College Football Champion?

In most professional sports the best team is determined through a tournament or playoffs that match the best teams up and eventually whittle them down until only one remains; the champion. College football has never followed this formula and has opted instead to rely on polls, computers, and now the Bowl Championship Series. Since its inception, the BCS has often resulted in controversy and argument over who really is the National Champion. Many claim that this system is unfair to most teams, and the majority of conferences. Even the United States Congress has become involved to try and solve this problem.

The audience I wish to address this issue to is the BCS committee but still appealing to college football fans in general. The committee is the group that ultimately makes the decisions about who can be involved with the BCS bowls and crowning the “champion” so I feel that an appeal to them could potentially have the greatest effect. My relationship to the audience is as a fan of college football who feels the current system is ineffective and unequal. A few genres that would work to address them would be through an open letter to all college football fans, letters specifically to them, and blog posts about the issue.