I'm
a fan of playoff systems (and am just playing devil's advocate here as I'm not
a fan of the BCS system), but the Green Bay
Packers winning the Super Bowl as the sixth seed (worst in the NFC), the St.
Louis Cardinals winning the World Series as the worst team to make the
playoffs, Tony Stewart the 10th place driving during the regular season winning
the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship with a hot chase, Virginia Commonwealth
making the Final Four when they shouldn't have even made the NCAA tournament to
begin with and the Dallas Mavericks winning the NBA title as the third seed in
a tough Western Conference could mean that the BCS System is the most accurate
system.
None of these teams mentioned were the best in their leagues or even close
to it and all had success and all but VCU have championships. They all got hot
and rode it to the end and that makes you really have to sit back and ask
yourself is that really a better way to determine a champion than the BCS
system.
If the BCS championship game were to be decided today it would be a rematch
between LSU and Alabama and that is the right choice, at least in my opinion,
because those two teams are clearly the two best teams in college football this
season.
If things go the way they are supposed to in sports the two best teams
in each sport would match up against each other for the championship. In a
playoff system that doesn’t always happen, in fact it probably happens less
than more, but the BCS system is typically pretty accurate as it is this year.
Again, I’m not a fan of the BCS system and would prefer to see a playoff
installed in college football, but in a year where seemingly every champion came
from the back of the pack to win it’s got to make you think.
