Every year sportswriters and fans complain about how unfair the BCS is, so what's preventing the various conferences from a playoff system?

- The bowls came first and have to be dislodged

- The bowl organizers control larges amounts of money. Some of these monies are given to participating universities and their conferences. Bowl organizers do not want to risk lossing this money. And universities who frequent bowls want to be assured of still receiving the big bucks before switching. Hence bowl organizers are generally against playoffs and univerisities are only luke warm supporters.

- Universities like to believe their players are really students (some actually are) and not semi-professional atheletes, so they limit the number of games per year. Playing a game takes a lot of the players time preparing and practicing. Also due the physical nature of the game, players need several days to recovery. This limits games to about one every 5 days or so (about one a week). A playoff system would require the two teams meeting for the championship to play and additional 2-4 games depending on the number of teams allowed to participate in the playoffs.

Does it solve ALL the BCS issues today? I dunno, maybe, maybe it won't... I just know if it's YOUR team going to the National Title Game or one of the other 4 big bowl games and wins... no one complains. Report It

Money. that's the bottom line. division 1A is the only division that doesn't have a playoff system. college presidents claim that academics is the issue because playoffs may mean increasing the number of games played, yet they have no problems adding one or two games a year to their schedule.

The college presidents and the NCAA love the current system because it rakes in more CA$H.