This is a great video re-cap of the University of Montana v Appalachian State play-off game from last week-end. Yes, I said play-off game. I will use this awesome game as a platform to state that the BCS is the college football equivalent of socialized medicine - and the whole issue could be resolved if there was the political/moral will to do so.

Do a search of D1 play-off options and you will find a million plans, but here is mine:

A play-off starts with conference winners from all D1 conferences. This would be 11 teams. Each conference would be allowed to nominate an additional team from their conference. From this, a selection committee made up equally of conference participants, would a) select 5 additional teams from the nominated and b) seed the teams according to a formula similar to the current BCS formula, but without the influence of voter ranking. #1 would play #16 and so on. This method is almost identical to the March Madness process which works very well.

The play-off games would use the existing bowl structure, with each bowl given the opportunity to bid for a play-off game. This would open it up to all bowls - and probably increase the revenue of the teams and conferences playing in those bowls.

The bowls and teams outside of the play-off system would go with the similar structure of conference affiliation. Using the H-bowl here in Boise as an example, Idaho and Bowling Green wouldn't have been in the 16 game tournament, so the H-Bowl is free to select the best teams available based on bowl affiliations. If bowl can't create an affiliation between two conferences, it will just have to go away.

This system would require several things:
- Big conference Presidents and ADs to pull their heads out of their butts and realize that "tradition" is just a fancy word for obsolete and greed.
- Notre Dame to join a conference - probably the Big 10 (which actually has 11 teams) which is trying to expand anyway.
- Each conference must have a conference championship. Right now, the Big 10, Pac 10, andWAC don't.
- They could keep the polls if they want, but they would be like the Queen of England - for pageantry purposes only. Again, this is similar to lower divisions in football.

Everybody gets paid, some tradition remains and we get games like the video posted - and a true national championship decided on the field.

I don't see any flaws, so it must be perfect :)