On the night of President Obama's address to Congress, I felt it only fitting to tie this next blog in with an issue he has concerned himself with. While the Predsident's main focuses right now lie with fixing the economy, Barack Obama has many times expressed his desire for a college football playoff system. I could not agree with him more.



The current BCS system is severly flawed. There are 119 teams who are eligible to play in the national championship game. The BCS then chooses the two teams that it feels were the best and gives them the exclusive rights to fight for the national championship. The problem with this is that there are more than two teams that are qualified to play in the title game. This past year Florida and Oklahoma played for the national title. Each of these teams had one lose during the regular season. The thing is 4 other teams had one loss each and Utah had an undefeated record. How can you possibly not give an undefeated team the chance to play for a national title. It just makes no sense. You can't do any better than undefeated yet two teams with one loss were chosen to play over them.

Another issue I have is how the bowls are decided. The bowl games have become more about making money than watching the two best possible teams play. Teams who are not form the most well known conferences will never stand a chance of getting a bowl bid even if they have a better record than a team from the SECor ACC for instance.

The question now becomes what would be the best solution to this problem. A playoff system is the obvious answer to me. The type of playoff system I would like to see would involve 8 teams. These 8 teams would be determined by record, strength of schedule, and last by the style of their victories as well as their defeats. This playoff system would gurantee that everybody has a fair shot to call themselves national champions.