Blitz Podcast: What would 2020 college football look like if BCS still existed?
By Zach Bigalke
It has now been seven seasons since the BCS last ruled over college football. In this week’s podcast, we wonder how 2020 would play out under a BCS formula.
Most people absolutely hated the Bowl Championship Series. Maybe it was the fact that only two teams got to play for the national title each year. Perhaps some people just really hated the computers that were baked into the BCS formula. Who knows, some surely just preferred the mythical nature of a bowl season that rendered New Year’s Day as the culmination of a season.
Whatever the reason, few if any actually liked the BCS in its entirety. After six years of watching the College Football Playoff selection committee pick their top four behind closed doors, with only retroactive explanations for their selections, a little more transparency might honestly be nice. For all the flaws of the BCS, a person could at least project how it was going to look from week to week with a simple spreadsheet and a few rudimentary formulas.
That spirit drives this week’s conversation in the Saturday Blitz Podcast. In the opening segment, we wax nostalgic about the BCS days and imagine how the BCS rankings would deal with a wacky 2020 season that puts even 2007 to shame for the sheer level of chaos. In a week where more and more football games are being canceled even since this podcast was recorded, things just keep getting weirder and riskier.
After the BCS discussion and a short break, we return for our weekly look at five key games and offer up our picks against the spread. Amazingly this week, none are from the SEC after the league is up to three games postponed — including an Alabama-LSU showdown that lost a lot of luster long before COVID-19 caught up once again with the Tigers.
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