College Football Playoff Plan: Author Dan Wetzel
There are simply too many qualified teams to have one game for the national championship. There is a lack of excitement at the end of a great football seasons. The bowl game match ups are sometimes interesting but still are not backed by meaning. Smaller teams like TCU never get a chance to prove themselves against the established great programs. Even the majority of the players want a playoff.
Pros, cons of a college football playoff:
Having a playoff is a more fair way of deciding a national champion. Having a playoff system would generate a lot more money than the current bowl system does. Cons include that the playoff system would possibly take away from an exciting regular season. The playoffs would be around the weeks leading up to and including finals, taking academic time away from the athletes. Also the bowl system spreads the wealth more with so many teams getting a chance to have a successful postseason.
BCS Flaws: By Alex Groberman
Looking to the NCAA basketball system exposes the flaws of the BCS. Football creates no electricity for its postseason. Even though defenders of the BCS state that the current system makes every game count, there is more emphasis on particular games. People will still care about the regular season because there are such few games, giving each one meaning. A playoff system will end the controversy once and for all.
Many of the articles I am looking at are providing similar views with minor differences in talking points. Most of the articles strongly support changing to some type of playoff system. It is much harder to search for articles that support the current system. Most of these articles do not talk much about what the actual new system would look like. The points made are more about just why a change should be made.
