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Yes, it is time for college football fans to boycott the BCS, the bowl games and regular college games until a bowl playoff system is put in place to truly crown the Number 1 college football team in America.

Year after year college football teams and their fans across America wonder why they are not Number #1 contenders instead of the two teams vying for the national championship game.

With the BCS leaders continuing to ignore the calls to change how the Number1 college football team is crowned, the BCS leaders are leaving college football fans no choice but to boycott the games until our voice is heard.

With only hundredths of a percentage point separating the top 16 teams in the official BCS standings; college teams and fans have a right to scratch their heads and say wait just a minute.

I for one find the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) name not standing for what
the name implies ludicrous and ill conceived for failing to engage college
football team fans in the game like a true playoff system would bring to the
game of college football.

There is no actual bowl championship series as the name of the organization
leads a person to believe.

BCS leaders have relegated well known bowl games into a second tier prominence
with games that mean nothing in the overall picture of who is the best in
college football.

Why even watch the consolation games played in the now less prominent
Orange, Rose, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls? The end results of the once prominent bowl
games for the winner lead to nowhere except to remind the teams playing of the
fact they could have beat the teams playing in the championship bowl game.

The BCS ranking system while working somewhat is not optimizing the fan
excitement that a playoff system would bring to the game.

Extremely important is the millions of dollars being left on the table by
not changing the Bowl Championship Series into a true bowl championship series.

Why are the leaders of the Bowl Championship Series reluctant to admit they
are wrong and move forward with new plans to engage and entertain college
football fans with a true championship series to crown the Number 1 team?

Some say money and a "We're not wrong mentality" are the main reasons the
BCS leaders continue this charade of how the 2 teams are picked to play in the
National Champion Game.

Regardless of why the BCS leaders continue on this path of not creating an
exciting bowl playoff series, the one fact that is known is the decision of
the BCS leaders to ignore the wishes of college football fans.

New bowl games can be created or the teams who are the winners of the various
college conferences should have a playoff series to decide who is going to the
Bowl Championship Series game.

An example of bowl series would consist of eight bowl games in the first weekend
round for the top 16 teams then 4 bowl games in the second weekend round followed
by 2 bowl games the third weekend round and finally the true championship bowl game
the following weekend will crown the true Number 1 team amd bring much needed
excitement back into the game along with elevating the importance of the bowl games
once again.

Boycotting the college football games seems to be the only way to get the
BCS leaders to come down from their thrones and listen to the college football
fans whose love for the game enables the BCS leaders the luxury of enjoying a
comfortable life financially.

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