zero stars-sucks ass - a joke that they shuff this down our throats every year- puke

The computer they use to determine the BCS is all wrong.

I have heard enough. The playoff system would have just as much controversy as the BCS. If the season was done today, we would have 3 undefeted teams at the top of the polls. We will say you go with a 8 or 16 team playoff. Who would get the bracket with the two undefeted teams in it. That wouldn't be fair. What I mean is say that Alabama is on the right side of the bracket and Penn State and Texas Tech are on the other side. That would seemingly give Alabama the best chance to get to the game. In the BCS, everybody has the same chance as everybody else. Obviously if you are in an elite conference and you go undefeted, you are in. If there are three teams like there are this year (so far) then their whole season is put into the equation. If you want to get the best number, schedule tough non conference games. Make a case for yourself. PLEASE, someone give me a reason that the equation is not the most fair thing out there.

The BCS sucks. A huge pile of crap dumped on the college football fan. 99% of fans want a playoff. There is a playoff in every other major collegiate sport at every level . It sucks. I cant stand it. Im not going to watch. I suggest a boycott. This is about the only thing that will make the format change.

They can still have there crappy bowl games that mean nothing if a playoff is put in place. Nobody cares about the games now, and nobody will then.

Can you imagine how awesome a playoff would be? It needs to happen.

I would like to put up the argument that Rutgers University belongs right behing Ohio State and Michigan. If you look at all the other teams, especially Louisville and those who lost saturday they all have 1 or 2 losses and need I say Rutgers University did beat Louisville a # 3 ranked team by the BCS, so by process of elimination that puts Rutgers in the #3 spot. If rutgers is lower than #3 then everyone at the BCS are hypocrites and the whole system needs to be revamped. The only 3 teams undefeated are Ohio State Michigan and Rutgers University, 1,2,3 consecutively. Also I believe if rutgers goes undefeated they play the winner of Ohio State & Michigan in the Championship game. So, to the BCS don't be hypocrites! Rutgers belongs amoung the better teams in the BCS!!!

WHO WOULD SUPPORT THIS LAME EXCUSE FOR BOWL GAMES...THE BCS GIVES NO CHANCE TO HARDLY ANY SCHOOLS IN THE NATION THAT ARENT IN THE POWER CONFERENCES TAKE THE MOUTAIN WEST FOR EXAMPLE...THEY HAVE SOME OF THE BEST TALENT IN THE COUNTRY YET WE NEVER GET RECOGNIZED...THE BCS IS GAY AND ALWAYS WILL BE

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Hate the way the BCS is done. Only four teams try to go to championships in four different bowls? Horrible. Not even NEAR as exciting as NCAA basketball tourney.

Ever heard of seeded teams competing in a playoff format? BCS=BS.

Playoffs are better

Most of the games are entertaining... imagine the possibility of a playoff system

BCS must simplify there format two have the two best teams in country play for BCS National Title. 1. Rose,Fiesta,Sugar,Orange come to an agreement 2. Have A Top 4 invitation system while keeping all bowls in place. 3. Who will be Top 4 invites??? By keeping same BCS formula but do some more tweaken...example: Strenght of schedule plays a HUGE role Each school will to beef up their non conference schedule... Conference play will HELP each other. Rooting for your enemy (Texas or Oklahoma)conference team to win will unite each conference.. The ultimate goal is to recieve a TOP 4 invitation to BCS Imagine this as an example: Fiesta: USC vs Texas or Cal (1 vs 4) Sugar: Oklahoma vs Aurburn Played on December 31st (Saturday) Sunday Jan 1 ROSE could hold a Marquee game Pac10 vs Big 10 or Utha vs Pac10 or basically any school desired to hold a marquee game Jan 6th BCS National Title Game between Fiesta winner and Sugar winner to be played at Orange Bowl... Have BCS Bowls rotate each year and we will have a true Champion every year. All lower bowls stay, kids are back to school in time, and only (1) extra game is played...the two teams playing for the title....What do we say sports fans????

