Most years we hear complaints about a team from the MWC or WAC who has run through an undefeated season of cupcake triumphs and thinks it could win a NC.

Neither conference has a playoff - so if the champ of the conference season is Hawaii, Boise State, BYU, Utah, Air Force, TCU, Fresno State - whoever, we leave it up to voters to decide when there is often very little they can base their decision on. It's often a crap-shoot whether one of those teams will be an at-large or not.

My solution, provide a guaranteed BCS bid for a non-BCS team. How? Take the two highest ranked non-BCS teams and have a play-in game. So, for example, this year it would be two teams that will likely be in the top 15 by tomorrow, BYU vs Hawaii. Winner gets a BCS bid.

It's certainly possible to have Notre Dame or a MAC team or a Conference USA team involved in this mix as well, it doesn't have to be all about MWC and WAC, they're just the two that have had the biggest issues this year.

Thoughts?

By the way, I fully realize that even if consensus is that this is a brilliant idea, the NCAA isn't bright enough to implement brilliant ideas.

8 team playoff -

6 BCS Conference Champs (B10, SEC, ACC, P10, Big East, B12)
1 At Large
1 Non-BCS team

Woot!

This year - OSU, USC, LSU, WVU, Oklahoma, VTech, UGA, and Hawaii.

All problems solved.

Actually, I think that would be a pretty solid playoff. I'd definitely be watching. I'd want to see if Hawaii could really stack up.