The FCS has an excellent playoff system. Div. 1 should have adopted this long ago. If you’re a good team, you keep on winning, and the two best teams play in the championship.
Sob, sob. But what about the money. Nobody cares who the best team is, but who can make the most money off the bowl games. Screw the playoffs that work!
They should go just ahead and make Div 1 football teams semi-pro, sponsored by the universities and funded by the NFL, and get rid of the ridiculous "student-athlete" facade.
And no one will care, or even remember who won the playoff championship two weeks later.
The BCS was the necessary first step to a true playoff system. People forget that prior to the BCS the major bowls had tremendous power and influence in shaping the match ups...and often prevented a 1 vs 2 game. The BCS got them to cede some of that authority. Now, the conferences have pretty much taken most all control of team selection away from the bowls...I think the real reason they didn’t go to a 6-8 team play off this year is because it will happen concurrent with the top FBS schools spinning off, and dealing with other issues like paying players, etc..
That is true, but the Bowls are very influential……and have done a tremdendous amout of good for college football, something the FCS school were not involved with….so apples and oranges.