BCS

I haven't had a chance to watch TCU play, but I was able to watch the Boise State game this week against Nevada and we all know how Bama, Texas and Florida are doing. I know Cincinnati is still undefeated but I don't think they will beat Pitt. With the OK State loss that should open the door for Boise State to at least play in a BCS game, I heard the Fiesta Bowl mentioned a lot on the telecast this week, but this still brings up the debate on a playoff. Since most of the larger conferences do a championship game how hard would it be to add 1 to 3 games to their schedule? All they would have to do would be drop a cupcake from their schedule, I would not mind missing Florida beating Charleston-Southern by 59 points. Don't you think that some of the December Bowl games would love to be a playoff instead?

All of the Championship games will be finished by the end of the day next Saturday 12/5, the bowl games start two weeks later on 12/19. Here are the top 8 in the BCS ranking: Florida, Bama, Texas, TCU, Cincinnati, Boise State, Oregon, and Georgia Tech. Tech lost yesterday and will drop with either Ohio State or Iowa moving up, probably Ohio State. If Pitt wins then they will be in instead of Cincinnati. So here would be a possible playoff tree:
Florida vs. Ohio State, Texas vs Oregon, TCU vs. Bama, Cincinnati vs. Boise State (this is assuming that Number 1 Florida wins and Cincinnati wins as well). The first 4 bowl games are as follows:

New Mexico (MWC vs. WAC)	Albuquerque, N.M. University Stadium	Dec. 19 4:30 p.m.	ESPN
St. Petersburg (Big East vs. C-USA)	St. Petersburg, Fla. Tropicana Field	Dec. 19 8 p.m.	ESPN
R+L Carriers New Orleans (C-USA vs. Sun Belt)	New Orleans Louisiana Superdome	Dec. 20 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
MAACO Las Vegas (MWC vs. Pac-10)	Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium	Dec. 22 8 p.m.	ESPN

So you don't think those cities would love a playoff game instead of Fresno State vs. Wyoming? The next round would be the weekend of or after Christmas, here are the bowl games on the 26th and 27th:

Little Caesars (Big Ten vs. MAC)	Detroit Ford Field	Dec. 26 1 p.m.	ESPN
Meineke Car Care (ACC vs. Big East)	Charlotte, N.C. Bank of America Stadium	Dec. 26 4:30 p.m.	ESPN
Emerald (ACC vs. Pac-10)	San Francisco AT&T Park	Dec. 26 8 p.m.	ESPN
Gaylord Hotels Music City (ACC vs. SEC)	Nashville, Tenn. LP Field	Dec. 27 8:30 p.m.	ESPN

You could rotate the games through2 of those bowls every year. That gives the possibility of a losers game for 3/4 and a real championship game this year on Jan 5 and Jan 7. This would mean more money for the colleges from the extra filled bowl games, the cities would love the extra traffic they get as well. We have all seen the mostly empty stadium's for the early bowl games so there is no monetary loss here. The NCAA could pool the money gained at the early games and feed it to the teams or conferences that would be losing money from not having an opportunity to play a bowl game as well, revenue sharing at it's best as they would get more money this way anyway. The money issue is the only reason that this hasn't happened yet and the NCAA would make more anyway. The other reason that has been stated is academic workload, but most if not all of the bowl games are after the school's have their finals anyway.

We all know the system is flawed and that nothing will change unless the NCAA is forced by congress to change it, but wouldn't it be fun to watch these games instead of Bowling Green vs. Southern Miss?