[Wayne07]

Even an 8 team playoff would be a 1000% improvement. I also miss a new Years day packed with games...

[Benchim]

Me Too. This is part of the total collapse of our country.

[truthfreedom]

A playoff would be preferable to what they have now.

But I prefer the old days, when the last game was on New Years Day. Every game on New Years was an important game. Since it really doesn’t matter who the national champion is, there was a coaches poll and a writers poll. And sometimes there were 2 undefeated teams, and sometimes they didn’t play each other.
It worked out fine. There was no real pressing need for any of this BCS talk.

Now conferences are pretty much pointless. Nebraska in the Big 10? Why? So we really can’t go back to the old days, when it was better.

Back in the old days, too, these football games were on network TV. There are 35 bowl games this year, and 32 were on ESPN or ESPN2 or another version of ESPN. The BCS championship game is on ESPN.

I’m not anti ESPN, and I actually do have this godaddy bowl on. That’s what this is now - the bowl system is now a method to provide ESPN a bunch of programming that’s better than whatever else they’d have on, probably regular season college basketball.

College Football New Years Day bowls was more of an event back in the day.

[urtax$@work]

I kept looking also on Jan 1. i think one game. Did that ESPN suck up all the regular TV coverage? All 274 (/s) bowl games scattered across 2 or 3 weeks in Dec/Jan.

Since the BCS guy and his little excel spreadsheet lives not far from our house, our neighborhood is gonna start it's own bowl.