BCS Officials Are Well on Their Way to Screwing up a 4-team Playoff
By Jason McIntyre
But now that USA Today has revealed the potential playoff formats, the brakes have been pumped on some of the excitement:
"As laid out in the BCS summary, a more standard four-team playoff would be seeded and could: • Fold entirely into existing bowls. • Stage the semifinals and title game at neutral sites selected through a bidding process. A bowl or bowls could buy in, hosting the games atop their own annual events. • Place semifinals in bowls, bidding out the championship site. • Or play semifinals at campus sites, again bidding out the title game. Also still to be worked out is the team-selection process. Will the BCS let its mathematical rankings — melding polls and computer ratings — determine who makes a four-team playoff cut? Will it change that formula? Could it go to a selection committee instead?"
What the …?
How difficult is this, you money grubbing fools – top four teams in the “BCS Formula” (which needs to be tweaked, but that’s another story) are seeded 1-4. The No. 1 team plays No. 4 team at a neutral site (Fiesta Bowl – but the next year it could be the Sugar, it matters not) and No. 2 plays No. 3 (Orange Bowl?). Then the winners square off for the title (Sugar Bowl? Rose Bowl?). Schools were willing to destroy rivalries due to conference realignment in a cash grab. Don’t play the “history” bullshit card with the bowl games when everyone knows the bowls are simply a cash grab.