Blog #4: The (NOT so) most wonderful time of the year!

HEY! Welcome back and thanks for stepping into the CPM Sports Zone! Here's a recap of what you may have missed over the past three weeks. Week one we discussed the growing interest being shown in Women's pro basketball and how a few players locked me in to their product. Week two, we relieved the most fulfilling moment of my athletic career as my baseball team travelled to New York and won the entire tournament. This past week, we discussed the idea behind those athlete edits you've see me post on Instagram with the story of my #CityPride artwork. This week, I'll tell you why it's NOT the most wonderful time of the year.

It's December, so everyone has their Christmas trees up, lights and stockings hung and their pajamas on waiting for Christmas morning, but in the world of College Football, it's turned into the NOT so most wonderful time of the year. It's Bowl season with yet another month and a half with the ever convoluted Bowl Championship Series (BCS) computer generated standings system selects which teams will partake in the so call "National Championship Game" while the remain X number of teams are shoved to either the Rose, Sugar, Orange or Fiesta Bowl. Oh yeah, then there's the other thirty one (31) no valued added bowl games, where it seems EVERYONE gets into a bowl game nowadays.

Do ANY of my readers remember a point in time when there was maybe 8-10 bowl games every year? Nowadays there's thirty five (35) bowl games. The reason why I feel like this isn't the most wonderful time of the year, is due to the fact:

1. Of the current BCS system (Computer generated)

AND

2. The grand total of games played: 35

The new proposed BCS Playoff system would feature either 4 or 8 teams
in a bracket styled tournament to determine the National Champion.

Thankfully, the NCAA has decided to get rid of the current BCS system with a panel of acclaimed personnel to decide who will partake in a newly formulated four (4) or eight (8) team playoff tournament format. The panel will include current school athletic directors, famous players and a whole boat load of others to determine the teams that will qualify for the BCS bowl games (Title, Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange). With this newly formulated playoff format, we will never be succumbed to the travesty that was the original BCS bowl system format that was determined by computers based a whole criteria of categories, with a more simpler and more productive system with a panel of accomplished dignitaries selecting the best 4 or 8 teams to play in the BCS Bowl games.

READER'S POLL QUESTION: What system works the best in your mind?

A. The current BCS system
OR
B. The 2014 system with the 4/8 team playoff bracket

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Callan McClurg