BCS Plus One, see you in 2010

USA today reports on the upcoming college football conference commissioner meeting in Miami this week. It highlights the once-fractured landscape of the game evolving into a BCS coalition that is marketing the game on a national level.

Has the playoff noise settled down yet, or will it crescendo as summer turns to fall ad Buckeye fans await a third straight loss in the championship game (Jim Kelly and Daryl Talley are very proud of Ohio State’s accomplishments)?

“Overall,” says Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner and BCS coordinator John Swofford, “I continue to sense a current comfort level, if you will, with the current status of things with the BCS. I think it’s been a pretty stable few years if you go back to 2004.”

It is possible that we have reached the ultimate compromise between playoffs and bowls. Doesn’t mean I have to like it. Here again is my short rant of why a 8/16-team playoff is bad for the fans and the game, with common complaints addressed.

“Let us determine the champ on the field” cry the unenlightened.

Wouldn’t that require every team to play one another? That is one game every three days! 120 teams in Division One FBS football, and only one-fourth of all games played are out-of-conference; hence, lots of math needed to project who is better in a hypothetical matchup. We have that in the BCS and to a far lesser extent the polls.

BCS isn’t fair!

First off, Fair is what the county organizes after the harvest…

You want fair? How about the MAC, Sun Belt and Conference-USA champions having a legitimate claim to one of the Top 16 seeds? Conference champ HAS to get a bid if “fair”, but many will gnash teeth that the Big 12 #3 is better than Central Michigan, Troy and UCF. You thought the playoff would eliminate all the polls and the math? Chippewa PLEASE….

But we (USC, Georgia) finished the season strong, we may be the best team right now!

Sorry, games in September count. Things change. Morgan Fairchild and Linda Carter used to be the hottest women in America. I maintain that I would enjoy the view during a meal with either one in their 50+ era, but those Victoria’s Secret chicks have them beat now.

Georgia, your annual under with South Carolina did you in. Deal with it and enjoy your sacrificial lamb with a side of jelly.

USC, you lost to freakin’ Stanford. Appalachian State fans won’t like this, but that was the biggest upset in college football history. Sorry - no ass, no backstage pass.

The playoffs would be so much more exciting!

Really? Playoffs give you the .500 St. Louis Cardinals as 2006 champs because they got hot, not because they had the best season.

It was pretty exciting to watch West Virginia wet the bed to miss out on the title game. It was amazing watching Hawaii come back from 21-0 to beat Washington to secure an undefeated regular season and earn the right to get bludgeoned. LSU got a gift, a deserving gift, to get back in the National Championship. That was all pretty exciting.