My Two Yards: Week No. 15

Imagine a place where the 2nd place runner wins the race. Or where a kid who mispells a word wins the spelling bee. Or where two people can win an eating contest. Or where the guy who wins the fewest popular votes wins the presidency...wait, never mind that one.

This is the world of the current BCS. Every year some sort of controversy happens. This needs to be fixed asap. Here's my solution.

Every BCS conference gets 12 teams. Notre Dame, stop being arrogant pricks and join the freakin Big Ten already. Big East, add someone, anyone. Ditto Pac-10.Drop one nonconference game (to shorten the season) and eliminate divisions so every team in the conference plays each other round-robin style. Add a 6th BCS Bowl (another for mid-majors, etc.) and keep the Bowls the same so the same amount of teams get the benefits of the postseason.

Eliminate pre-season polls and rely more on the computers. 12 teams will get in to BCS Bowls. The winners of the BCS Bowls will move on to a 6 team playoff with #1 and #2 seeds recieving a bye. This would keep the Bowl tradition intact and eliminate split champions as desired. This way a team could lose the title game but still be the 2008 Rsse Bowl champions or whatever.

Not a bad consolation prize.

The financial benefits of the playoff games would be enormous and there would only be potentially 2 more games on the schedule because there is one less non-conference game. This way cupcakes like Appalachian State will be avoided (wait, never mind).

Of course there are still flaws such as the BCS system still deciding what teams will recieve BCS bids. Some quality teams will be out of the championship picture but at least this way there are still Bowls such as Capital One, Cotton, etc for teams left out to recieve the perks of a bowl game.

--Chris Nierman