How I would fix College Football! (or, BCS, my butt!)

Memo:

To: The President of the United States; The Senate; The House of Representatives; Every College President and Athletic Director in the Bowl Subdivision; All College Football Fans

Subject: College Football

The BCS is dismal, we all seem to agree on that. (Well, except College Presidents and people who run current Bowl games, but we'll get to them later.)  I can't for the life of me figure out why this is so hard.  Take the champions of EVERY conference in the Bowl Subdivision.  OK, that is 11 teams.  Have 5 at large bids.  Now we have 16 teams.  Strange, that works out to 16 teams playing on the first week, 8 the second, 4 the third, and two the fourth for the national championship, which is played in one of the five major Bowls.  (Rose, Fiesta, Orange, Sugar, Cotton.)  

Boise State?  Gets a shot!  

TCU?  In there!

Now, if it is this easy, why has it not been done?

Simple.

Money!

Now, the University presidents say that they can't have student-athletes missing finals.  Really?  So have special finals for the players, or reschedule the finals all together.  No, what this is about is money.  College football is the driving force and chief revenue stream for a lot of schools.  The Bowls pay a lot of coin, win or lose.  Fair enough, so play out the bowls with the remaining teams.  Even the teams that get knocked out of the playoff early could get into a late bowl game.

Oh, but that would be too many games, I hear.

OK, so cut the regular schedule to 10-11 games.  Do away with conference championship games.  If a team makes a bowl game, the most they would play is 12, which is the same as some would play in their current seasons.  If they win it all?  A total of 15 games?  Really?  That's too many games?  It's a scorching 1 more game than SEC-ACC teams that win their conference championship game play now, and that would only apply to 2 teams each year.  And anyway, only non football fans would object to MORE college football.  The fans?  Bring it on!   

The bowls are worried that this system would 'de-lute the importance and tradition of the bowls'.  Again, what this REALLY means is they are worried that they will make less money.  College football fans are the most rabid, ...err...I mean loyal fans in the world.  Look at some of the second and third tier bowls under the current system.  Two teams that finish third in their respective conferences sell out bowl games!  You'll still make your money, Mr. Scrooge.

Now lets have an undisputed national champion!