That's a valid point, except...wait, it's not valid at all because it isn't true.
CFB determines its champion with a one-game playoff. It's participants are determined in part (but not totally) by vote. Don't confuse the two.
One game does not make a playoff. A
playoff is "a series of contests played after the end of the regular season to determine a championship".
Besides that, college football does not determine a true champion through play on the field, but through voting. The winner of the BCS "Championship" Game gets the first place
votes in the USA Today Coaches' Poll (though whether the coaches are bound to vote for the winner of that game is up for debate).
The AP also crowns a "national champion" which has nothing to do with what happens on the field and everything to do with the opinions of sportswriters.
The Stupid Bowl, and the NFL in general, is a big freaking joke. Individual games during the regular season are often rendered nearly meaningless. When was the last time a college team benched their starters for an entire game because their postseason position was already secure? When was the last time a .500 team made the playoffs in D-IA?
LSU will be in the BCS "Championship" Game regardless of what happens this weekend. They could bench their whole team, or not even show up to Atlanta, and still finish #1 in the BCS rankings.
The clowns that run the BCS want us to believe that "every game counts" in I-A football when, in fact, almost none of them do. This year, in fact, only one game "counts": the so-called "Game of the Century" earlier this month. When we have a rematch in two months, Alabama could actually win and still not be named "national champion" because they would have lost at home to a team they could only beat at a neutral site.
Say you expand the playoff field to eight teams - you could end up with a pair of two-loss teams playing for the championship. Do you really believe Oregon has had a better year than LSU? I don't, either - and I wouldn't support a system where such a team could conceivably win the title.
Oh no! Two loss teams playing for the "championship"?!?
UNTHINKABLE!!!
What's more, you argue as if every team plays the same schedule against the same competition. One of the best reasons to have a playoff is precisely because of that fact. Does Oregon deserve the championship over LSU? No, LSU already beat them. So that counts out Alabama, too, right? Oklahoma St lost to an unranked IOWA STATE team. They surely don't belong on the same field as the mighty, unbeaten Tigers. Boise lost at home to TCU. Houston didn't play anyone. OU lost twice. Georgia lost to that same Boise team (in a defacto home game) that we've already established doesn't belong on the same field with LSU, so we might as well cancel the SEC Championship Game (which, we've already established, is meaningless this year anyway). Who else? Stanford, who got blown out by the Oregon team that already got hammered by LSU?
Might as well just cancel the rest of the season, huh?
, the 8 team playoff with less % of the bcs score given the the polls *should* be better.