The Super Alliance BCS system does not work at all. It relies on hope, hope that there are 2 clear-cut teams that make up numbers 1 and 2, hope that it is an appealing matchup for TV viewers, and hope that the computers don't spit out something totally incongruous with reality. It would work fine in 1992, when both Alabama and Miami were legit, undefeated championship candidates. With the inclusion of the Big 10 and Pac-10, it would save the 1994 season by not forcing Penn State into a weak matchup with Oregon in the Rose Bowl but letting it play Nebraska for the championship. But what about 3 undefeated teams? What about one undefeated and a host of 1-loss squads, like in 1996? Who's to say what would have happened if FSU had faced the legit, undefeated number 2, Arizona State? And why did Florida (one loss) have any more stake at the title than FSU (also one loss) or ASU (again, one loss)? Are bowl-game losses more earth-shattering than regular season ones? What about 2000, when Florida St. got into the Orange Bowl despite having lost to Miami, a team with only 1 loss as well? What about 2001, when both Colorado and Oregon had more right to claim a spot in the Rose than Nebraska, a team that couldn't even win its own conference? The same story played out last year; Oklahoma couldn't even win the Big XII, yet ended up in the title game (where they proved undeserving vs. LSU). Look at this season: 5 undefeated teams at season's end, plus a very qualified Cal team with one loss. Who's going to get the royal screw job from the BCS this year? Unless either Auburn, Oklahoma, or USC (or some combination of them) loses, one of them will get left out of the ballyhooed National Championship Orange Bowl, but will likely split the title with the Orange winner if they win their bowl. How many times will we fans have to endure two champions, a concept that makes a mockery of the game? How much longer will College Football, arguably the most popular spectator sport in the country, decide its champion like boxing and figure skating, two freak shows on the sporting landscape? Although the BCS is a step up from the old Alliance, it is by no means a solution; there are still too many questions. One is the notion of using computers to determine the top 2 teams. Now, a 16-team playoff sounds nice, but it would extend the season far too long, in addition to including teams that have no business playing for the national title. A better solution would be to have a Final Four type tournament, and each semifinal and the title game would be one of the BCS bowls; the one not in use would have no title implications and keep it's pre-BCS conference affiliation...the bowls would rotate each year, i.e. the one who was the championship game one year would sit out the next, etc. Use a team's average rank in the AP and the Coaches' polls to determine the top 4, and eliminate the constantly changing BCS formula. If there is a controversy regarding who gets in to the top 4, then use another lesser bowl like the Cotton, Citrus, etc. as a play-in game. Then proceed with the Final Four as described above. Then, the regular season would retain its importance (unlike virtually every other sport), but there also would no longer be doubt of the #1 team after each season.

At 4/4/2003, 2 stars: Since there is no undisputed champion for this year, there is no way that I will be interested for next year despite that they added a new bowl so to have the minor 1-A confernces play for a championship. If you a want tourney in football, want better action, and undisputed champs, watch or listen to 1-AA football. Update: I did watch many games, and I could not believe that two teams worthy of bowl bids shockingly don't get what they want. This time for good, until a playoff system is implemented, I will not care who wins the nat'l championship and I won't watch anyore of these games. The B.C.S.-C= B.S. as in Bowl S@$%.

Georgia #8 and Tennessee #15? USC #1 and California #4, and niether of them having played anyone of any significance? USC struggled with Virginia Tech. Oklahoma #2 and in the same boat as USC and Cal, except for their win over Texas? Auburn #3 although they've crushed several significant opponents? Miami lost to two sub-top 20's and is still ranked high. Amazing! And what is a team like Louisville doing in there? Do the pollsters not take into account hypothetical matchups? Do they really think USC could beat Auburn? Do they really think Louisville could beat Tennessee? Do they really think Boise State could beat Florida State? Wake up pollsters. Leave the conference politics and political correctness out of it and come up with a true pecking order. You can't right the supposed wrongs of last season by overranking USC this season.

