For as long as I can remember, there has been a debate about college football and who the true champion is every season. The reason? NO PLAYOFF. Why not? The teams in the big six conferences (Pac 10, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, SEC, Big East), will tell you it's to keep the "tradition of the bowl season alive." Wrong! We all know that's all a lie. If that were really the case, we wouldn't have over 30 bowls. All you have to do to qualify for a bowl is be a .500 team. How is there any tradition in being average. The bowl tradition is for the elite, the ones who truly earned the right to play in the post season. A 6-6 team is not elite, period. The only thing elite, is the elitist point of view the big conferences have on the "non-BCS" conferences. The BCS is a recent addition to football. Who are they to decide which conferences are "BCS" worthy? The Big East and the ACC have been terrible as conferences lately. The Mtn. West has been very strong in that same time. However, teams like TCU (Mtn. West), Utah (formally Mtn. West), and Boise St. (WAC) have all been passed over when the championship participants were announced.
The debate has now reached the ears of people with influence. A letter from U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Christine A. Varney was sent out to NCAA President Mark Emmert, and BCS Executive Director, Bill Hancock. The letter suggests that the BCS and NCAA are in violation of antitrust laws. I am in favor of anything that takes away a voting system done by people with an agenda, and lets the champion be decided on the field, where it belongs.
Here is the letter. This my be the first legitimate step in getting a playoff in college football.
http://www.attorneygeneral.utah.gov/BCSletter.html
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