I like the 4 team playoff idea....just not sure how it would fit into a 13 game schedule. I'm not sure how any playoff would fit into that schedule. You would think that players would need rest and depth charts for college are not even close to professionals in the NFL. Once you get to 3 and 4 spots they become kids that don't have much knowledge of the system or need more conditioning to help prevent injury. My advice is to just keep it like it is and maintain that the priority is education and not our entertainment.:BigA:I would love to see a playoff for the national championship.
Bama beat Texas on the field in the BCSNCG with the system in place to determine a champion. So, that makes Bama the national champion of the 2009 college football season. So, you guys did all you can do.
What I don't like about the current system is that you had 5 unbeatens going into bowl season. After the bowl games, we still have 2 undefeated teams. I would love nothing more than to see it played out in a playoff...granted, I believe Bama would beat Boise pretty handily.
I would be happy to see something as small as a 4 team playoff, that way you still need to try and win every regular season game in order to stay in the top 4 in rankings.
Just my $0.02 worth
Sometimes the minority is right. Actually, I'm not convinced you're in the minority... especially for the universe of fans of "major" schools. A playoff is an incredibly bad idea for SEC, Big 12, and kindred teams.
Hey, works for the 'barn! They could have claimed 6 National Championships in a row.Cause nobody believes in winning just whining,now I know why Coach don't care for reporters They don't deal in facts just hypothetical Ideas of their own. We have a hunger for everything but the truth Alabama beat Texas for the National Championship,maybe one day we can quit playing the game and debate it with sports writers,heck we all know they are smart enough to tell us who's the best!
Yea, this is the main impediment. The biggest conferences want to protect their own, because each knows that a team that goes undefeated or only loses one game an wins the conference has about a 90% chance of playing in the BCS championship in any given year. It's a valid argument in terms of the self-interest of conferences and their teams, but personally I don't think it's very American.
Possibly, but I doubt it. What I wish would happen is a reduction of the "regular-season" schedule back to 10 or 11 games. The 12th game in particular is total worthless money-vacuuming crud.
I doubt it. If there are 8 or 16 teams and the tournament is seeded like in BB, it won't be worth risking a high seed by pulling starters. This doesn't happen in BB. Teams play their best players all throughout conference tournaments even when they're practically ensured a #1 seed. The difference between a #1 and a #4 seed could be a first-round MAC opponent instead of a first-round Big 10 opponent.
It gets you in, but it doesn't get you a high seed. Just like in BB, being in a good conference means something and will guarantee easier early-round matchups.
People will always whine, but no one really cares about the team that missed out on the 16th seed. People most definitely care about undefeated teams that don't even get a shot at a championship. Can you remember the teams that just missed the NCAA BB tourney last year? I can't, but I could rattle off the many undefeated football teams in the last ten years who never got to play for anything.
They're meaningless with or without playoffs. The Liberty bowl would be played for exactly what it is played for now - a Liberty Bowl trophy that almost no one cares about.
Agreed...also, an earlier post in this thread suggested that the current system is not American inferring, I guess, that a playoff is American. Your example, however, points out the unamerican nature of a playoff in college football...Alabama works hard during the regular season, defeating several teams that would be in the playoff, while other teams get to use their "food stamps" to gain entry.
