by Bradley Dedon

Created on: April 12, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

Ab-so-lutely NOT!

For starters, without the fans, college football would seize to exist. A large part of a university's revenue is generated through a school's football program. At the FBS level, formerly known as Division I, this holds true to each BCS-affiliated school. Another thing is, it's never going to happen. There are too many fans out there that schedule vacation time from work around the schedule of their favorite school. Boycotting college football, for any period of time, would have a potentially harmful effect on the sport.

I am no fan of Mack Brown, nor Texas for that matter, but his suggestion a couple of years ago was perhaps the best solution I have heard: The schools involved in Division I (FBS) college football should break away from the NCAA. There is no binding clause between the schools and the NCAA that says without affiliation to the NCAA, there can be no competition. If there were, it would only be through contract, and at that point, once the contract expires, the coaches, athletic directors, and school administrators would have to build a proposal to reconcile over conflicting interests. Upon no agreement, the schools would break away from the NCAA and form their own organization. The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) is a rather powerful, very tightly-knit group of coaches from around the world. Although it is not a union, enough support can be generated through their efforts to make this happen.

The BCS ranking system itself is not all that bad to begin with. It is fairly accurate, although, each season leaves one or two teams on the outside looking in. Surely each team that is right there near the top by the season's end has a case, and more often than not, their reasoning for why they should be in the championship game, as opposed to another school, is valid. We live in an imperfect world. We cannot always expect perfect results. Every system has its flaws. I see the BCS ranking system as a good thing for the game.

The BCS system has been gracious enough to place my beloved LSU Tigers in the National Championship Game twice in the past five years. Both times, the Tigers have come out victorious. I've taken off the purple-and-gold-colored glasses for a minute... I have a solution.

Utilizing the BCS ranking system as a means to hand out seedings for the playoffs is a great idea, in my opinion. Let's see what everyone thinks about this proposal:

-Force each team to play a mandatory 10-game schedule.
-All conferences will have

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