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

The "missing class" argument is bunk. I like the BCS just fine, but not because I think a playoff is impossible to do.

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I don't like the playoff idea and I never will.

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Why wouldn't you like the playoff idea when the two teams that are picked to play for the National Championship are determined by polls which in the AP it's mostly biased. The sports writers on the west coast will vote for USC whether they have 4 loses or not. The coaches poll is probably voted by the coaches assistant and the coach never actually knows who he voted for. Head Coaches never have time to watch the other teams play anyway, so why should their vote count when it's not even their vote to begin with? Then you have the computer polls which are total BS, especially when the "Strength of Schedule" is not even in the equasion anymore.

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If you do a 8 team playoff, the number 9 will be pissed.

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Not true if the all the teams were set up properly in conferences and you totally do away with the stupid human polls and computer polls. There are 120 Division I Teams. Bottom line, you could have 12 football conferences with 10 teams in each conference. The 12 conferences should be divided into two groups (5 teams each) with the winner of each group(East vs West or North vs South) playing for the conference title. Then the winner of each of the 12 conferences go head to head in a playoff system to determine the National Champion. If a team doesn't win their conference, then how could they get pissed if they were left out of the playoffs? They couldn't because they weren't good enough to win the conference and didn't deserve to play for the NC.

College football should be on an even keel for every team. Is it really fair for an ACC or SEC team to play an extra conference championship game if the PAC 10 or Big 10 doesn’t? No. Is it fair that Boise State, Cincy and TCU are undefeated when none of those 3 teams played not one game with a team from one of the two strongest conferences (Big 12 or SEC)? No.

All I'm saying is that everything is not "equal" in college football and it needs and overhaul. It's not "fair" when team like Penn State has only 2 loses to now #8 Ohio State and now #10 Iowa and get's left out of a BCS bowl when they deserve to be there. Now if the Big 10 was divided into East and West and Ohio State (West) had to play Penn State (East) in a Big 10 championship game and Penn State was the winner of the conference outright, then Penn State would be in the Rose Bowl instead of Ohio State. Or if a playoff system was in place, Penn State would represent their conference.

I know it's not a perfect world, but the current college football system could be "fixed" without the governments intervention if all the conferences would get together and reorganize conference structures and implement a playoff system.

Rant Over.

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you could argue tcu's schedule was harder then Texas's this year. Texas only big wins were against okie state and Nebraska while Tcu beat Byu, Utah, and Clemson.

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Texas opponents' record: 83-74 (.529)
Texas Christian opponents' record: 63-70 (.474)

Sure, Texas' best opponents are 9-4 and 9-3 instead of 10-2, 9-3, and 8-5... but TCU has also played a 7-4 IAA team, two 3-9 teams, a 4-8 team, and a 1-11 team. Most notably, half of TCU's opponents have winning records (and only 5 in IA).

Meanwhile, two-thirds of Texas' opponents were .500 or better.

Texas played a tougher schedule, and it's not even close.

There's also men's basketball and baseball, y'know.

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yeah, college football should decide its champion like sports such as gymnastics and ice figure skating, great idea

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What's the general score for a touchdown?

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I know it's not a perfect world, but the current college football system could be "fixed" without the governments intervention

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Yeah, by going back to the way it was before they tried to "fix" it by giving us the BCS.

Stop trying to fix things that aren't broken.

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. 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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teams manage to do it fine, and how would it interfere with school?

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the BCS was a step forward...this would be another one

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The BCS was a step towards a playoff. It's been a gigantic failure. Why would you want to continue in that direction?

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It's been a gigantic failure.

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i completely disagree. There wasn't even a national championship before this.

What would the bowls be if it weren't for the BCS? Would Bama be playing Texas?

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The BCS was a step towards a playoff. It's been a gigantic failure. Why would you want to continue in that direction?

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So, your proposal is to go back to the old bowls and hope for the best?

Under your scenario, #1 and #2 would be playing in completely different bowls, thus leaving the potential for them both to be undefeated at season's end.

The fact that the BCS gets the top 2 playing each other, guaranteed, is a good thing. Problem is, in many years, other teams can legitimately state that they should be considered.