Posted on 11/22/2011 8:09:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Since the very first sentence is wrong the rest of it doesn’t matter. There are probably 50 NCAA sports with playoffs, football should be no different.
Which, of course...means, not at all.
If, at the end of the current season, LSU and Alabama are determined to be the best two football teams in the country, then they should play again. I'm in favor of a playoff, but it would require elimination or major restructuring of the current conferences and schedules. I could see a five game season followed by an extensive single-elimination playoff.
Sounds to me like he's skeered! Roll Tide!
BCS is a joke..VaTech at #6...look at their schedule..if they were in the SEC, they'd have 2 wins..
This discounts the whole article IMO. LSU knows that Alabama won in every way but the one that counts. LSU wants no part of another game with the Crimson Tide.
Full Disclosure: I'm a UGA fan. I don't have a dog in this hunt, other than being another speed bump on LSU's road to N'Awlins.
I disagree with the logistics argument — what’s to stop them from using the current BCS system to determine seeds #1-8 for a playoff system, while still letting anyone who can manage to scrape up 6 wins make it into a bowl game? A 3-round playoff is only 7 games total — 3 more than what the 8 teams would have played in their BCS bowl assignments. Considering that “bowl season” already covers 2 weeks (and more) plus the BCS title game a week later, this wouldn’t even affect the length of the season as compared to now.
I mean, not that I’m entirely thrilled with how the BCS rankings are determined, but from a logistics standpoint, it would be quite simple to implement.
The BCS is a joke, but look what it has to work with. There is no consistency in scheduling or conference structures.
The author needs a new dictionary. The words “epic and thrilling” should not be used in refernce to a score of 9 - 6 for a football game.
They could set up a playoff and have a very rigid entry requirement — CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS ONLY!
Right now there are 11 conferences, these could easily be consolidated down into 8 conferences — indeed some of the smaller ones are looking at combining already.
BY combining and making larger conferences you force a Conference Championship game. The champions then enter the playoff, and everyone else is available for bowl games just as they are now.
With an 8 team playoff of conf champs and the conf champ games you end up with a defacto 16 team playoff.
QED!
FYI...RealClearSports..under college football..a fascinating article “Big 10 looks INWARD”...well worth the read..
BTW..see my #13,,good read..
Did you watch the game? This was two BIG BOY teams slugging it out unmercifully for 60+ minutes.
I will taking an EPIC and yes THRILLING battle like this over some silly 56-52 VIDEO GAME.
The Super Bowl usually features two teams that also played in the regular season, so what’s the big deal?
The best three teams in the country are in the SEC, deal with it....it’s just too bad one of those teams will miss out on a BCS bowl entirely.
True, but those 3-4 teams already had their 'playoff' furing conference play and the Conference Chamionship Game.
I am all for an LSU-Alabama rematch under the current system, but a playoff system I feel should just be the COnference Champions. Just my opinion.
As would I, that was a fantastic game to watch, just like a classic pitcher's duel.
Do you realize that there is a good chance that the National Championship game will feature a team that was not good enough to win its own division, much less its own conference?
Besides, I've already watched LSU vs. Alabama. I have no desire to watch the two largely inept offenses play another snoozer game against each other.
Very true. But, imagine the chaos if UGA somehow upsets LSU in the Conference Championship (yes I am expecting LSU to beat down Arky). It is quite possible that a late FG or overtime win by UGA would leave LSU in the top 2. In that scenario the BCS does allow 3 teams from a Conf in. UGA would get the auto-qualify to the Sugar Bowl while LSU-Bama would play in the BCS Championship.
Full disclosure: I am a UGA fan, but even I know that the above is almost a 99.99999% pure fantasy. I would love for my Dawgs to win, but the reality is LSU should win by at least two TD's.
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