BCS FOOTBALL REMEDY

what is all the fuss about a playoff? it seems simple to me.

take 7 major conference champs and then add 9 wild card teams from conferences or independents that play challenging schedules and you have 16 teams AND america's attention.

no one gets in if they have more than 2 losses or if they play in a traditionally weak conference like the sun belt, mid-american, western athletic or conference usa. if those teams want 'in the loop' then they'll have to switch to one of the major conferences and prove they belong and climb the mountain week by week like everyone else.

this year it might be FLORIDA, TEXAS, TCU, CINCINNATI, GEORGIA TECH, OHIO STATE & OREGON as the 7 champs. then add IOWA, ALABAMA, PITTSBURGH, MIAMI (FL), HOUSTON, ARIZONA, PENN STATE, LSU & WISCONSIN. utah & west virginia would also be candidates.

you seed the 16 and have then it's 4 games to the championship with the playoffs starting the second Saturday of December with the big game played somewhere around new year's day. it would generate tremendous interest and while it might mean the demise of about ten bowl games currently played (there are 34 scheduled this year!) but the less sucessful ones come & go on a regular basis anyway. no less than 9 bowls have gone the way of the dinosaur over the last 20 years so that would just be business as usual. i guarantee the playoff would guarantee sellouts all over the country

15 bowls sites would be used up for the big boy playoffs and then schools like akron, northern illinois, boise, nevada and the like could fill in whatever bowls that are left and remember there would also be twenty teams from the big boy circuit who had just 3 losses so you could set up all sorts of david/goliath showdowns. WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE? bring it on!