NOPE.
there is just as many "fairness" issues as a BCS like system the issues are just very different...
Playoffs usually do nothing but destroy what was established during the thing that should matter most--- (and I know this is a right field concept for you playoff lemmings) A REGULAR SEASON... It's not fair to make a team that has proved over the course of an entire season they are above certain lesser teams prove it time and time again in some crappy playoff system... You'll still have people griping about fariness on who gets in and you'll have teams that never would have EARNED a right for a title shot in the BCS getting hot and winning a title... that sits really wrong with me... a playoff would destroy the history of the bowl system... a HUGE part of what makes cfb what it is... that sits really wrong with me... and here's the big one... playoff thumpers try and pretend it's all about fairness and the BCS is all about the money... sorry to break it to the lemmings... playoffs are all about the money as well, same issue different angle. The NBA playoffs, expanded to make more dollars... MLB playoffs, expanded to make more dollars... NFL playoffs, expanded to make more dollars... NCAA basketball expanded to ridculous lengths, all to make more dollars... each of these sports has hence RARELY had the two teams that asserted themselves as the best in their sport ALL SEASON LONG play for the championship... how crappy is that?? Why do you people want to see a Super Bowl between two wild card teams?? They don't "win it on the field"... they back into a shity playoff and get hot... the idea of teams like that being crowned champion taints each of those sports to me...
Now, do you honestly thnk cfb and the powers that be will levae a playoff at an 4-8 team playoff in interest of some ridculous concept of fariness??? Nope. they'll expand the amount of teams for the dollars... how will they do this? every time it comes down to two teams for the final spot people like you will cry about fairness and polls and you'll hear this... "Okay, let's expand the field next year"... In the mean time You've destoryed the bowls/ (Sorry, you know you like having the Rose Bowl New Year's Morning and the Sug. New Year's night) You've detroyed the regular season/ and you've opened the door for teams that have earned nothing but an offseason workout regiment to be crowned "champions"...
the examples given have USC and Va Tech in the bracket... any system that lets a team that loses to Standford at home or one that gets beat by 30 on National Television in a 12 game season win their repective title is massively flawed
So you think Ohio State earned it in the regular season by beating up on a bunch of pansies? Had they played LSU's schedule, they probably would have lost 4 games. But because they were able to survive with one loss in a down big 10 conference, guys like you will say that they earned it. The truth is, you can't accurately determine who had the best regular season because nobody plays the same schedule. The only fair thing to do is to throw the conference champs in a playloff...and not just the BCS conferences.
You say that the bowl system has largely defined college football? The bowl system from the start was ALWAYS set up as a merely money making venue and has already expanded to the ridiculous measures that you claim a playoff will. When the bowls first came out, the champion was already named. The bowls merely existed as revenue generating exhibition games. They didn't impact the champuionship in the least. This is the history that you wish to preserve?
First and foremost, the NCAA is the governing body. THEY need to name a champion to make it legit. We need to do away with the mythical part of the championship. You don't find it absurd that the governing body doesn't name the champion? I do.
Secondly, we need to include everyone. The BCS conferences only comprise of 65 out of 119 teams. The other 54 teams stand virtually no chance of winning the title as witnessed by Boise State and Hawaii. Why shouldn't we include everyone? Is this some select club? C'mon..be fair. Your precious BCS conferences can still make all the money they need AND we can have a legit champ.
A 16 team playoff is fair to everyone. 11 conference champs plus 5 at large. That keeps the regular season relevent and includes anyone that possibly deserves a title shot. You may like the current system and all it's inequities and controversy. But if you truly want what is best for the sport and the athletes and not just what is best for your entertainment, you would support a playoff. The current system nearly predetermines their champ with preseason polls, creates a system of haves and haves nots, excludes almost half the teams, ends in controversy almost every year, and doesn't crown a legit champ (named by the governing body). It's just a huge mone making sham is all it is.
It's really such a lopsided debate that anyone debating your side of it looks silly. Just look around to every other major sport. There is a reason why playoff ssettle every other championship.
