Some people love the BCS system, others loathe it. Utah filed a lawsuit against the BCS in federal court even.
The guys at ESPN have already got on board and started their own scheme for revamping college ball here. Pat Forde has called for a total restructure of the system's 120 teams into a 40 team "Premier" league of sorts and an 80 team secondary league. I like the theory behind this and will definately follow the thought process and schemes they come up with over there.
Here at SASG I have another plan that I started developing in October of 2008.
As an avid rugby fan I follow the usual leagues in world rugby. There's the Guiness Premiership, Magner's League, Six Nations, Tri Nations and the World Cup. One thing I've always enjoyed about the tournaments is their points system.
In honor of my Rugby pal Raj we will call this the Kiwi System.
In rugby a team gets four points for winning the game and another bonus point if they score four or more tries. In a loss a team is still eligible for one point if the game was close and they only lost by one point.
To show how it work's we'll place two hypothetical teams together: Big State University versus Anytown College.
BSU wins one game 28-7 and earns four points for the win and the bonus point for getting four touchdowns. AC does not receive any points because the game was not lost by seven points or fewer and they did not get four or more touchdowns.
The theory with this scoring system is that regardless of wins and losses the best team will be the team that racks up the most points.
To determine a teams ranking in their conference the team with the highest points total during conference games would be first and for overall rankings the teams with the highest points totals would be first.
In the Big 12 last season all the talk come bowl time was who would play? Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech had identical records. They each had one loss. Oklahoma lost to Texas, Texas lost to Texas Tech and Texas Tech lost to Oklahoma.
Using the Kiwi System the conference points totals equal out to 37 points for Texas, 36 for Oklahoma and 35 for Texas Tech.
No strange Big 12 tie-breaker nonsense here, just simple cut and dry numbers and statistics.
The teams with the best scores are doing the best and will represent their conference in the bowl games.
Through August each conference's stats from last year will be tallied up and their respective place in the Kiwi System will be determined. The final result will see just how close the Kiwi System mirrored the actual season.
As SASG's first ongoing project the Kiwi System will be monitored and updated for the upcoming season as well.
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