Musical Chairs

The Bowl Championship Series is a huge mistake. Instead of a system that always matches the best teams, the BCS guarantees ridiculous mismatches. Only a mathematical oddity would ever result in the BCS pairing No. 1 against 2 and 3 against 4. There is a powerful argument for a college playoff. If basketball and baseball can do it, why can't football? Let teams compete and see which finish the game with the most points. The best team would get to the top by winning games against other contenders. College sports is big business, influenced by universities in the six big conferences and the revenues they bring in. They do not want a playoff system that would share that pie with teams of the lesser conferences. As long as big money and big football schools are happy nothing is going to change. One would think the NCAA has enough power, clout and guts to do something about this mess, but I know they don't. The fans are the real losers! We might as well go back to the days of behind the scenes pressure from TV and rooms of cigar smoke to make the deals for which teams play in the bowl games. I enjoyed the games much more when this was the case.