Saban on the BCS

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) has taken its share of criticism, which has led to talk about college football playoffs. Without going into specifics, as with most things, follow the money and who profits. It isn't the football players who risk additional damage to their bodies for those extra weeks and it isn't the college football fans.

Tommy Deas at TideSports writes that Nick Saban, the University of Alabama's head coach, favors a plus one-system, in which the winners of two BCS bowls advance to a title game.

“If there is anything that I dislike about the whole system now, and I have always been a bowl guy, I’ve always been a guy that lots [sic] of positive reinforcement for a lot of players who get the opportunity to play in a bowl game for their efforts. If there is anything that has created a negative situation in college football, to me, it’s the fact that there is only one thing that matters and that’s who wins the national championship.

“I don’t think that’s fair to all the other good teams in college football, or all the other players who play in college football. It’s a pretty significant accomplishment to win the SEC. It’s a pretty significant accomplishment to win the ACC.”

Achieving an undefeated season in the SEC then going to a major bowl game, such as the Sugar Bowl, after years of barely making it to Shreveport or Nashville, should not be considered a consolation prize.  I've been an Alabama fan for a long time and we've expected a national championship every year, long before the BCS.  The BCS only whets the palate of the rabid fan even more.  Yet, I believe playoffs will ruin college football as we know it.