Don't Wait

Patience is by in large a good thing. Patience teaches your young sibling that the line does not move faster by yelling at it. Patience helps you keep a level head when your crush doesn’t text you back in .039486572 seconds.       

Yet in college football today, patience is meaningless. We don’t have to wait two years to get rid of the BCS when we are on the verge of another national champion controversy.

The four team playoff system that will restore the integrity of competition in college football will be implemented in 2014, not 2012. However, with Alabama, Kansas State, Oregon, and Notre Dame all 9-0 college football appears on the verge of another title snubbing season.

Here is a crazy idea that the FBS should consider, install the new format this season. Waiting for two years to install a system tailor made to solve the issue of today simply is stupid.

For the love of whatever deity you may or may not believe in, the new playoff is what the fans want.

College football fans want to see if the Irish can win a title for the first time since the Reagan administration. The fans who love the sport want to see if Optimums Kline (which by the way is one of the five best nicknames in sports today) can run against the vaunted defense of Alabama. And pundits across the sport want to see if anybody can stop Oregon, a team that seems to only recruit guys who can run the 40 yard dash in 4.35 seconds.

Suppose for a second all four teams go undefeated, then the computers will be left to determine who plays for a national championship and who gets hosed. And that is no way to determine who wins any sport.

Now the BCS could get lucky again. They faced a similar issue in 2002 when seven of the top ten teams in college football went undefeated through the first week of Nov. When that first weekend of Nov came around, four of the seven unbeaten teams lost. The controversy was settled when the last extra unbeaten fell and undefeated Miami played undefeated Ohio State in the ‘Willis McGahee-blew-out-his-knee’ national title game.

But we could get a collegiate catastrophe, again. It’s hard to forget when the Tigers of Auburn finished without a loss in 2004, but because of the computers, USC played Oklahoma for the national title. And an undefeated team did not even play for the right to call themselves champions.

The chances of more than two undefeated teams are slim, yet those who run college football should not even consider letting that happen again.

So put the four team playoff format in now, those in college football don’t have to be patient here.