BCS National Championship?

It’s Just a Bowl Game

by Scott Weiss 

As the 2010-2011 College Football season approaches, college football fans will once again be subjected to the sham that is the BCS system.  Computers deciding who will play in the supposed championship game; could anything be more contrary to the concepts of competition and fairness than this?  The NCAA wants fans to buy into the contrived game that they create as a championship game.  As a fan, I have never considered this to be a championship game.  Let’s face it, the game is just another bowl game.  There were 34 bowl games played in the 2009-2010 college football season, and to arbitrarily call the winner of one of these games as the national champion is a total joke. 

Somehow, the NCAA has found a way to come up with a playoff system to determine their basketball, baseball and hockey champions.  They have even found a way to come up with a 16 team playoff format to determine the champions of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA).  Contrary to what Gordon Gekko said, greed is not good.  Should college football fans continue to endure the bogus way that the national champion is determined because the NCAA needs to stuff their pockets with bowl game bucks?  As a sports fan, I think that the answer is a resounding, no! 

Scott Weiss is the Local Chapter Chair for SFC-New York/New Jersey.  He has been involved in the sports fans advocacy movement since 2000.  He is a life long fan of the Mets, Jets, Knicks, and Rangers.

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