Like many college football fans I am very displeased by the fact that division 1-A/Bowl Championship Division does not have a playoff. Though it irritates me I understand that the NCAA is completely driven by money with this issue.
It is very obvious to anyone you speak with that we need a playoff system in division 1 but we keep getting a modified version of the BCS. If they don’t want to have a playoff just come out and say the real reason, don’t try to push some second rate system on us and tell us how it is better.
I don’t really think that a playoff system using the current bowl structure would work. The reason, who is going to want to spend the money to go to a game where if their team wins they will play another more important game the next week? The only way to fix this is to seed the teams and have the game in the home stadium of the highest seeded team. So 1 vs 8 would be a home game for the 1 seed.
I see this as the only viable option and obviously it isn’t going to happen because I don’t see the Orange Bowl being played in Lincoln in early January. It is obvious there would be too much money being lost by the NCAA to use a system like this. On the other hand any other system I can think of would either have a lack of attendance or a total waste like the BCS. So basically, get used to the BCS. As much as it sucks we will never see an true playoff system and that just flat out sucks.