by Jt Clark

Created on: September 12, 2009

If you know anything about college football, then you'd know about the debate over a BCS championship format, or a playoff championship format. All we can do right now is talk about change, because the NCAA says they will not change anything until I think it was 2011. Anyway, the BCS format is the traditional format. You have to win regular season games. If you win, you get points in the BCS standings. The top scored teams at the end of the year play in the Championship game. All the other good teams play in bowl games. In a playoff format, the discussion gives anywhere from 4 to 32 teams, that are put into a tournament or playoff. In this playoff, a team wins, and goes on to the next round, this continues till there is one team left. The champion. Similar to NFL playoffs.

The BCS format has a few good sides. One, It gives more teams a chance to play in a prestigious game. With the playoff format, your looking at a 32 team max, with that being improbable. With the bowl games, over half of the FBS gets to compete. It's also traditional. Allot of people don't want it to go away, because it's been here for so long. Teams play as hard as they can every year to get in a bowl game, not necessarily the championship game.

Some drawbacks, are the following. To make the championship game, you almost have to go unbeaten. If you lose two games you have just about no chance of making the Championship game. Another, you could have 4, 5, maybe 6 teams go unbeaten against good competition, but if they're not rated the top 2, by the BCS, they can kiss that championship goodbye.

Now, positives about the playoff format. One, More teams get a chance for the title, it's a tournament, so you can screw up in the regular season, and have a chance to make up for it. It would better motivate teams if they knew they actually had a chance to win the championship.

Some negatives towards this format, are the facts that less teams would get less of a chance in a big game (Bowl game), and it lessens the importance of the regular season, not by much, but it does.

So, the question is, BCS or Playoff? What will the NCAA do? I guess we will have to just wait and find out.

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