So You Don't Like The BCS?

Well so do many other people including myself. So what I will do in this blog post is do exactly what oh so many have done before me and that is come up with my own solution. I know I know; playoffs....blah blah blah....plus one....blah blah blah, forget it! It is all garbage! Here at Seminole Source I have come up with the best solution to our current problem. What's that? You want to know what it is? Well......ok. 

Here goes, first think about what the BCS is meant to do. It was created so that the number 1 team and the number 2 team would play each other in a bowl game to determine who is the best team in college football. All the other bowl games are essentially game for next year and game to help teams with recruiting. So having said that is their anything wrong with the BCS? The short answer is no, but the their is something wrong with how we choose a number 1 and number 2. First you have the Harris poll then you have the AP poll and then you have the coaches poll and then some weird computer poll (this frightens me because this implies that computers have are advanced enough to have opinions). With all these polls and opinions how in the world will anyone be satisfied with the end result? Well truth be told we are not satisfied. So in other words we don't need to fix the BCS but rather we need to fix the way we rank teams.

Alright enough of the set up. Here is the best solution one could possibly come up with for fixing college football; Let's have a point system! For example every team starts off with 50 or so points at the beginning of every season. Each team then has to wager half of their total points for every game they play. If a team loses they lose those points, rounding down. While the team who won wins those points rounding up. We then rank the teams according to total number of points at the end of each week. 

How will this effect scheduling weaker opponents in the first few games? 

It should force teams to cut back on that. While the first game will most likely be a cupcake game, since all teams have the same number of points, as the season progresses teams will want to schedule harder competition. Due to the fact that the tougher teams will have more points toward the end of the season.

How do you handle tie breakers?

First if the two teams have played each other during the year the team who won gets the high ranking. However the odds of that happening are rare so the team with the best overall record gets ranked high and then whoever has the best conference ranking.

What about bowl games?

Bowl games and the Championship game does not change just the way each team is ranked.