The True National Championship Game

A week from tomorrow, Oregon will face off with Auburn for the BCS National Championship trophy. The winner will claim that they are the best team in college football and considering that they are currently the two top ranked teams in the sport, there will be little argument that they are the best the game has to offer in 2010. The problem - and this has been written and talked about millions of times - is that the BCS system is not perfect. The Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division 1-A) is the only NCAA sport that does not crown a true national champion. Unlike college baskeball, which stages "March Madness" (the most exciting championship playoff in all of sports), the FBS uses a complex ranking system to determine who plays for the championship. TheBostonInsider has mentioned a playoff system in the past but for this year, there is already a perfect solution. Texas Christian University, a Dallas area school, defeated Wisconsin yesterday in the Rose Bowl to finish their season at 13-0. Imagine that, a team finishes the year undefeated and untied but does not get a shot at the national championship. It is unheard of in college sports. The solution for this year is for Dallas billionaires Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban to promote a game between T.C.U. and the Oregon-Auburn winner. The game would be played at Dallas Cowboys Stadium on January 30 (a week before the Cowboys host Super Bowl XLV) and the winner would be able to lay claim to being the true national champion. Jones and Cuban would be able to make the game worth while financially to both teams - the winning school would take home $25 million and the losing school would earn $15 million. The advertising sold would easily pay for the schools to play in the game and the spectacle of a true national championship game would put pressure on the NCAA to create a true playoff system that would annually provide a true national champion in major college football.