Although the unpopular BCS system has been outlawed, the new playoff system is not perfect either.\u00a0 In college sports, due to talent spread throughout the conferences, or lack thereof, just going by records is not a way in which to judge teams and their talent.\u00a0 Only in professional sports, in which the teams compete in a level playing field,\u00a0records alone determine which teams make the playoffs\u00a0 and which teams don’t.\u00a0 Therefore, you have a very consistent, and logically correct system.\u00a0 Sure\u00a0they have minor changes, like two more wild card teams being added this past season in Major League Baseball, but overall the format and concepts are the same.\u00a0 But, college sports are much different than this.\u00a0 Teams are not even, don\u2019t play even schedules, and therefore cannot be judged just on winning percentage, as\u00a0they can in professional sports.<\/p>\n
Keeping all of this in mind, fans cannot act like the new college playoff system is the \u201csavior\u201d of college football.\u00a0 The change is not even as large as people seem to think, with only two more teams being added to the National Championship picture, and all other bowl games remaining the same.\u00a0 Take this season for example.\u00a0\u00a0 If this system was in place, the final four teams in the National Championship \u201ctournament\u201d would have been Notre Dame, Alabama, Florida, and Oregon.\u00a0 Not included in these rankings are Georgia, Kansas State, Stanford and\u00a0 few other teams who arguably had just as impressive of seasons as Florida and Oregon.\u00a0 Some could argue that Georgia was negatively affected because they were good enough to play for the SEC title, while Florida was rewarded for not<\/em> playing in a championship game.\u00a0 Stanford would be in the same boat; except for they won<\/em> their conference championship game.\u00a0 Kansas State lost only one game, as did all three teams in the tournament besides Notre Dame.\u00a0\u00a0 Unrealistic SEC fans may say Texas A&M and Georgia should have made it in in front of Oregon and even Notre Dame, basing their argument purely on strength of schedule.\u00a0 As valid or invalid as these arguments may be, how are these any different than the arguments that take place when only two teams were in the title game?\u00a0 If anything there will be more argument and controversy with this system, because they are dealing with more one or even two loss teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n Controversy is good for a sport in that it draws attention, but if the goal is to prove who the true National Champion is this new system will fail as well, just as the \u201cdreaded\u201d BCS.\u00a0 It is just like when the NCAA tournament was expanded from 64 teams to 68. The arguments and accusations of \u201cwhose in and whose out\u201d continued as more and more teams were considered \u201con the bubble.\u201d\u00a0 The advantage of having 64 or 68 teams is all the teams that are considered to be in the hunt for a title will for sure make the tournament, leaving no elite teams out of the race.\u00a0 Obviously a 64 team playoff would be impossible in college football, but I don\u2019t think a four team playoff system gets the job done either.<\/p>\n As stated, until college sports teams can be judged on solely record alone (which obviously is impossible) there will never be a perfect way to come up with a true National Champion in college football.\u00a0 The argument of \u201cwell what would\u2019ve happened if so and so would\u2019ve reached the final four team\u201d will continue no matter what college football does.\u00a0 Is this system better? Absolutely.\u00a0 But is it the system that everyone is looking for in determining who the best team really is in college football year in and year out?\u00a0 Absolutely not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although the unpopular BCS system has been outlawed, the new playoff system is not perfect either.\u00a0 In college sports, due to talent spread throughout the conferences, or lack thereof, just going by records is not a way in which to judge teams and their talent.\u00a0 Only in professional sports, in which the teams compete in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[210,188,209,207,208,78,211,206,12,67,44],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-3-sports","tag-bcs","tag-college","tag-college-football","tag-connor","tag-connor-doyle","tag-dow","tag-dow-high","tag-doyle","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-sports-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n