The committee has come out with their college football playoff (CFP) selections, and really for the first time during the short history of the CFP, they are met with massive controversy because undefeated Florida State was locked out. This is the first time that an undefeated team with a Power 5 conference championship has not been selected for the college football playoff. But the truth is this controversy only exposes that college football has always been a big broken mess.
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was the system that preceded the CFP. It used computers to rank and decide on two teams to compete for a national championship. At the time this was seen as a huge step forward because for a hundred years college football fans had wanted to see some kind of real championship grand final like the Super Bowl. Colleges would claim championships based on rankings and opinion polls. At least with BCS, there would be one champion and we’d all agree on who it was.
But the BCS system was rife with controversy. The beginning of the end for BCS was when USC was blocked out by the computers in 2003. They should have been selected to play LSU since Oklahoma had been destroyed in their conference championship game, but the BCS bat computer said otherwise. LSU went on to win the championship game and USC beat #4 Michigan in the Rose Bowl creating essentially a split championship which the system was supposed to prevent.
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