Bill Bowl

In the past, I have complained about how terrible the collegiate football ranking and BCS system is, but it appears that there may be some changes in store. I still won't give a shit about it, but at least it should be a more just system...

Of course, it comes at the cost of having to ask if the federal government has better things to do than deal with college football (answer: it does). But the NCAA and the BCS have not exactly their strengthened their credibility with the annual fiasco that is their rankings and berths. Some even say that denying Boise State and TCU of chances to play BCS-caliber teams as what finally brought Congress into legislating college football, though I have no idea who says that or what it means, because I don't follow it and only read that that could be a reason.

Today a House subcommittee approved legislation aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine a national champion, naturally over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress had more pressing matters on its plate...though no word on which party was pushing harder for college ball. The bill faces long odds of becoming law, and would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I football game as a national championship unless that title contest is the result of a playoff. FOX Sports has more if you care (and if you do, you probably don't care about hockey and F1 - which are way better).

Know that, even if this bill passes (which it probably won’t), we'll probably be stuck with the bowls - there's too much sponsorship money in there. And it still won't make college football entirely honest; one of the yearly complaints is that referees in BCS leagues are giving away calls to keep their teams undefeated, and the other big trouble is that decent “mid-majors” programs can't even get scheduled against any of the big boys, keeping them eternally out of the championship. Wow, I actually sounded like I knew something about college football.