The (broken) College Football Status Quo

There are 120 teams in D1-A (I'm not calling it FBS or whatever, no matter how much the NCAA wants us to). And teams like Utah, Boise State, and Tulane (way back when) have shown us that, no matter what they do, unless you're in a BCS conference, you have absolutely no chance of winning a National Championship. They've been thrown bones by the BCS to get into the money games, but as far as winning it all is concerned? Forget it.

So every season, 65 teams *can* win the National Championship, and 55 can't -- regardless of what they do on the field. Is there any other competition in which a team can NEVER win a championship, regardless of how they do? What if the NCAA told Gonzaga basketball (a very good team, despite under-achieving in the tournament every year) that because they were in the West Coast Conference, that they aren't eligible to EVER win it all? Wouldn't work.

Keep in mind, these are 65 relatively arbitrary teams, regardless of how deserving they are. Duke and Iowa State and Washington are included, but Boise State, Utah, BYU, and TCU are excluded.

Should they be able to win it all? Do they deserve to, or is a 1- or 2-loss BCS team more deserving based on the season-long grind of, say, the SEC vs. the WAC. That argument has been exhausted without a right answer. I hope to help solve that.

Couldn't find a way for all 120 teams to be eligible every year, but that's a bit unrealistic. But I think I have found a method for the best 60 programs to have dreams of playing for it all every year, and all 120 within 2 years. After all, shouldn't the 60 most deserving teams have the opportunity, instead of the best situated politically? I think so.