re: LSU should play Boise St. in 2011

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This is what's wrong with college football. All it does is keep the money in the same hands, and prevents us from seeing really interesting matchups. It's boring to see the same SEC teams play each other every year. It's ironic everyone will bitch that Boise doesn't play anybody, when these so-called "big teams" won't often play them as it is. Take a look at Alabama and how they have NO urge to play Tech at all. We have a winning record over them and slapped them twice in a row last time, so they have this weak "nothing to gain" attitude toward us. We need a playoff, because this BCS bullshite is ruining college football. With a playoff, LSU wouldn't be scared to play Boise.

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I can't agree with much of anything you wrote.

College football has more equality and profits available to more teams now than they have had in the past. Granted the SEC is doing better than any other conference on a bottom line - but with more television, scholarship limits, and BCS profit sharing (including conditions to let in midmajors that would have NEVER been able to get a bid to a bowl like the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, or Orange before)... things are much better for the little guy now than they have been

I really don't see why people claim the BCS is ruining college football... all the BCS does is make sure two of the top teams will play in a championship game (instead of potentially having the top two-three teams all in different bowl games).

The idea that a playoff would fix this is fairly hard to agree with anyway... if the playoff were based on mostly major conference champs and say two at large teams then it reduces some of the reward for playing a premier ooc opponent IMO (whereas in some years playing a really good ooc opponent can benefit a championship team very much - e.g. OU - 04, USC - 04, Texas - 05, LSU - 07).

And if the playoff were based on pure rankings like it is now you still have the same behavior where if anything teams probably have even less incentive to take any risks out of conference if they are in a decent conference (although they would probably want 1-2 quality ooc games if they were from a midmajor or big east) - because as boise showed this year with one quality showing you can get into the discussion for a major bowl bid

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With a playoff, LSU wouldn't be scared to play Boise.

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So you admit that a playoff yields more meaningless games.

The repercussions of a loss make the BCS the best and make the ENTIRE year fun.