re: What is your opinion about the Playoffs?

I think it will expand to 8 teams once it becomes clear what the level of fan interest is in the playoff games vs. interest in the other bowl games.

More teams in the playoffs also means that we will get more good regular season games because teams will want to test themselves against better schools while still realizing that a loss early on won't eliminate them from competing for the national title.

A general, directed comment at this entire playoff idea and it may sound like blasphemy and heresy to the true believers. But here goes - back in Jurassic dinosaur times, college football's greatest prizes were the big bowls - and they were Sugar, Rose, Orange, Cotton. And they were always on New Year's Day (or night with Orange). Fiesta came a little bit later, during the Ice Age. Oh, and there were a few other bowls of note - on days other than New Year's Day - the Gator, Bluebonnet, Sun, Liberty, Peach and maybe one or two others. None of them carried corporate names. No one of them was considered "the" championship game. The AP/UPI polls that followed the bowls were the deciding factor in who was the mythical national champion. The bowls were by invite only, no conference quotas. Was it perfect? No. Were some people bent out of shape by not getting a big bowl? Sometimes. Were people willing to live in the ambiguity of the real MNC? Yes, because all during the year it made for spirited and fun conversations among football fans as to who was "really" the best. Teams and players could become legendary.

It was the best of times, not the worst of times. But in our efforts to iron out any and every possible glitch in things - first with BCS and then with this playoff thing, I'm pretty sure we are ushering in the worst of times for college football. And me for one, I'd like to go back to the dinosaur/Ice Age times and chuck the playoffs, BCS, and all. It was more fun.

The playoff will be a joke. It will be whoever ESPN wants in the playoff. To think otherwise is silly.

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that's idiotic.

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I take it you disagee. I wonder if you could dial down the inflamatory rhetoric. Don't you see how much of a non-starter such a needless remark presents to any potential sharing of ideas? I don't care if you disagree. It does matter how disagreement is presented.

From what you said I can surmise you have little first hand experience with the old bowl system, probably too young to really remember the excitement it generated. That's ok.

Also you don't get to make a statement like "a playoff is universally recognized as best way to determine a champion" because that in inherently untrue. Universal implies "everyone" and my dissent alone disproves your faulty premise. It's like saying it's best "just because" they say so. They?

the basketball committee chooses 64 teams not four there is no room in four for the non favorite teams to sneak in!