I love watching college football. I watch the regular season and I track who ends up in which bowl and talk about who belongs and who shouldn't be there. Then who deserves to be the national champion. Currently we have the BCS, and all it has to offer. For the most part, I believe it is a good system. Every year the debate goes on about why there should be a playoff system. Simply put - there shouldn't be!

A big part of the game is TRADITION. Unlike politics, taxes and war, people's lives (in general) are not going to be affected in life and death matters with how football is played. It is an area where we can enjoy doing something the way our fathers did regardless of whether it is the best system or not. No one will die because of it. Lets enjoy our traditions when we can, gather with family and friends and have fun.

I do propose one change in the system. Add one national championship game. A panel of professionals, not affiliated with a specific school or conference, will pick the two most deserving teams who won their bowl games to play in the championship game. Most likely the two teams will comes from the BCS games, as those are generally the best teams. It will allow for the occasional cinderella team that the computers bump to the ninth spot to still make the game though.

This past year for example, you would probably have seen Miami play Oregon. Even if Nebraska had been bumped in the BCS, Colorado was next in line, because the computers didn't give Oregon enough credit. Oregon then trounced Colorado - what do computers know. But overall, Miami, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska were 4 of the top teams in the nation. The pressure of the bowl games narrowed down who the top two should have been.

One of the few arguments I hear for a playoff is that a team that has a bad game in the beginning of the season and losses is penalized and has to rely on other teams to lose in order to get back to the top of the pack If you have a playoff all the top 4, 8, or 16 get a chance and the number three team won't get left out due to a bad game. What if the best team has a bad game in the first round of the playoffs and gets knocked out. The same result: you do not have the top two in the championship. With my system, you can make up for previous bad games with a big bowl win. If you have a second bad game in the bowl, you don't deserve to be the champion anyway. How you play under pressure is part of college football.

What about money? Each school in the bowl games gets quite a bit of money. If there are 25 bowls, then 50 teams gets payouts. If there is an eight team playoff, only eight get the payouts, with the champion actually getting three payouts. This would not exactly be fair. There would have to be a division of the funds set up and divide the money among all the 100+ schools in the division. I do not see this happening.

Now all we have to do is add one game, pick a panel of professionals, get multiple sponsors (no corporate national championship), and have the proceeds go to charity since all the bowl teams already got paid.