BCS Meetings

This argument is pure sophistry.  Non-BCS teams had virtually no access to bowls.  So now because one team out of 45 may get to play per year, this is a great accomplishment?  You gotta be kidding me!

That's far from true.  The current Bowl make-up has 34 games and the 45 non-BIG 6 teams by my count have 19 slots in those 34 bowl games. 

Come on SEC, we're talking about the BCS and the 5 BCS bowls.  And now you try to use statistics from ALL bowls.  Just what does the fact that the MAC has a slot in the International Bowl have to do with the BCS Championship?  And now, you believe the BCS deserves credit for getting non-BCS teams slots in non-BCS bowls?  Seriously, you're making this up as you go along.  We don't have to agree, but these arguments just don't hold water.

A true national championship requires access from more than 10 teams.  And we're supposed to have pity for the 3rd or 4th place SEC team?  Win your conference and you're in.  Win a non-BCS conference and you probably don't even get invited.  Hey, I'm not saying every team has to have the same path in a playoff.  That's what seeding is for.  That's what byes are for.  That's what play-in games are for.  That's what at large teams are for. So seed the Mountain West last, or make them play a play-in game (even against another non-BCS team).  At  least you give them a shot at a National Championship.   If they knock off three other conference champs in playoffs why can't they be the National Champion?  The answer now is solely because the BCS won't let them play.  To me this is truly sad.  You say these teams have never shown they can do this?  So what do you have to worry about?  Why are you afraid of Cinderella?

Having a tourney with those conference champs makes a mockery of any legitimate attempt to crown a NC and is a complete waste of time. College football is not a tourney sport and after a regular season there are fewer, not more teams worthy of a NC.  One of the undisputed truths of life, the non-BIG 6 conference champs don't have a snowballs chance of winning your tourney much less than a NC.  There is a reason a #16 has never beaten a #1 in the BB tourney.  Good luck selling this nonsense to the college football world.

AMEN, AMEN, and once more AMEN.

To open it up to include a bunch of undeserving conference champs is a joke. 

At last! The real core of your argument! You don't believe any team that's not in a BCS conference is "worthy" of playing in a national championship.  Other than the one possible bone a year the BCS throws them.  Why is that? Let me make your argument for you.  The BCS conferences have more tradition, more bowl wins, more mythical national championships etc etc etc.  Because of this prior history, BCS teams deserve to play for a national championship, while non-BCS teams do not.

Fair enough.  Some teams are deserving and some are not.  So who gets to decide.  The BCS conferences!  Wow, how convenient for them!  So no matter who you are, if you're in the right conference you can play for an NC, if not too bad.  MIght be fair if the better non-BCS schools like a  Boise State or a BYU had a chance to get into a BCS conference and you could relegate the Vanderbilts, Minnesotas, Dukes, and the rest to a non-BCS conference. But we know that will never happen.

So  the BCS schools feel the non-BCS schools are unworthy.  So why don't you play them and find out?  Why don't you strap it on like Georgia did and kick the crap out of them in a real national championship?  The answer is plain old cowardice.  These BCS schools are afraid to lose.  So rather than have a real NC, you continue to play these mythical national championships based on polls, and computers and more polls and now 1 game too!  Wow.  And even though these are still mythical, you will crow and blow your horns that you're the "National Champ" even though you have prohibited half the schools from even competing. 

 The BCS conferences think they are Division 1 football.  College football is a sport played by  120 teams in this country.  Some day, we'll find out exactly who the national champion is, on the field.  In the meantime, keep playing your limited access tournament  and calling it a national championship.   You're not fooling anyone.

Fortunately, there are other places to define the word champion, than the bogus BCS. Try the Random House Dictionary for example:

<table minmax_bound="true" class="luna-Ent"> <tbody minmax_bound="true"> <tr minmax_bound="true"> <td class="dn" valign="top" minmax_bound="true"> 1.</td> <td valign="top" minmax_bound="true"> a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

When D1 college football gets something, anything like that, then we'll have a national champion.  Until then, keep up the excuses.  They get more pitiful every year.

Here's the definition of the word "champion" which you so obviously don't understand

champion- a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions.

All-not just who you want to play.