Michigan vs. Ohio State
Michigan vs. Ohio State should have still played for the National Championship
Based on the display Ohio State and Michigan put on this bowl season it’s easy to say that Florida was the right choice. However an Ohio State vs. Michigan match-up would have been much closer and much more exciting. Troy Smith acted as if he did not even care to be playing Florida. He still seemed disinterested even after the game. Truthfully the USC vs. Michigan match-up was probably the better of the two games prior to them being played. Michigan never plays well on the west coast, and they really seemed not to care as well.
With all that being said USC and Florida were most likely the two best teams. I know this makes no sense to say after the above paragraph was spent defending the two big ten powers. It does make sense however if you realize this article was written after the games were played. College football is such a great sport and continues to rise in ratings each year. The feel of going to a game or getting together with some friends to watch on a crisp Saturday afternoon is unbeatable. The only problem is that the BCS system is such a mess that by the end of the year it almost always disappoints. There are exceptions (USC vs. Texas), however most the time it leaves fans wondering what happened. A lot of these bowl games are so insignificant it’s really boring for fans not associated with the team or school. Especially the passive fan. Supposedly there is a system being worked on and hopefully implemented slowly over the next couple of years. Maybe this is only a dream, but for the games sake this needs to happen.
The scenario that seems to work the best is a top eight team playoff system. Other schools can still play in their precious bowl games, but can you imagine the excitement of this playoff. It would only result in one or two extra bowl games for schools. That solves the amount of games being a concern. Plus keeping it to the top eight teams comes as close as you can to having the elite teams of the year all getting a shot at the championship. It allows for a slip up as well if a great team happens to play poorly on one individual day during the regular season. It still remains to be seen what is going to happen, but I would think a playoff system would work in every-ones favor. Hopefully the next article on this subject will be about the first shot at the development of a playoff.
