A Solution to the BCS: A Division One College Football Playoff

How often after the National Championship game do we college football fans find ourselves left wondering if the best team really won? How often do we wonder if the best team or teams even got to play? If you are like me then that happens to you more often than not, both before and after the installation of the BCS. Let us start with the most current BCS travesty: Boise State. The Broncos went 12-0 undefeated, but played conference games in the WAC, a mid-major conference. Subsequently, Boise State played 11-2 Oklahoma instead of Ohio State—the only other undefeated team. Ohio State was embarrassed by LSU and Boise State upset Oklahoma in what may be one of the greatest games of all time. Those events left Boise State as the only undefeated team in the nation, without a national championship, without even a shared National Championship like USC enjoyed after being passed over in 2003. Just two years before the Boise State affair, the Auburn Tigers went undefeated in the SEC, beating the ... (link)