It's ok for now but think about it..every sport has a playoff which decides the winner...there are traditional bowls..for a long time the only bowl that the big ten and pac ten could go to was the rose bowl..thats why it was so big..but theres really no way to say one team is better then another if they don't play each other..the biggest screw up was in '97. Michigan was the best team in the country the whole year..then nebraska came along undefeated too..who is champion..we need to have 3 playoff games..big ten vs pac ten..winner of that plays winner of big 12 vs big east..sec vs acc plays some low conf winner then those winners play each other then theres a chmpionship game..it would create more money..and wouldn't have any controversy..why aren't we having a playoff...this year is even more screwed..3 unbeatens that all look deserving of a national championship..the bcs has glitches..

BCS = Broken Cheat System. Makes the Electoral College look equitable and sophisticated. I will guarantee you that Utah and Boise State can go undefeated and will still get jobbed, while Notre Dame can finish 6-5 and get into a major BCS game. There will never be a playoff in Division IA football as long as 64 teams can cash in on a Bowl Game (even if all are largely unwatched and of no interest other than the Championship game). I knew the BCS was a sham when they interviewed one of the Computer Rating Geeks and could not give an intelligent answer who he personally thought was the best team at the time.

there must be a better way.

what homoerotic neo nazi invented this crock of s---? the collegiate football champion should be determined by beating the other teams, fair and square. Not by a political voting system.

1-AA football better than the big boys?? That is pretty funny. I don't care what the championship format is. College football is and will always be the premier college sport, and thus its championship will be the most watched/talked about - and for good reason. I also like how college football uses the regular season to decide who plays for all the marbles. In other sports(particualarly NBA and MLB), the regular season is irrelevant due to there being somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,456 games. In college football, you lose any game and you're screwed unless someone else in the top 5 ahead of you loses later in the season. So if you're used to waiting until the end of the season to watch, like in other sports, tune in to college football in September and October... the games ALL matter.

Better than before, but an 8 team playoff would be the ultimate.

College football is my favorite overall sport; but the BCS SUCKS!!

It's the best regular season in all of sports. People want March madness, we have five months of madness. If you want to play for the title, don't lose, that's the playoff, the 11-12 games on your schedule, this isn't hoops where you can lose as many as you want as long as you either get a bid, or win the conf. tourneys. Every college game matters, why let two loss teams even sniff a chance. Plus how would one game after the bowls work in a season with two undefeated teams. Just exactly who would Ohio State have to defeat after beating Miami in the '03 Fiesta Bowl to be declared the champion. Or after Nebraska whipped Florida in '96 Fiesta, who should they beat next, the Dallas Cowboys? It's the only sport which places a premium on the regular season and that's the best.

it's only one way iin every sport but college football- everybody plays until it's one teams that wins. it's all that way, baseball, basketball, etc. they play until one is the winner start wiith the top 16 teams

Oklahoma doesn't even deserve to be in the big game!!! How can the number 1 team not be in?

Would be five stars if they would impliment a playoff system.

It brings back a lot of good holiday memories for me.

What would make this a much better thing is if they would make ONE game decide the National champion. Sorting it all out after the bowls have been played is pointless. At the end of the Super Bowl for instance, everybody knows who is champ.

Great, championship games featuring players I don't know at coleges I don't go to. Fun!

Until they can get their ratings system in order, a rating of 1 in my book.

College sports are awesome

I love college football, I would much rather watch it than a pro game any day. Until you have a true playoff where conference winners play each other for the chance to play in the championship, it should not even be on this list. Nothing else listed here has the potential of being skewed by “voter” opinion like College Football does. Better than the previous system but still not a true championship.

Big Bucks for schools. Sports has become the way for schools to get money. Sports comes before academics, it was even that way when I was in high school.

Next to a playoff, this is the best thing for college football and guarantees a #1 vs. #2 match-up. It is much better than the system (or lack thereof) that used to be in place.

It is about tume to implement a playoff system. Look how popular March Madness is - I think the NCAA could match this in the month of December with a field of 8 or 16 playoff system. Why do the kids need a month off before playing in a bowl game anyway?

When is college football going to get their act together and create a March Madness type environment?

It was nice to see the system work so well this year. I hate Florida State, but there isn't any doubt that they were the best team this season.

One word--playoff.