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Source: Dawgs Sports website, Feb. 22, 2011 This year has been the best one yet! Your favorite college football team has just accomplished a spectacular undefeated season. They are pretty much unstoppable this year and you think that they for sure are going to be playing in the college football championship game come January. Then you learn there is a problem. Instead of celebrating like you should, you learn there is something wrong with your ideas of who is going to play your team in the BCS. Your team isn’t even in it! Yep, the same roadblock every non-BCS team runs into. Teams like Utah’s Utes, Boise State’s Buster Broncos, and TCU’s Horned Frogs will never play in a BCS championship game unless they either join a BCS conference or if a playoff system is created. Many fans, players, and coaches want a playoff system to come into effect for college football so that their team isn’t left out like many fantastic teams have been in the past. Colleges do playoffs for all other sports in college so many people are asking why it cannot be done for the greatest sport in college, football! The problem with this is many people love the BCS and how it works. The sponsors of the bowl games want the BCS to stay intact as well. They get every region lots of money and allow for many teams to play in a bowl game. History of the BCS 
BCS Trophy. Source: The Sports Jury website, Feb. 22, 2011 The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was established in 1998 to help determine the national champion of college football while maintaining a bowl system that is nearly one hundred years old. The conferences that are in the BCS are Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, Sun Belt, Pacific-10, Southeastern and Western Athletic. The BCS was created to put the top two BCS- ranked college football teams against each other and back then it seemed to be the perfect way. The problem with the BCS now days is many fans feel like the only way of knowing who the TRUE champion of college football that year is will have to be by determined by having playoffs. Lots of people feel as if sometimes the best teams have been left out of the championship football game and it has been going around for a while that playoffs need to happen. An example of the teams that should be playing in the championship games and were left out due to being in the non-BCS is the University of Utah Utes. They were the only undefeated team in two thousand and eight at 13-0. Instead of them playing in the BCS bowl that year, the non-undefeated Florida Gators and Oklahoma Sooners did. It has become a major debate whether the BCS should stay as it has been since it was started 13 years ago or if a playoff system should now take it’s place. BCS- Bowl Championship Series 
2011 BCS National Championship. Source: Sports Chat Place website, Feb. 22, 2011 The Bowl Championship Series has been really good about getting lots of teams money, sponsors, and matching teams that bring the most interest along with good parings. If a playoffs system was to happen it would probably make the regular 13-week regular season go about one month longer than normal. That would lead to interference with the student’s class studies and also could lead to more injuries (Procon 1). Out of everything said by the many supporters of the Bowl Championship Series, the main thing brought up by the BCS supporters is that “It is the best interest of the athletes, fans, and sponsors because the bowl games generate huge profits for schools and their economies, keep the season shorter for student athletes, and almost always have the two best teams playing each other for the national title” (Procon 1). The computer part for BCS rankings that is used for choosing how to rank each team uses the following stat factors to rank the teams; Wins and losses, strength of schedule, opponent’s strength of schedule, and other minor stats like defensive scoring performance (Carey 1, 2). All of the teams that are in the BCS league have no weeks off. Those that are not in the BCS conferences, like Boise State, have all year to prepare for a challenging game and then after that game they can rest and will not have to worry about losing any more when they are playing a team like San Jose State (Dorunda 3). Having the BCS system makes every regular season game that more important so they can finish in the top two. That way the importance of every game increases attendance along with the revenue (Procon 2). Having the BCS also helps share the revenue with teams that would not make the playoffs if there were to be a playoff system. Playoffs 
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