Had that happened there’s a good chance the space-time continuum would have unraveled leaving all existence in question.
We have to fix this before it happens again. So here’s the plan.
We have 121 FBS schools. Now I could make a great argument for whittling (ed. note: he’s from Texas, that’s just how he talks) down that number (Baylor, SMU, Florida Atlantic I’m looking at you), but we’ll stick with that number for now. Eight super conference’s gives each conference 15 teams and one has 16 teams. To even it out we can drag 7 teams up the FBS or send one down, doesn’t matter to me. Each of our 8 conferences is divided into 2 divisions. That gives us divisions of 7 or 8 teams.
During you schedule you must play all your division opponents plus the team in you conference’s other division that finished in the same slot you did. If you came in second in your division last year you play the second place team in the other division this year. To fill in the rest of your schedule you will play random computer selected opponents that finished within 2 slots of you on either side. If you finished third in you division you may end up playing another division’s 1-5 teams. No more cupcake games for the first month of the season.
Division winners take on each other in the Conference Championship games played at neutral Bowl sites. There’s eight bowl games. The eight conference champs go into a tournament seeded by our old friend the computer. First round is 4 more neutral Bowl sites and second round 2 BCS bowls and the winners go on to the national championship game while the losers could fill the final BCS Bowl game, if deemed necessary. I don’t need it But somebody probably would complain. That gives us 16 bowl games. If the GalleryFurniture.com Bowl invites teams not in these 16 games that’s cool with me…I’ll probably watch ‘em.
Now any and all teams have a chance to win it all at the start of every year. Plus, you can’t win it all without winning your division and conference. The perfect plan.
I await your call Mr President-elect. And I look forward to solving other sports problem in the future.