Each poll accounts for one-third of the final rankings. The BCS takes the top two ranked teams to play in the National Championship game, which was not created until the season.
In alone On average, each BCS bowl averages more than 80, in live attendance. Why is there a need for change? The BCS may have some flaws, but what makes a playoff system any better? The biggest concern of a playoff is system is the health of the players. A minor annoyance to many will be the fact that, despite coming to a decision on this matter, it still will not start this year. Fans have long been tired of the BCS system and now the wait will seem like an eternity.
For now, fans will look at these next couple of years and wonder what it would look like under the new system. When you go to a bigger playoff field, it allows for some at-large teams to get in, even if they didn't necessarily win their own conferences.
In a four-team playoff, you would think that winning your conference would be a must, but that is not true in this situation. Under the guidelines of the new playoff system, being a conference champion may be used as a tiebreaker but is not a must. With this rule in place, the strength of the SEC schedule could allow us to see more potential rematches. If the selection committee is as secretive as the BCS formula, fans will be up in arms, and the system will have no chance at working.
When college basketball is selecting their field with a committee, it is hard for fans to truly argue that a team who couldn't get in to a field that now has expanded past 64, could have won it. With the field only being four teams in college football, the selection of these teams could be extremely difficult, and if the reasoning is not transparent and consistent, than this system will not last long. At the end of the day, moving to a four-team playoff was as much about making more money and retaining as much control as possible as it was about naming a true champion.
If college football and its governing body wanted to make this about naming a true champion, they would expanded the field to a greater size and not stood in the way of what fans have been asking for. BCS rankings no longer exist. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. What happened to the BCS? Who runs the Playoff now?
No one? There is no good answer. ESPN owns all the broadcast rights, including to the rankings release shows. The FBS conferences all have stakes and split the money, depending on participation. The selection committee is mostly made up of athletic director types, one from each power conference, with a little bit of mid-major representation.
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