Re: BCS poll
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Not really. Eight team playoff. Use current BCS system and award a statistically-appropriate bonus to the conference champions. (Take THAT, ND.) The BCS bowls then become the quarterfinals. Semis and championships rotate between the bowls, or else occur at newly-designated permanent sites. Simple, elegant, makes infinitely more sense than what we do now.
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Playoffs add excitement, but don't really do much towards determining the best champion. Compare college basketball to college football - the best team is the national champion in CFB much more often than in CBB.
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I disagree with this. Yes, college football has the best team end up as the national champion more often than college basketball, but that has more to do with the nature of college basketball's playoffs than with the general idea of a playoff. In basketball, the talent difference between a 4 seed and a 1 seed is much smaller than between comparatively ranked football teams, so a single elimination tournament doesn't do much to determine who's best. That's why all other sports with similar differences in skill play best of 5/7 series. Even that's not enough, look at how little the best regular season baseball team wins the World Series. However, football is different. The best team win a very high percentage of the time, so a single elimination playoff has a good chance to end up with the best team in the country winning. Not mention, the regular season already serves as a defacto single elimination playoff, as one loss is usually enough to ruin your chances at the national title. A true single elimination playoff wouldn't do anything to change the status quo of one loss and you're done, but would allow teams with genuine claims to being the best (see, USC two years ago, LSU last year) a chance to decide things on the field.
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