This season's bowl games are just more proof that we need a playoff. Connecticut, who is not even ranked in the BCS top 25 gets a BCS bowl and Michigan St who is ranked 9th does not. Why does UConn get one? Well that's because they are the Big Least champions, that's why. Even if their record is 8-4 as opposed to Michigan State's 11-1, it doesn't matter because they outrightly won their crappy conference. Virginia Tech (11-2, ranked 13th) gets a BCS bowl and #9 Michigan State does not. That's because VA Tech also won their weak conference. Michigan State beat Wisconsin (the only team to do so), and Wisconsin was the only team to beat Ohio State (Mich St didn't play OSU this year). So you would think that would put Michigan State above both teams in the rankings. But, no--both Wisconsin and Ohio State are above them. Michigan State's schedule is also considered to be toughter than both Wisky and OSU. So how does that make sense that they are ranked below both teams?
The BCS is seriously flawed, and the current system of bowl games is often unfair to deserving teams. Division 1-A (I refuse to use the new term FBS for Div 1-A as I think it's stupid and meaningless) needs a 16 team playoff. Everyone else has a playoff system except for Div 1-A. High school football has one, all the other college levels have one and the pros have one. I'm all for tradition, but I'm sick of there often being no clear national champion. I agree that Oregon and Auburn appear to be the best two teams in the country, but who's to say on any given day that they couldn't be beaten by say Wisconsin or Oklahoma (or Michigan State for that matter)? Without a playoff, we'll never know.
And just so nobody mistakes me for a sore Michigan State fan, please know that I am a diehard Michigan fan who bleeds blue. I just don't like injustice, and Sparty has most definitely been denied the respect and bowl game they deserve.
