Wherein I solve the world's problems.
I can fix college football tomorrow. Yep, tomorrow. Now you may be thinking that I'm going to say we should have a playoff. You would be wrong. The solution is a little bit more radical. We need to go back. Way back.
Thusly,
Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman fire up the Way-Back machine and take us back to a time when the college football landscape made sense. A time before 1992 and the creation of the wretched Bowl Coalition. One might think that that were enough, but, lo, our time machine must continue. We must go back to before 1976 when the Sugar Bowl tied itself to the SEC. We must return prior to 1968 when the Orange Bowl shackled itself to the the Big 8. We must press on to heady 1946, a time before when the PCC and Big 9 hitched their wagons in perpetuity to the Rose Bowl. We can stop here since the SWC is dead anyway.
Returning to the present, we carry with us the memory of a time before conference tie-ins destroyed college football. The rot that set in in 1947 festered for quite some time. The presence of many independents masked the unsound structure. As we lost Penn State, Florida State, Miami, and many others from the ranks of the independents, the ramshackle nature of what had been built revealed itself. Throwing good money after bad, we attempted to press on, which has ultimately brought us the BCS.
So, tomorrow, we end abolish the BCS. In its stead, there are only two rules which apply to any and all bowls such as may arise.
1. Collusion between or among bowls is forbidden.
2. Conference tie-ins are forbidden.
The Rose Bowl crowd may howl, but I would point out that the Rose Bowl could invite its Big 10/Pac 10 friends every year. They may have to pay through the nose to get them and lock them up, but them's the breaks. Ah, the disruptive force of the pre-1991 Fiesta bowl loosed writ large! Two simple rules are all it take to get us the best possible system. Money talks. And national title games make money. Every bowl will want one. One will pay enough to get it. It's like Thunderdome.
Thusly,
Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman fire up the Way-Back machine and take us back to a time when the college football landscape made sense. A time before 1992 and the creation of the wretched Bowl Coalition. One might think that that were enough, but, lo, our time machine must continue. We must go back to before 1976 when the Sugar Bowl tied itself to the SEC. We must return prior to 1968 when the Orange Bowl shackled itself to the the Big 8. We must press on to heady 1946, a time before when the PCC and Big 9 hitched their wagons in perpetuity to the Rose Bowl. We can stop here since the SWC is dead anyway.
Returning to the present, we carry with us the memory of a time before conference tie-ins destroyed college football. The rot that set in in 1947 festered for quite some time. The presence of many independents masked the unsound structure. As we lost Penn State, Florida State, Miami, and many others from the ranks of the independents, the ramshackle nature of what had been built revealed itself. Throwing good money after bad, we attempted to press on, which has ultimately brought us the BCS.
So, tomorrow, we end abolish the BCS. In its stead, there are only two rules which apply to any and all bowls such as may arise.
1. Collusion between or among bowls is forbidden.
2. Conference tie-ins are forbidden.
The Rose Bowl crowd may howl, but I would point out that the Rose Bowl could invite its Big 10/Pac 10 friends every year. They may have to pay through the nose to get them and lock them up, but them's the breaks. Ah, the disruptive force of the pre-1991 Fiesta bowl loosed writ large! Two simple rules are all it take to get us the best possible system. Money talks. And national title games make money. Every bowl will want one. One will pay enough to get it. It's like Thunderdome.