re: Who else here wants the current bcs system to stay in place

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When did Cincy beat anyone in a BCS bowl. They got shelled last time they stepped on a field with a barely top 20 VT team in the Orange. Boise, really. Really. Who do they play. Hell Tech played a tougher schedule.

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Right. Non-BCS schools can't beat BCS schools.

ask all other divisions of college football and all other sports on earth.

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How many football leagues select 64, you are wanting what every other college sport does. Lets see, do you really want to see

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This may come as a shock to you, but there are playoffs out there that don't include 64 teams.

I may be in the minority, but I am OK with the BCS as it is. Hell, I liked the old conference tie-in system where it seemed like the Sugar, Rose, and Orange all had MNC implications riding on them in a single year. Made for an exciting Jan. 1st. If a playoff is put in place, I dont think it should be any more than 8 teams.

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Major team sports within the NCAA generally have 64.

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They didn't start with 64 teams, they expanded over the years. Basketball started with 8 teams. FCS has 16 teams today.

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I like the excitement of knowing if you lose, you are really close to done.

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We're going to disagree. Not many things beats March Madness or the NFL playoffs. The NCAA doesn't recognize a college football champion.

Im sorta neutral on the whole playoff thing because if a playoff started I wouldn't want Lsu in the sec. A playoff also would make bowl games seem even more insignificant.

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Not many things beats March Madness or the NFL playoffs.

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Except almost every week of college football

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More often than not, the two teams that should be playing for the title are indeed playing for the title. There were a couple of years where there was controversy ('03 and '04), but it beats the hell out of the old bowl system,

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Nobody's arguing for the old bowl system. The question is BCS vs. a playoff. Anything would be better than the old bowl system, but that says nothing about why the BCS is better than a playoff...well, actually a larger playoff, since the BCS is, technically, a playoff. You are arguing with a straw man here.

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A playoff would diminish the importance of the regular season. This is a fact. Don't even try to argue it.

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No, it's only a fact if the playoff field is too big or includes too many at-large teams. If you had only a four- or eight-team playoff, then it would be very risky to lose even one regular season game, as a team would face the strong possibility of finishing outside the top four or eight. Alternatively, if you gave an automatic berth to every conference champion and had no at-large berths, then every conference game would still have huge implications. It is entirely possible to preserve the importance of the regular season without ruining the sport by having no legitimate champion.

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In the current bowl system, all of the winners of the 32 or so bowls go home happy at the end of the season. In the playoffs, one team is happy at the end of the season. Only one.

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First of all, bullshite. You weren't happy at the end of the 2006 basketball season? The 2008 baseball season? Secondly, even if your point weren't complete bullshite, so the frick what? Who cares if North Texas is happy about winning the New Orleans Bowl? Finally, unless you have a 64-team playoff that wiped out every single bowl out there, which NOBODY is suggesting, you'd still have a bowl system which would include the teams who don't make the playoffs. The precious little snowflakes could still beat their chests after going 6-6 and winning the Independence Bowl.

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As many people have stated previously, even in a 16 team playoff, there will be 3-4 teams arguing that they should have had a shot at the playoffs,

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But a team that fails to make the top 8 or 16, or fails to win its conference title, has very little credibility arguing that it was the best team in the country. Remember, the point of a playoff is to make sure you get the BEST team in it (by including enough teams to practically insure it), while preserving the likelihood that the best team will win once it gets there (by not including too many teams, which would increase the chances of a random upset knocking off the best team). It doesn't matter whether the 14th best team gets left out of a 16-team playoff. It only matters whether the BEST team is left out of whatever playoff you have. With only two teams, it's very likely that the best team may be left out. With more teams, that likelihood decreases.

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The win-at-all-costs mentality would become even more pervasive throughout college football than it is now. With only one team happy at the end, remember... the pressure to win will be greater than ever. If you're a major college power who keeps finishing 2nd or 3rd in a playoff system, the temptation to cheat and the meddling of boosters with money will be off the charts. Coaches will be fired left and right.

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bullshite. There'd be no more pressure to win championships than there already is. And your point about only one team being happy has already been dismissed above. And coaches getting fired? Oh my God! Let's hope THAT never happens!

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Why would you trust a poll or committee to have any more integrity in choosing which teams get into the playoffs than the polls which determine who goes into the BCS?

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I wouldn't, but integrity isn't the only issue with polls and committees. It's hard to distinguish between teams that are very close together, and any committee or poll has a strong potential to get it wrong. That's why it's important that those close calls occur between the 7th, 8th and 9th or 15th, 16th and 17th best teams and not the 1st, 2nd and 3rd best teams, or that the process be completely out of the hands of polls and committees, for instance by just including all the conference champions.

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Realizing that academic standards and performance is already a joke, how much more of joke would it be when the playoffs drag college football's season well into January?

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First of all, there's no need to do that. Secondly, how is it that all other sports in college athletics, including all other divisions of football, find a way to do it?

I've seen a lot of arguments against a playoff, including all of the ones you made above. All of the ones you made have been long-since repudiated, and are amazingly unoriginal and poorly thought out.

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TV ratings would disagree with you.

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You've got to be joking, right? NCAA football is the second most popular sport. Right behind the NFL.

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Can't get any worse than playing USL, LaTech and Tulane in same year.

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Just imagine every team in the sec with a Usl Tulane and some div 2 school for ooc every year.