We have all heard solutions to the BCS. I admit, the BCS is a complete cluster !@#$%. It presumes that arm chair viewers can determine who are the two best teams instead of deciding it on the field. In addition, people will have a cow if the bowls are scrapped. My personal opinion is that the bowls are silly. The only decent argument I have heard for keeping the bowls is recruiting. However, I have a solution that keeps all but one bowl a year intact and still has a playoff.
Solution 1#: Least impactful
Have the top four teams play a single game (two games total) in the first week of December using ranking to determine home field. That intensifies the regular season as the rankings would be more imporant than ever. After that game is played, those two teams play in the championship game scheduled about when the current BCS championship game is schedule. Thus, that could be on January 1st or could be a little later. The bowl seeding would then work exactly as it does now accounting for host bowls losing a team. This does not push the season any longer. If it were, teams could cut back one game in order to accomodate. That would make the season as short as it was two years ago.
Solution #2: Better
Same idea as above, except that you play two weeks of games in the first two weeks of December. You seed the top eight teams and after both games are played everyone gets seeded into bowls as they would have normally.
Both solutions keep the bowls intact, have the least impact on the schedule and might actually produce a champion on which everyone can agree. Of course, it also maintains the big six conference's strangehold on all the money.
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