BCS Bowl Game Analysis

When you watch the BCS Bowl in college football and your team isn’t in it, do you ever think that your team was robbed of a shot at greatness because of a loss to a hard team, or that the teams in it had an easy schedule so they could get to where they are? That's just a few of the complaints that were given in order to get rid of the BCS bowl and have the playoff system put into place, and that was the right move. The BCS bowl was started in 1998 where the top two teams played each other for the title of national champion while the other eight teams played in four different bowl games. In 2014 however, the BCS bowl came to an end and was replaced with the College Football Playoffs in which the top four teams played in a playoff system, with the first seed playing the last seed and the second seed plays the third seed. There are many other reasons for this and they will be covered later in this essay. One reason is that the BCS sometimes leaves out the beast teams from the championship game. This is due to when a team would lose one game with the BCS system, their chances are most likely dead. But now, according to ESPN, the rankings with the playoffs are more objective.

In 2014, the first year of the playoff system, the last seed won the entire series with a given loss in the regular season, this is proof that the best teams aren't

Rankings with the BCS were always made by a committee of people and this left for some flaws in the rankings and didn't allow room for any other kind of ranking system. Now with the playoffs though, the rankings are computerized and they take into consideration the toughness of the opponents and the points scored and points allowed. This means if a team that is less talented players a top school team but loses, if they put up a fight and allowed little points or scored many points then they won't be greatly hurt by that