I posted a blog last year about what I didn't like about the BcS and I came up with a proposal for how a playoff system could be implemented while still using the four major bowls. I am using a little bit of that blog to help me make my points for a playoff scenario this year.
One of my longest running pet peeves is that division 1 (or whatever they are calling it now) college football does not have a playoff. Games and seasons are meant to have winners and losers. And I can't think of another team sport that does not have a playoff.
My main problem with the system we have now is that teams like TCU and Boise State do no thave a chance to win the championship. And I believe that every season there are teams who should have a chance. My main problem with the system we have now is that teams lie TCU and Boise State do no thave a chance to win the championship. And I believe that every season there are teams who should have a chance.
There are two reasons I have heard of for why there are no playoffs. The first being that the kids would miss too much school. Which makes sense, except for one thing,: all of the smaller divisions in college football has playoffs. That has never made sense to me. Are they trying to say that class attendance is more important at the bigger schools?
The second excuse I have heard is that having a playoffs would make the season too long. And I have also heard that the University Presidents don't want change the current bowl system because it makes too much money.
I think that I have a solution that would make most everyone who follows college football happy.
First of all, I don't think that just adding playoff games to the end of the season is the answer. I think you should start by shortening the regular season. It seems to me that the out of conference games that teams are usually paying against are very inferior teams. Getting rid of those games would not only shorten the season (by about 3 games) but would make more competitive balance.
At the end of the season the top eight teams should go into the playoffs. All other bowl eligible teams can still go to lesser bowl games as a reward for a good season. The big four bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta) could host the first round of the playoffs. Since all four of those games are affiliated with conferences those tie ins should, and I think can for the most part, be maintained.
I copied and pasted all the previous paragraphs from lasts years draft to help show where my thinking was. Then I looked at the final rankings from the AP poll (which I guess is now FBS), the coaches poll and the BcS rankings.
As I first started to really look at and compare the differences; I realized I should have looked at them before I wrote the BcS hates Boise posting. At a second review of the each poll/ranking I was shocked to find that the BcS was not the worst of the the polls. The AP\FBS had Southern California at #5??? I might understand USC in the top ten (might) but #5 no way.
So this year I am throwing the AP/FBS out of the equation. I have little respect for that ranking and since is my blog, I can to that.
Between the BcS and the coaches poll the only major difference was that the BcS had Arkansas and the Coaches poll had Wisconsin. Since there are all ready two other SEC teams in the top ten I am throwing Arkansas out of the equation. And I have tweaked the polls basically because I didn't want the Rose bowl to be all Pac 12.
So the first round of my 2011 playoffs would include these games.
Sugar Bowl-- #1 LSU vs #8 Wisconsin
Orange Bowl -- #2 Alabama vs #7 Boise St.
Fiesta Bowl-- #3 Oklahoma St. vs #6 Stanford
Rose Bowl-- #4Oregon vs #5 Kansas St.
Personally I like the idea of those four games better than the games that will happen this year.
I would have the final two rounds in Jerry's World...er... Cowboy Stadium over a two week period. With the highest seed playing the lowest for the second round.
I think my idea would be more competitive than what the BcS is going to have this year and would still make college football a boatload of money.
What do you think?
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