[Alberta's Child]

Even a playoff wouldn't work, because the first time you have an NCAA football champion from the bottom 4-5 spots in a 16-team playoff you're going to have the same controversy about a team that just missed the 16-team playoffs that could credibly claim that they belonged there.

What most people seem to overlook is that football -- both college and professional -- is really incompatible with a playoff system no matter how hard these organizations try to pretend otherwise. The biggest problem with football is that the schedule is too short -- which means that the strength of a team's schedule will heavily influence its final record. This is why the SEC does so well in these BCS championship games. Even an SEC team with two losses can probably beat most other conference champions in any given year.

[sean327]

Win your conference and you get a spot, don’t win your conference and pray for an at large bid. Bottom line, win and your in.

[dfwgator]

One answer would be to automatically schedule two games during the season against quality non-conference opponents. Teams would be randomly selected.

Each team plays one of the two games at home and the other away, one game occurs early in the season, the other near the end of the season.

Teams are drawn against teams that finished at a similar level the previous season.

I think this could go a long way to removing the Conference Bias.

[fortheDeclaration]

No, put all teams in conferences (including Notre Dame) and have the winners play it out.

How is it that the lower level college teams can do it but not the higher one?