College Football

College football has an unbelievable regular season, you can't compare it to any other sport, even the NFL,in terms of each game mattering so much. During most years if you lose only one little game you are out of the running for the title. However that amazing regular season where each game is unbelievably meaningful leads to the absolute worst postseason system basically anyone can create.

I'm not going to say that baseball scheduling is fair when some of the interleague rivals (Mets/Yankees) create unfair schedules, but nothing compares to College Football. By creating your own schedule you can put up Heisman numbers against weak competition (Florida played The Citadel?) that will help garner you some votes, if you play in a bad conference it hurts you (USC-can't afford to lose a game), or if you play in a great Conference like the SEC the teams could just beat themselves up. This uneven scheduling affects the postseason because it's system partially relies on votes, mostly biased ones. For example, Texas beat Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and lost to Texas Tech literally in the last second, yet they rank behind Oklahoma in the Coaches poll who haven't even faced all of the tough Big 12 teams like Oklahoma State yet. What's to stop Texas Tech's coach Mike Leach for voting Oklahoma higher than Texas because his team lost to Oklahoma? Nothing. CFB is actually lucky they have a computer system to fix the some of the voting polls mistakes, by ranking Texas over Oklahoma. Baseball scheduling isn't perfect or fair, but their playoff system usually makes up for it in the end. It's no surprise that college football needs a playoff system (the BCS isn't perfect but it's pretty good and a playoff system would fix it's mistakes) and no surprise that baseball is dare I say obviously better, but could you imagine NL East coaches voting the Mets in over the NL West leader because their division is so bad they don't deserve a spot? Wait, that suddenly doesn't sound so bad.