BYU is the main reason for the very existence of the BCS. When BYU won the national championship in 1985, the big conferences were desperate to find a way to prevent teams like BYU from even being considered for a national championship. They couldn’t afford to lose that kind of money again so, they eventually came up with the BCS. Now, only the big football schools will be considered for the national championship even when there are non-BCS teams with perfect records and BCS teams that have two, three or even four losses.
BCS teams/schools haven’t the guts to go to a playoff system because they know full well that anyone can beat anyone else on any given day so, they need the BCS to protect their fragile egos and pocket books. Its their ball and if they can’t play the way they want to play then they’re going to just take it and go home.
Exactly. I went to a I-AA, now “Football Championship Subdivision” school (James Madison, 2004 FCS national champs). The top 16 FCS teams have a playoff, and nobody seems to whine about the “strain on the student-athletes” the way the talking heads and the athletic departments at the big boys do. What, the guys at Ohio State are gonna miss a couple more basket-weaving classes so they’ll have to hire more actual students to take their tests for them? Ditto Divisions II and III, and it can be said that players at the lower levels need those degrees a LOT more than the BCS players might.
The big schools need to shut up, quit whining, and settle it ON THE FIELD.
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