http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4779279
HAMDEN, Conn. -- A majority of college football fans want to scrap the current Bowl Championship Series and replace it with a playoff system that's similar to college basketball, according to a new national poll released Tuesday.
The Quinnipiac University survey shows 63 percent favor getting rid of the current system, while 26 percent want to keep it. When asked how much they liked the bowl game process, the poll showed fans are mixed.
Bill Hancock, executive director of the Bowl Championship Series, said a playoff system is easier said than done.
"It's easy to support a hypothetical playoff on paper, but no one has come up with a viable way to actually create one without diminishing the value of the regular season and ending the bowl games as we know them," he said. "Yes, a playoff could be created, but at a tremendous loss to the unique game that we love."
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Maybe the current BCS diminishes the value of the undefeated regular seasons that Cincy, TCU, and Boise State have enjoyed. Believe me, the beloved vibe that "the national champion is determined every week" still comes through in my tournament, or I would just get interested in it in early December when all is settled. I am probably THE person in the country who feverishly awaits each new BCS standings, and does web searches to find people who do BCS pre-publication projections because I am so anxious. Would I have excitedly followed the final week's six games that determined the participants (and wrote a blog post about it) if the regular season was meaningless?
Hey Bill, I am trying to keep you and your little cadre of bowls all powerful and relevant. I bet I care more about the non-BCS bowls than you do, since you found it unnecessary to include another bowl when you went from four to five games.
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