So as we come to a close on another great year of college football, we still have yet to see any signs of a playoff system. I'll get to more on that in a minute, but I think I have found another way to have more and more people gripe about the BCS and how unable it is to crown a true National Champion. As everyone knows, Louisville has jumped up to the #3 spot in the BCS this week. But seeing as how the only team they have played is West Virginia I'm not honestly sure how they made it that far up. That's not my point. My point is to show how the BCS will screw everyone over this year.

1. Let's say Ohio St. beats Michigan at the end of the year. So that drops Michigan to like 4th
   or 5th.
2. Florida loses the SEC Championship game and Texas wins the Big 12 Championship.
   Therefore Texas jumps Louisville who stays #3 in the BCS because they cut it close with
   Rutgers.
3. So the BCS Championship game has a rematch of Ohio St. and Texas and Louisville plays
   Michigan in the Sugar Bowl.
4. You still with me. Alright.
5. Texas upsets Ohio St. in the rematch and therefore claims the AP National Championship.
6. Louisville proves themselves by pulling off the upset of Michigan and proceeds to pull a
   "USC 2003" and claims a National Championship by the Coaches Poll.

The result is that, once again for the 3rd time in the past 5 years, the BCS gets it wrong and fails to crown a true National Champion.

Fast forward to the 2007 where the NCAA has inserted an 8 team playoff. With the last game of an 11 game season ending in the last week of November and no Conference champsionships to worry about, the playoff teams chosen will get two weeks to prepare for their first game, but will have to play the first two rounds in two consecutive weeks. This allows teams to get healed up and fully prepared for their first game and then goes on to simulate the season by only allowing one week to prepare for the second game. The teams are allowed two weeks off before the Championship game so the students can focus on school and have time off for the holidays. The bracket would look like this (using the top eight teams as of Nov. 7, 2006).

Left Bracket
Round 1: December 9th
#1 Ohio St. vs. #8 California (Cotton Bowl)
#4 Florida vs #5 Texas (Capitol One Bowl)
Round 2: December 16th
#1 Ohio St. vs #4 Florida

Right Bracket
Round 1: December 9th
#2 Michigan vs #7 USC (Rose Bowl)
#3 Louisville vs #6 Auburn (Gator Bowl)
Round 2: December 16th
#2 Michigan vs #3 Louisville
(Sugar Bowl)

Championship Game: January 3rd
#1 Ohio St. vs #2 Michigan (Fiesta Bowl)

And that puts Ohio St. claiming the National Championship without any question. The presidents of the conferences will still get their money from the other bowls that are played along with the money they receive from the playoff system, because thousands of fans around the country will make it to at least one of the playoff games. The teams will get exposure throughout the nation with them playing in as many as 3 playoff games. But in my system, the conference will get a certain amount, but that all depends how far the school from their conference makes it in the playoff. The most the conferences can get is 35% from the playoff system and the school will get the rest. They should, because they earned it, especially the schools making it to the National Championship game. Why should teams in the other conference get money when they only won 3 games in the whole season? And, that folks, is how the BCS will fall.