The current bowl game system is criticized because it doesn't produce a legitimate national champion football team. A playoff system is proposed. But that scheme is badly flawed for these reasons:
- A playoff system can never satisfy critics who will always dispute the choice of teams and pairings.
- A playoff system involves not one but several post-season games, involving massive travel and time expenditures -A playoff system demands participation of staff, cheerleaders and bands in addition to teams, and this amounts to a huge investment in non-educational activity.
- A playoff system of, say, eight teams produces one winner and seven losers.
- A playoff system is based on the notion that a single champion is required for a meaningful season.
That is absurd. A more reasonable view is that with thirty-five bowl games there are thirty-five winning teams; the season ends in consonance with academic schedules; seventy campuses are involved for a single game only; athletes are adequately displayed and lauded; media networks are kept fully involved.
Disputes over pairings and timing will always abound. The Bowl System is still a sensible ending of the football season.
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