If Philly and SD both win...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by miraja2

People can say what you want about the BCS, but at least in that system there isn't the chance that a .500 team gets hot at the end and wins a championship. It happened in baseball a few years ago with St. Louis, and it could happen this year in the NFL.
I'll grant that there are plenty of negatives about the BCS, but at least there the team that wins the national championship had to have actually been a good team over the course of the season.

I hear ya ... but I think college football is a perfect Sport for an 8 team tournament.

Take the winner of the Big 10, Pac 10, SEC, ACC, BIG 12, and BIG East, - and for the final two spots ... take the two highest rated teams from the following confrences: Conference USA, WAC, Sun Belt, Mountain West, MAC, or a 1A Independant if Notre Dame can ever resume its glory days.

Use final year end rankings to seed the schools from 1-through-8.

1 hosts 8, 2 hosts 7, 3 hosts 6, 4 hosts 5.

This way, cold weather schools from the northeast and mid-west aren't handicapped by having to play constantly in warm weather. While these warm weather schools with high concept offenses aren't always playing games in perfect weather conditions.

If this would have happened this year...

you'd have ended up with:

#8 Va Tech at #1 Oklahoma
#7 Cincinnati at #2 Florida
#6 Boise State at #3 USC
#5 Penn State at #4 Utah

And finally - because the schools from warm weather states in the south and west with high concept offenses always deserve a huge edge over cold weather schools who play pro style - the National Championship game will be played in the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, or Orange Bowl alternating years.