The Schedule Police

Even though every other division in college football has a playoff to determine a champion, Division I keeps hiding its head in the sand and trumping up the Bowl System. So coming to the conclusion that a playoff is years away, there is something that the BCS can do to even out the playing field. The BCS should have certain rules in place that would help the voters determine how good a teams are. In the past couple of years, teams have started to figure out that scheduling is a huge part of the BCS formula. Why play tough opponents or road games in the non-conference portion of the schedule that can be controlled? The reason is so that the voters can get a better opinion on how good teams are. The BCS should institute "The Schedule Police". This body would ensure that in order for a team to play in the BCS Championship Game or in a BCS Game as an at-large team, it has followed 3 scheduling rules (conference automatic bids wouldn't have to follow these rules).

The Schedule Police 3 Rules:
1. Don't play any 1-AA (FCS) opponents - if you want to be one of the best teams in the country, you should play 12 FBS teams. No questions asked.
2. Don't play 8 home games - Hard to judge a team that plays 4 non-conference home games. Again, to be the best you should have to play more than 4 road games.
3. Play at least one non-conference game against a BCS Conference team - Voters need all the help they can get and playing 4 non-conference games against Sun Belt or WAC teams isn't helping them.

I would love to see these 3 rules instituted. It would be awesome just from the standpoint of how fans would react to a their teams schedule. A team that schedules a 1-AA team would be telling their fans "We don't think we are good enough to play for the Championship". It isn't asking much for teams to follow these 3 simple rules.

The following Top 15 teams would be eligible for the BCS Championship Game or an at-large bid using these 3 rules: 1. Alabama, 2. Texas, and 5. USC. That is it. The BCS needs to get involved in how teams schedule. Texas Tech, Florida State, and Georgia Tech played 2 1-AA schools this year. That is downright absurd. They shouldn't be rewarded for that. Florida State and LSU play 8 home games this year. That is a huge advantage that might be taken into factor by the voters should they be talking about playing for the BCS Championship Game, but it also helps the conference out tremendously because the voters most likely don't look at that when ranking the teams. If that means moving Florida State up 5-8 spots in the polls because they played 8 home games and 2 games against 1-AA schools, that is unfair to the other teams trying to get ranked. The BCS, if it is going to continue to exist, needs to make some changes and they need to start with forcing teams to schedule decent opponents.