re: College football fans should not accept this crap they are forcing on us.

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We wanted a playoff. Now we got a playoff Maybe you want the old system back where top teams avoided each other this time of year

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“We” didn’t all want a playoff.

I remember the old system where bowl bids were handed out as early as late October. I remember BYU playing a middling Michigan team in the Holiday Bowl for a “National Championship”. I remember the Bowl Alliance and 2-3 other iterations until college football finally got it right with the BCS.

Taking Oklahoma over UsC in 03 was a flaw in the system. But Alabama going in 2011 over Oklahoma State was outright manipulation, and it was done intentionally to bring about the playoffs. At that point, it because all about money and no longer the sport.