re: So You Want A College Football Playoff?

Just you, chief. Most people are for a playoff.

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So You Want A College Football Playoff?

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no

Eh...ever heard of March Madness?

An 8 team playoff is the way to go...with conference champs only and homefield advantage. Plenty of incentive in that format.

Playoffs would ruin the regular season??? What a joke!

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Just you, chief. Most people are for a playoff.

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actually, most people are just lemmings who swallowed all the tripe they heard on ESPN and on sports talk radio over the last ten or so years.

i recall reading an article in athlon's or lindy's preseason magazine around 1982-83 about a few coaches supporting a playoff. at the time, as an 11 YEAR OLD, i thought, wow a playoff would be cool.

the idea really kinda died for a while until the mid 90s when through talk radio and espn it picked up a lot of steam.

it got to the point 4-5 years ago where there was not a single voice that opposed to the playoff. but now, as evidenced by musterburger and herbstreet on the abc postgame last week, more and more are starting to say 'not so fast' to a playoff.

in all honesty, them doing it is probably borne out of the same desire to get people talking about the controversy as the whole playoff system thing was done in the first place.

i consider myself a pretty big football fan. but in all honesty sometimes when i watch the saints i am more concerned with the game being close so i can get points on my 'fantasy' team than i am with the saints winning. heck, the team can lose six games and still make the playoffs.

as someone else said, he can only think of one saints game that 'mattered' in the last 40 or so years. i vaguely remember that the saints beat tampa in 87 to clinch their first playoff berth, but other than that few if any NFL regular season games are memorable.

i started watching college football last saturday at 1130 am and didn't stop until past 1 am. i really cared about oregon state vs. washington cause it meant something.

there are SOOOOO many reasons why a larger college football playoff won't exactly work...i say larger cause we have a two-team playoff already. but the fact is, it isn't NEEDED. college football is the greatest sport in the country. period.

The BCS is the greatest thing to ever happen to football, and it's not even close.

The Big 10 and Pac 10 voted against a playoff.

They have it in their contract that they get to have the Rose Bowl for their champs , so no one can touch that piece.
It pays the most. its about money.

If you had the current bowls plugged into the playoff system, it would work for all the rest of the bowls, but not the Rose Bowl.

I dont see the comment that it would wreck the regular season.

If you have an 8 team playoff, nothing much has to change.
the four GAMES would play in current bowls. Then the 4 semi finalists would play in Jerry World and Indy or Mich bowl. Then the champ game would happen. That's 7 big bowls.
That gets JerryWorld-Cotton back into the big bowl rotation, along with Sugar, Fiesta, Rose, Orange and how about Georgia Dome and Indy dome and the pizza dome or whatever they call the Michigan dome. That's 8 big venues for 7 games.

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I think the only way to squash the BCS is to have Boise st. (the american media darling) make it to the title game and getting absolutely hammered by Bama, Oklahoma, Oregon, etc

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Actually i think this would do the BCS good in the long term...we wouldn't hear about the mid majors in the BCS conversation for quite a while.

A Boise/TCU BCSNCG would be a ratings disaster and would likely bring drastic change

Yes. Plus, I think the current system actually crowns s better champion than many playoff- based systems do. Does the best team win March Madness? I'd say not. The current BCS that takes into account the body of work of the whole season is better IMO.

Now in an ideal world I'd have no polls of any type until week 5. Then do like is done now except expand the BCS championship to a 4 team deal. 1v4 and 2v3. Then a final game. So I guess I do favor a playoff of sorts. But any more than 4 teams ruins it.

An 8 team playoff is the way to go. All 8 chosen by the BCS formula. This conference champs bullshite does not fly. Is there a team in the Big East this year that deserves to make a playoff? Hell no. Top 8 regardless of conference. IMO the SEC has had the two best teams in the nation at least 7 out of the last 10 years. Letting just the conference champs and 2 mid major at large teams in would be absurd.