Memo to the NCAA, Boise St. fans are going to be contacting you when at the end of the season when OSU and Alabama are undefeated and Boise who is also undefeated is playing TCU in another "battle of the little program that could" BCS game. Sorry Boise St. fan but it is true. Assuming OSU doesn't screw it up, the Buckeyes have no business losing a regular season game this year and will end up in the BCS National Championship game versus another SEC school (just their luck huh?). If Alabama, OSU and Boise St. ALL finish the season undefeated there is ZERO chance that Boise or TCU for that matter, with their remaining schedules, will ever jump either OSU or Bama. With that being said....is that fair?

With the system set up the way it is there is a lot of debate over if it is fair. There is no playoff and the BCS is set up for the two best teams to play each other in the National Championship game. How do we know Boise St. and TCU aren't better than Alabama and OSU? We don't, but we go off what we know- OSU and Bama play in big time conferences and have big name players, while Boise St. and TCU do not. Who plays QB for TCU? Exactly. Do you know who Doug Martin is? You probably don't. The tradition that these small time schools have is little at most. Is the lack of tradition that these two schools have the fault of their programs? No. They are up and coming programs that just happen to be in non BCS conferences. The next question is how would Boise St. or TCU fair if they were in the Big 10 or SEC or even the ACC or Pac 10? We will never know that for sure, but what we do know is that teams like this deserve a chance to prove themselves against the big boys of college football.

I am 100% in favor of a playoff system. There are many college football fans who chuckle at the thought of Boise St. or TCU beating a big name school. They may be right, and if they are right, then the best teams will still play in the title game. How interesting would it be though if they were wrong and TCU knocked off a powerhouse to move to the next round? I am not going to get into how the playoff system would work, everyone seems to have a brilliant idea, but I will say that college football needs one. Schools that have a strong winning football tradition, long, long ago had to earn it. It took years to do so, but they did it by winning consistently over a long period of time. I believe the NCAA needs to allow smaller schools a true shot to earn powerhouse status. Don't get me wrong, smaller schools like these are to blame as well. Just because you play in a non BCS conference doesn't mean you can't schedule strong non-conference opponents. Now am I speaking too early about 3-4 programs possibly all going undefeated this season? Yes, but it is still a fun debate.

Over time, Boise St. and TCU may fade away and return years later and other small schools will pop up and be the next big thing, but a lot of "big name programs" do as well. Ask Michigan, Tennessee, Florida St., Nebraska and Notre Dame about this. All I am saying is that with the way the NCAA has this currently set up, there is zero chance of a smaller school earning enough respect to reach the BCS championship game unless enough teams lose. For all I know Bama and OSU could both lose and Boise St. gets their shot to play in the big game and they get beat by 30 points. The smaller school haters would be all over the NCAA for allowing this to happen, but does the BCS Championship game always live up to the hype? Since the BCS championship games began back in 1998, only 4 games have been decided by fewer than 10 points. It is time to stop protecting the teams with tradition, and force Goliath to beat David...

See you next week for week #5.

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