No Playoffs for the BCS

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP)—As it turns out, the Big Ten and the Pac-10 weren’t the only conferences standing in the way of a major college football playoff.

The Big East and Big 12 also made it known Wednesday that they were against moving the Bowl Championship Series in that direction, so the BCS rejected a plan to turn the much-criticized system for deciding a national champ into a four-team playoff, starting in the 2010 season.

The league commissioners opposed to the seeded plus-one plan presented by Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive during five hours of meetings all said they were concerned a shift to that model would lead the BCS down a slippery slope.

“Even though we could construct barriers at this time, we felt like … there could be easily an errosion of that; more pressure to add more teams with an ability to get to the national championship game as we went over time,” Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe told reporters. “The system is under a lot of scrutiny that can result in pressure to add games. Our league is not favorable to a playoff system as a whole, and viewed this as the first step in that direction.”

Read the full story [here]. 

Ok, what drives me crazy about college football is that the system is broken. The BCS is a frickin’ joke. There are always 3 teams that “could” be the best, but based on rankings (mainly peoplel driven) at least one, sometimes two, teams are left on the back doorstep without a blanket in the middle of the Holiday season.

Playoffs work. Look at the basketball program playoffs. VERY successful. If they aren’t going to fix the BCS, then why do we even worry about rankings or anything else? Just play the games…

So, looks like we’re looking at a screwed up, unfair, and biased BCS until at least 2014.