A Plan to Fix College Football

Fix it? What's wrong? Oh, come on. As if you didn't know. College Football is great. It has a few rules the NFL should have such as only needing one foot in for a reception. Well come to think of it, that's the only one. It does have rules that I don't like. Those would be the pass interference rule (not a spot foul) and overtime (don't like it... err... hate it).

But I don't watch it unless my alma mater is playing. Why? The most idiotic reason of all: the polls. But wait. You're thinking don't you mean the BCS? Don't you mean the lack of a playoff system? Yes and no. I hate the BCS and hate the bowl system. But I shudder at the thought of polls being part of a playoff system. What makes these egotistical reporters think their opinions are better than a college coaches' or a computer? Nothing but ego.

Since I'm not being paid for this work, I will not go into a diatribe of reasons and support. I will just give you the presidential campaign-like overview.

1. Put every team in a conference. Sorry Notre Dame. You can still play on NBC, but join a conference. Man up.

2. Every conference must have 12 teams playing in two divisions like the SEC. Explanation later.

3. There will be 8 conferences. So what does that mean? Send some schools down to Division II. These 20 plus teams stink and will help the second division.

4. You must play every team in your conference. Sorry SEC. No more playing only your division, the same three inter-division teams every year plus a rotation. There's 11 games right there.

5. But what about non-conference rivals? Sorry. Get them in the same conference. If you play all the teams in your conference, you'll now have 11 rivals.

6. Have a conference playoff game. Let's go PAC 10 and Big 10. This is the first round of the playoffs. Play it on a neutral site.

Where do we go from here? Easy.

7. The conference champions go into the second round. Seed the teams according to record. If there's a tie, flip a coin. There's no bias in coin flipping. The old bowls will be the sites for these games. Everyone knows in advance where their teams will play.

8. The runner-ups play in lesser bowls. You still have bowls.

9. All other teams can schedule bowl games. You can still play non-conference rivals.

There it is. How simple is that?