re: All this playoff vs. bowl crap needs to be done with....

I don't really like any other conference than the SEC but I will say this in response to Texas having a weaker schedule that TCU. Texas may not have a stronger schedule on paper but they play a Big 12 schedule just like LSU plays an SEC schedule. Overall both conferences are far better than those in the Mountain West and the WAC. Go undefeated in in the SEC and the Big 12 no matter how many close games, thats respect earned.

All we really need is a plus one format.

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Div IA (FBS) is the only division at ANY level that doesn't have a playoff system. I guess every other level is wrong.

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And it is the only division at any level of every single sport, college or pro, that doesn't have a playoff. And that's fricked up. LSU could probably make some noise in a playoff this year, and some of you hacks are happy about a consolation prize? Penn State in the Capital One bowl? And the winner doesn't get shite except for bragging rights that they beat another team for no reason or title or anything whatsoever?

Yay!!!

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This is college football...kids trying to make something of theirselves in either a professional sport or earn a degree. Its gone to far with all this complaining about fairness. I like the system the way it is. You can't compare this to the NFL, 30 teams compared to a 3 maybe 4 times that many.

Let these kids go out there and play in their bowl games and be proud to finish out their seasons on a good note. Think about them and how they want to finish up their college careers, not what you wanna see as you sit back and watch it on TV. I can see putting a playoff in college football will just add to more and more issues and once you make a change like that, you just can't undo it. Those bowl sponsors won't just jump back on board like nothing happened.

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Sorry, Rowanspadre, but I don't follow your logic at all. There is absolutely no reason we cannot have a playoff in college football -- by your logic college baseball players and basketball players (who participate in many more games than football players, by the way), can't make something of themselves or finish on a good note. Right.

Also, Tennis, Track, Swimming, Diving, Softball and other sports have meets with some kind of championship scheme at season's end based on their actual performance, not some writer voting on, or computer determining, who the champion should be.

Little leagues have a playoff.

And finally, the world's sport - soccer -- has a playoff.

College football is the only anomoly.

Do you honestly believe the student athletes of TCU and Cincinatti are getting an equal opportunity in the bowl system?

So you think playing back to back in baseball and basketball is the same as football. You and the rest of your playoff gangs don't see the big picture. These teams get anywhere between 2 weeks to a month to get ready for the bowl game. You think adding 3 extra games to a team wouldn't hurt them. Let me see you balance a college football and classes that long and stay injury free. Eventually it'll happen and I know this...but I can't wait to watch all of yall bitch about it when it doesn't work out the way you thought it would. Just like it took and Ole Miss loss for you Les Miles lovers to remove your lips from his arse and realize what he really is...buts thats for another rant.

Rowanspadre, I don't understand your argument at all. I could see if nobody currently had a playoff, and we were proposing we become the first to see if it works. But a playoff is already in place at every level of the NCAA and NAIA. How do basketball players balance classes during March Madness? Are classes cancelled during the Regionals, Super-Regionals, and College World Series for baseball? Although your concern for our student-athletes is honorable, it is not a good argument for why we can't have a playoff.

As far as games played in a season, Navy is playing fourteen games this year. Is it unrealistic to think that a college athlete has more expectations than a student at the US Naval Academy? None of these reasons make sense to me.

...ridiculous argument...

what kind of post is this?...I disagree...football is a sport...there are winners and losers...there are no hurt feelings in football...wtf...when did we become such a bunch of pussies...play it out and decide on the field who is a loser and winner...this shite of giving everyone a trophy because we want everyone to feel like a winner is bs...we need a playoff system so everyone has a fair chance..these bowls are absolutely meaningless unless your playing for the title..i honestly couldn't give less of a crap if lsu wins new years day or not...cause it doesn't mean anything...im just going to have fun...

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So you think playing back to back in baseball and basketball is the same as football. You and the rest of your playoff gangs don't see the big picture. These teams get anywhere between 2 weeks to a month to get ready for the bowl game. You think adding 3 extra games to a team wouldn't hurt them. Let me see you balance a college football and classes that long and stay injury free.

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Somehow smaller division schools manage it.

You could limit the number of games during the year to 11 and have the season finished by the weekend after Thanksgiving. The bowl season already goes from Dec 20 to Jan 7th -- so, have the first game on Dec 19th, second game on Dec 26th, take a week off and play the championship on Jan 10th. Not difficult at all. These guys are practicing during that time anyway.