The pathetic ACC

Why is the Atlantic Coast Conference a part of the BCS? The football teams in this conference haven’t won a BCS bowl game since 1999, and to start off this season, was 2-4 against FBS opponents this past weekend. The most glaring was #9 Clemson getting trounced by #24 Alabama (score: 34-10), a team that many believe will finish either third or fourth in the SEC’s West Division. If this is the ACC’s best team (who benefited from a series of getting great recruiting classes), a so-called traditional powerhouse, why does the ACC still get an automatic bid to a BCS bowl berth? At the level that the ACC is performing, it is clearly the worst among the BCS conferences, and is even far below the Mountain West Conference and about on par with Conference USA. Although it is clear that the ACC doesn’t deserve it's BCS berth, it will get it this year at the expense of more deserving schools like Utah and East Carolina (a school who beat the ACC’s other pre-season favorite, #17 Virginia Tech 27-22). By the way, for gee-whiz information, the Mountain West and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) are a combined 2-1 in BCS bowl games since 2004. It’s about time that teams from the West (and elsewhere) get some love from the BCS, as far better access to bowl games and possible chances at playing for a national championship.

The introduction of BCS Equality

Welcome to my blog, BCS Equality. The purpose of the blog is to promote Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formally NCAA Division 1-A) universities that are not a part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). I believe that the so-called "non-BCS" teams aren't given a fair chance in competing for national titles and any other advantages that are enjoyed by schools that compete in the six BCS conferences, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), The Big East, The Big Ten, The Big 12 and the Pacific 10 (Pac-10). With the financial stakes involved in big time college football, not having an equal playing field within the FBS puts non-BCS schools at a huge disadvantage when it comes to recruiting, athletic facilities, operating expenses and overall exposure. I hope that this blog can provide a forum for making the argument that it's time to level the playing field by giving all the FBS colleges access to the riches of big-time college football.