
To clearly and fairly prove what team is number one we need to install a playoff system. The BCS’s first major issue is that they focus too much on the BCS conferences, which are the PAC-12, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, SEC, and the ACC. The teams in these conferences are guaranteed bowl games even if they are not the best. The finest example would be the 2010 Big East conference winners, the UCONN Huskies. That year the Big East conference was very weak and because of this, the Huskies won the automatic bid and played in the Fiesta Bowl, even though they were 8-5. They were crushed by a strong Oklahoma team 48-20. These automatic bids into these bowls do not show who is the better team but shows how flawed the BCS system really is. President Obama has even been quoted about the system saying “you cannot truly know who the best is when there are so many one and two loss teams.” The leader of the free world sees a defective system that needs to change just as much as the rest of the fans of college football do. According to espn.com, 64% percent of American believes that there should be a playoff system. The automatic bids are not the only damaged part of the BCS system, but the pre-season ranking system itself. Undefeated teams such as TCU, Utah, and Boise State are not given a chance to establish themselves when they begin the season unranked and undeserving teams with a loss or two are ranked ahead of them even when they haven’t lost a game. Bleacherreport.com found that since 2000, Boise State and TCU have combined for more wins than Ohio State and USC, two teams that are supposedly always a number one team. Boise State has gone undefeated in 2006 and 2008, but because they aren’t a BCS conference team, they are not given the opportunity to play in the championship game.
Also, switching to a playoff system could earn millions more for the NCAA and the schools involved. The BCS has become blinded by the importance of sponsors and money that they lose sight of what is important. What they don’t see, however, is that they could potentially earn millions more in televising the playoffs. According to cornnation.com ESPN is paying $125 million a season to televise the BCS, but CBS and Turner Sports are paying over $750 million a season to televise the NCAA basketball tournament. The NCAA is earning $625 million more with a playoff that everybody loves than with a bowl system that is controversial. Nobody argues that March Madness needs to be changed, but a majority of the people believes that the BCS needs to be changed to a playoff system that would increase their revenue by millions. Also, because of the increase in bowl games every year, schools are actually losing money by sending their teams to these bowl games that nobody watches and they only sell a couple thousand tickets. The teams involved in these poor excuse for a bowl game will lose money but can’t turn down the offer of a bowl game. According to a reporter Husker Mike of cornnation.com, Ohio State lost money by sending its team to the Rose Bowl in 2009 due to the expenses of hotels and other necessities for weeks on end preparing for the bowl itself.

