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No League Title Required is Best
Published: 6/30/2012 2:58 PM
Last Modified: 6/30/2012 2:58 PM

The new BCS formula to select the final four of college football will not include a requirement of a conference championship.
That’s good.
There was some discussion that perhaps the final four football teams should be conference champions only.
That was an especially popular sentiment after LSU and Alabama, two teams from the same division in the same league, played in the national title game last year.
Luckily, the BCS Commissioners and BCS Presidential Oversight Committee approved a selection plan that simply gives some preference, at the discretion of the selection committee, for conference champions.
That’s the way it should be. The final four of football should be the best four, regardless of how many there are from one league.
In recent years. you had Alabama and LSU that would have made the final four at the same time along with Oklahoma and Texas (in 2009 out of the Big 12).
That may make it tougher on the non-traditional powerhouse leagues such as Conference USA to get teams into the final four but there should be some consideration of what league you play in and the level of competition you’ve played in that league.
So, it is best that there is no requirement for a conference trophy to be in the hunt for the national title.
It should be about the best four teams. How they decide those four will be interesting and the most hotly debated issue in the next two years of leadup to the new college football playoff plan.



Reader Comments 3 Total

colhi64 (8 months ago)
All this means is that its an easy way to shut out the NQ leagues and keep the big bucks in the AQ leagues. Just plain wrong. May as well not even have the 4 team playoff, its the same BS in a lil different format.
Bart78 (8 months ago)
The new football championship method merely acknowledges that human bias exists, makes some effort to account for it, and finally throws in the towel with the hope that a strong majority will agree with their four-team selection. The selection group will do well to use the conference championships as a strong area of consideration in most years. Last year was an aberration but was a good thing in showing the need for the playoff with seeding that would follow the Final Four pattern on conference members not meeting in the first round.
Long Live Gusty! (8 months ago)
Why have conferences if the championship is meaningless?
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