Bobby Bowden will be back for his 34th season at Florida State. An agreement was reached for Coach Bowden to come back another year as head football coach; he will be paid right under $2.5 Million, which is the same amount he was paid last year. You can read more about this by clicking on the following link Another Year for Bowden
In my opinion, I think this will be Bowden’s last year. I do not look for Florida State to have a better year than this past year and over the last 8 years the program has become complacent. As much as I like the tradition Bobby Bowden has established not only at FSU but throughout College Football, the program will have to make a change that is for the long term best interest of the program.
The MWC is pushing for an automatic bid to a BCS bowl game. If approved, the MWC will become the 9th conference in to receive an automatic bid to the BCS.
Do you think the MWC deserves an automatic bid to the BCS? After this past season it seems like it would be no question the MWC deserves an automatic bid, but if you look at the conference as a whole you can argue that the quality of the conference is not BCS worthy.
After Utah, TCU and BYU there is not one team that can be taken serious. Air Force, Colorado St, UNLV, New Mexico, Wyoming, and San Diego St should not be in a conference that gets an automatic bid to the BCS. If the MWC becomes a BCS Conference do you see any team besides Utah, TCU or BYU making it to a BCS bowl? I don’t.
Instead of the MWC becoming a BCS Conference, those individual schools should push to be moved to an existing BCS Conference. Put Utah and BYU in the PAC 10, call it the PAC 12 and then the PAC 10 could adopt a conference structure that would allow them to play a conference championship game. Throw TCU in the Big 12, take Arkansas out of the SEC and put them in the Big 12 as well and the SEC could then replace Arkansas with Southern Miss or South Florida.
Our economy is in bad shape, we are at war, and we have more and more illegal immigrants entering into the United States everyday who are receiving free health care and free education paid for by the tax payers of this country. High school drop out rates across the nation continue to fall and the list goes on. So what are our elected officials in Washington D.C. doing? Well, they are trying to implement a playoff system in college football. Lawmakers Get Involved in the BCS
Don’t get me wrong, I am just as much of a college football fan as the biggest college football fans around, but why is government getting involved? Will a playoff system stimulate the economy? Will a playoff system in college football help the high school drop out rate?
The funny thing about this is, the lawmakers backing this are from the same states in which teams had a legit argument that they should have been in the national championship game.
The truth is there will never be a perfect way to decide the national championship in college football. College football would have completely restructure the way each conference decides its conference champions, in summary, each conference would have to model itself around the SEC and/or the Big 12. If conferences are able to govern themselves under a playoff system, then we will still have controversy over who should and should not get into the playoffs.
Some people are arguing that the NFL playoff system is flawed. This year for example, the San Diego Chargers, who won their division, finished 8-8. Winning their division put them into the playoffs, but the New England Patriots, who finished 11-5, missed out on the playoffs. So will congress get involved to prevent teams like an 11-5 New England team from not getting into the playoffs?
If government is going to get involved in college football over whether or not it needs a playoff system then what is next? What else will they try to control?
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