Why The BCS can't be fixed

Despite our success this year, I don't think anyone is arguing that the BCS works. Even the much-anticipated "Plus-One" system would not have fixed this post season.

Rather than link you too another hair-brained playoff system someone put together on the back of a napkin while watching the GMAC bowl, I instead point to this article by the great Spencer Hall (of EDSBS.com fame) which point out why D-1A will not have a playoff system, at least until the contracts run out...

"All of the Southeastern Conference's television contracts -- with ESPN, ESPN2, Lincoln Financial Sports and the 12-year megadeal with CBS -- expire by spring 2009. This means a firefight over the rights to televise games in college football's most profitable conference.

The SEC also could launch its own television network in the next year or so.

If the "Speed Equals Cash" conference does launch its own TV channel, expect the Big Ten Network to be its model. SEC commissioner Mike Slive asserted earlier this year that his league would not abandon a primary network affiliation but instead would see how negotiations went and then proceed. This essentially is the Big Ten model: Big games go on ABC/ESPN with others broadcast exclusively on the conference channel."