2. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a five-
game showcase of college football.
A 2007 Gallop poll showed that 85% of college
football fans supported a change to a playoff
system of some kind.
The BCS games are operated by community-
based organizations in each of the host cities.
3. The BCS came into picture in the 1998 season.
The first BCS championship game was held in
January of 1999 between Tennessee and Florida
State.
Tennessee won 23-16 to become the first BCS
National Champions.
The first controversy of the BCS was about two
years ago.
4. The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
The Discover Orange Bowl
The Rose Bowl Game
The Allstate Sugar Bowl and
The BCS National Championship Game that is
played at one of the bowl sites.
5. Why won’t the BCS be changed to a playoff
system?
A: “The BCS is working, at least in the
conferences' eyes. Any chance of a college
football playoff is dead” (Mark Schlabach).
6. The BCS is unfairly picked.
For example this years national championship
is LSU vs. Alabama when LSU has already
beaten Alabama. So why not give some one
else a chance?
7. The BCS rewards undefeated BCS teams, so
schools sometimes try to schedule games
against weaker opponents to protect their
records.
A playoff would remove the easy schedule.
It would make the championship solely about
performance.
8. A playoff system would not mean the end of
the BCS rankings.
Which could still be used to determine the top
4, 8, 12, or 16 teams, depending on how many
playoff games are feasible.
Every game during the regular season would
still be as important as under the current
system.
A few losses would make it difficult for a team
to qualify for the playoffs.
9. The BCS rankings are designed to favor
consistency over the course of the entire
season.
It rewards teams that beat the opponents they
are supposed to beat as well as underdogs that
upset higher-ranked teams.
Under a playoff system, a team could lose an
entire season's worth of hard work by having
one bad day.
10. The proposed playoff system alternatives are
actually less fair than the BCS system in place.
In a league of 120 teams, there is no way for
every team to play each other in the course of
the regular season, let alone in a playoff during
the post-season.
11. The BCS conferences have stronger teams in
them.
An undefeated or one-loss record in a BCS
conference should mean more than the same
record in a weaker, non-BCS conference
because the teams are not facing opponents of
the same quality.
The BCS rankings consider strength of
schedule in the computer rating formulas, and
the human voters account for it as well.
12. ”The NCAA still has no interest in sponsoring
a national playoff” (Mark Emmert NCAA
president).
13. The BCS need to switch to a playoff system to
have a true national championship.
