Now seems an appropriate time for a careful, articulate critique on college football. So I'll take a moment to say this:
The members of the BCS oversight clusterfuck need to all be tarred and feathered.
Obama wanted a playoff system, and surprise! The BCS committee didn't. You neglected to show them what's what, Nobama. Soon it will be my turn to step in.
The entire college football not-so-playoff system is cleverly designed to be the most miserable trainwreck imaginable. The most obvious failure of the Bowl Championship Series is that it has nothing to do with a championship. It replaces legitimate, structured competition with speculation by trying to find a middleground between which team played the best and which team is "actually" the best. However, the whole point of competition is to see who comes out on top when it counts. That's what makes it so exciting. The current system makes the college football experience a disappointing mixture of baseball's sleep-inducing 162-game season and reading US Weekly.
A grade schooler could easily craft a better system. There's only one reason not to change it: money. If there were a real system, regular season matchups and bowl bids couldn't be bought and sold. There's an absurd amount of money in college football, and the racket its handlers have managed to create is nothing short of criminal.
Post large scale tar-and-feathering, there will be no "shares" of championships to quibble over. Your team either won when it counted, or they didn't. (And players will get paid, 'cause God knows they deserve a slice of that pie.)
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