1. RC Thurston

2.  The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a five-
game showcase of college football.
 A 2007 Gallop poll showed that 85% of college
football fans supported a change to a playoff
system of some kind.
 The BCS games are operated by community-
based organizations in each of the host cities.

3.  The BCS came into picture in the 1998 season.
 The first BCS championship game was held in
January of 1999 between Tennessee and Florida
State.
 Tennessee won 23-16 to become the first BCS
National Champions.
 The first controversy of the BCS was about two
years ago.

4.  The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
 The Discover Orange Bowl
 The Rose Bowl Game
 The Allstate Sugar Bowl and
 The BCS National Championship Game that is
played at one of the bowl sites.

5.  Why won’t the BCS be changed to a playoff
system?
A: “The BCS is working, at least in the
conferences' eyes. Any chance of a college
football playoff is dead” (Mark Schlabach).

6.  The BCS is unfairly picked.
For example this years national championship
is LSU vs. Alabama when LSU has already
beaten Alabama. So why not give some one
else a chance?

7.  The BCS rewards undefeated BCS teams, so
schools sometimes try to schedule games
against weaker opponents to protect their
records.
 A playoff would remove the easy schedule.
 It would make the championship solely about
performance.

8.  A playoff system would not mean the end of
the BCS rankings.
 Which could still be used to determine the top
4, 8, 12, or 16 teams, depending on how many
playoff games are feasible.
 Every game during the regular season would
still be as important as under the current
system.
 A few losses would make it difficult for a team
to qualify for the playoffs.

9.  The BCS rankings are designed to favor
consistency over the course of the entire
season.
 It rewards teams that beat the opponents they
are supposed to beat as well as underdogs that
upset higher-ranked teams.
 Under a playoff system, a team could lose an
entire season's worth of hard work by having
one bad day.

10.  The proposed playoff system alternatives are
actually less fair than the BCS system in place.
 In a league of 120 teams, there is no way for
every team to play each other in the course of
the regular season, let alone in a playoff during
the post-season.

11.  The BCS conferences have stronger teams in
them.
 An undefeated or one-loss record in a BCS
conference should mean more than the same
record in a weaker, non-BCS conference
because the teams are not facing opponents of
the same quality.
 The BCS rankings consider strength of
schedule in the computer rating formulas, and
the human voters account for it as well.

12.  ”The NCAA still has no interest in sponsoring
a national playoff” (Mark Emmert NCAA
president).

13.  The BCS need to switch to a playoff system to
have a true national championship.