I have tried to better understand the BCS this year. Primarily, why they think a play-off won't work. They do have some semi-valid arguments but they all contain some holes. Though I think the BCS will be a note in the history books come 2020 we still have to live with it for now. All I'm asking is for some sensible changes... just like everyone else.
When the BCS started it had the intention to pit #1 and #2 - nothing more. But given that the team talent gap has obviously narrowed in the last 10 years it's just time to expand the BCS to at least four teams.
This past season was the top year for the non AQ conferences as far as money...but still nowhere close to what the AQ conferences earned. The BCS will tell us it's getting better but the gap is still huge. Has the percentage of the gap changed in the last 10 years? Why are the AQ conferences guaranteed at least $18 million? It's just the whole rich getting richer thing that bugs so much.
I worry that the NCAAF is turning into the NFL...rich guys, sitting in expensive booths, smoking cigars, under-the-table betting and bartering, wondering why us little folk don't see or suspect it. Hey, we do. PLEASE don't turn the best sport into a business that'll lose the tradition, the respect, the passion and spark and fans that we all so anticipate Feb through Aug and enjoy Sep through Jan.
See a history of BCS controversies here.
But BCS rantings aside, all in all, it could be worse. I just finished reading the autobiography of Vince Dooley (UGA coach / AD for 40 years), in which he stated: "The bowl process was very different back then [late 60's]. Not a lot of people know this but Bear Bryant of Alabama basically controlled the whole system and pretty much dictated who would go to what bowl." At least we have moved from a monarchy to an oligarchy.