Best analogy I've heard so far -- regarding the fact that your team goes undefeated throughout the season but doesn't have an opportunity to play for the title -- is that if the Patriots run the table, they still don't get to go the Super Bowl because they play in such a weak division.
Hawaii is the only undefeated Division-I team in the nation this season, but because of some arcane BCS magic, they're relegated to a third-tier bowl game.
High school football has a playoff system. Division III and Division II both have playoffs. So does the NFL. There is no compelling reason for Division I football to hold onto an out-of-date and increasingly irrelevant bowl game format, when every year there are teams who should have an opportunity to play for the national championship, but don't.
Any ranking system that keeps an undefeated team out of the championship game is fatally flawed. Period.
Hawaii is the only undefeated Division-I team in the nation this season, but because of some arcane BCS magic, they're relegated to a third-tier bowl game.
High school football has a playoff system. Division III and Division II both have playoffs. So does the NFL. There is no compelling reason for Division I football to hold onto an out-of-date and increasingly irrelevant bowl game format, when every year there are teams who should have an opportunity to play for the national championship, but don't.
Any ranking system that keeps an undefeated team out of the championship game is fatally flawed. Period.
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