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10-20-2005, 02:46 PM
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Re: A Playoff Solution For College Football
The bowls suck. Either eliminate them and come up with a real playoff (min 12 teams) like every other sport in the modern civilized world, or keep the crappy system in place. Seriously, if they eliminated the bowls in 15 years everyone would look back and laugh at the lunacy that used to exist.
There actually really only has to be some very minor tweaking to the system to make everyone happy. Institute the following rule: -Play according to the previous bowl system prior to BCS -National Championship is played two weekends after New Year's Day between teams #1 and 2 at a neutral site. Eureka! 
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10-20-2005, 02:48 PM
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Re: A Playoff Solution For College Football
And how do the schools who make $ in the current system make $ in yours?
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10-20-2005, 04:05 PM
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Re: A Playoff Solution For College Football
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And how do the schools who make $ in the current system make $ in yours? [/ QUOTE ] Beat me to it. This is the prime problem well over and above logistics. Even though logistics is a very valid problem. b
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10-25-2005, 02:26 PM
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Re: A Playoff Solution For College Football
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[ QUOTE ] And how do the schools who make $ in the current system make $ in yours? [/ QUOTE ] Beat me to it. This is the prime problem well over and above logistics. Even though logistics is a very valid problem. b [/ QUOTE ] no it isn't. see D-1AA, D-2, and D-3 CFB.
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10-20-2005, 05:20 PM
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And how do the schools who make $ in the current system make $ in yours? [/ QUOTE ] The same way. The only difference is that they would make more money because the networks would bid up the price to a higher degree with a football final 4.
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10-20-2005, 05:23 PM
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Re: A Playoff Solution For College Football
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[ QUOTE ] And how do the schools who make $ in the current system make $ in yours? [/ QUOTE ] The same way. The only difference is that they would make more money because the networks would bid up the price to a higher degree with a football final 4. [/ QUOTE ] Not you Carl, I was directing my question at the dismissive fellow who replied and obviously didn't consider why such "a crappy system" is so deeply entrenched into college football.
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10-20-2005, 02:52 PM
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Re: A Playoff Solution For College Football
Bowls suck for everyone except for the host cities, the schools, the players, and the fans that attend. It is a hell of a lot of fun to attend not just a bowl game, but the entire week of festivities that are centered around the bowl.
As far as a system to determine the best college football team, yes they suck. I don't see how anyone could argue this.
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10-20-2005, 05:26 PM
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Re: A Playoff Solution For College Football
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The bowls suck. Either eliminate them and come up with a real playoff (min 12 teams) like every other sport in the modern civilized world, or keep the crappy system in place. Seriously, if they eliminated the bowls in 15 years everyone would look back and laugh at the lunacy that used to exist. There actually really only has to be some very minor tweaking to the system to make everyone happy. Institute the following rule: -Play according to the previous bowl system prior to BCS -National Championship is played two weekends after New Year's Day between teams #1 and 2 at a neutral site. Eureka! [/ QUOTE ] What's your grand plan to overcome the obstacles I outlined with regards to a 6 - 8 team playoff, let alone a 12 team playoff? And the prior system to the BCS is much worse than the system I propose, because the #3 or #4 team would routinely get screwed by not getting a shot to play the #1 or #2 in a bowl game, and thus would have no chance to make the title game. The top 4 teams would always get a shot at the title with my system, and get to decide the national championship on the field.
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10-25-2005, 02:24 PM
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Re: A Playoff Solution For College Football
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The bowls suck. Either eliminate them and come up with a real playoff (min 12 teams) like every other sport in the modern civilized world, or keep the crappy system in place. Seriously, if they eliminated the bowls in 15 years everyone would look back and laugh at the lunacy that used to exist. There actually really only has to be some very minor tweaking to the system to make everyone happy. Institute the following rule: -Play according to the previous bowl system prior to BCS -National Championship is played two weekends after New Year's Day between teams #1 and 2 at a neutral site. Eureka! [/ QUOTE ] This wouldn't fix anything. Last year, USC, Oklahoma, and Auburn would all have won their bowl games, which would leave an undefeated team out of the titile game. (This isn't even considering teams like Utah, who would still have no chance.) In all of the lower divisions of CFB, there is a 16 team playoff. This is not so many teams that the regular season is meaningless, but it is enough to be sure that all deserving teams are included. (I don't feel bad for the 17th team that will be whining every year, because they could have earned their spot just by winning more games.) Logistically, these smaller schoold (where the players are actually their for an education) still manage to make it work. There is no reason that this couldn't be done for D-1A.
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