College football is the only sport in which there is no playoff system in its postseason. Bowl games are at various sites around the country instead are played, in which two teams are rewarded for a winning season and play each other with festivities such as possibly a parade occur in the days before the game. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was established in 1998 to attempt to match up the best two teams in college football in the last bowl game of the year to solve college football's dilemma of not always having an undisputed national champion. Using a formula that combines poll ranking, toughest of schedule, computer rankings, and losses, the BCS, who consist of the "Big Six" conferences (ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 10, and SEC), has had controversial national title match ups. Because of the controversy there have been calls for a playoff system.
             The BCS Commisioners and its supporters have several reasons why they wish to keep the current system. Bowls have been apart of the sport of college football since the first bowl game took place on New Years Day 1894 when the University of Chicago played the University of Notre Dame. The sacred traditions of the sport are an integral part.
             The bowl games are unique only to college football with every other major American sport both collegiate and professional using a form of a playoff to determine
             a respective champion. Currently, with twenty-eight bowl games it allows fifty-six different teams, coaches, alumni, and its fans to go make a holiday trip to celebrate their
             season accomplishments. Teams just have to have a 6-5 record to qualify and the schools that aren't powerhouses can still have a successful season. Forty-six percent of the teams are involved in the postseason but with just a playoff system the number would drastically decrease to at least a near fourteen percent with sixteen teams figured to be the most to participate.
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