One of America’s favorite past times just got a little better in the last few years. Ever since the exclusion of the BCS, or the Bowl Championship Series, college football established a playoff championship series to decide a national champion. This new and interesting championship method started in 2014, with top four teams in the nation, Alabama, Oregon, Florida State, and Ohio State, squaring off in the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl to determine who would challenge each other in the National Championship in Arlington, Texas. Sugar Bowl champion Ohio State made history by defeating Rose Bowl winner Oregon in the first ever National Championship. But, this championship series started to raise some eyebrows and evoke some questions. Some think adding the playoffs to college football begin to make it more like a professional football career and less like student athletes enjoying some sports after classes. Is college football starting to look like an occupation, rather than a form of amusement? Will it push students more by adding more games to the season? Although the playoffs further shifted student athletes to become professionals, the College Football Playoffs have improved the sport substantially by including more teams to have a chance in earning the number one spot.
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Fans obviously show their support toward having this system by the numbers of attendance at past games. A larger variety of teams appear in the top rankings now that the scoring arrangement is different, verses the same old teams making the championship repeatedly. Should the College Football Playoffs replace the BCS? With the numbers and studies taken, it seems the answer presents itself: the Playoffs should have began when fans were supporting it before the BCS started so the Bowl Championship Series never existed. It might have lasted longer and changed the course of college football
Sure, the Playoffs turned …show more content…
Fans obviously show their support toward having this system by the numbers of attendance at past games. A larger variety of teams appear in the top rankings now that the scoring arrangement is different, verses the same old teams making the championship repeatedly. Should the College Football Playoffs replace the BCS? With the numbers and studies taken, it seems the answer presents itself: the Playoffs should have began when fans were supporting it before the BCS started so the Bowl Championship Series never existed. It might have lasted longer and changed the course of college football