Posted on 01/05/2014 1:05:40 PM PST by Dave346
Edited on 01/05/2014 3:02:29 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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All of them? Perfect. I like it. Lol.
On any given day...
Or maybe pick Alabama three times. Heh.
The playoff format, will be whatever ESPN says it is. ESPN, controls college football now.
Indeed. this is yet another facet of the horrifying little story. espn is calling most of these shots.
when the revolution comes, espn should be first against the wall.
That was the whole purpose of the LSU/Bama rematch.
The espn angle really is a good point, and is sometimes overlooked. The playoff people actually think they will be in control of this thing, when, in fact, it will be entirely an espn production. “people” won’t decide who gets in the bracket, or who plays whom, or where they play. Espn will decide all of that.
it’s another way the playoff advocates are getting punked by forces that they don’t understand. They’re doing espn’s bidding, and they don’t even seem to realize it.
Fascinating. I didn’t know that.
ESPN played it perfect. And I still say LSU took a dive that game, it was to obvious.
Alayoff system will generate so much more interest in College football. As it is now, outside of the true followers, no one knows how the hell a champion gets named (notice I didn’t say awarded). Maybe 16 teams is too many, but an 8 team playoff is definitely the answer.
huh? That’s bonkers. College football does NOT suffer from a lack of interest. In fact, it may have just the opposite problem; ravenous, insatiable interest in the game is one of the things driving people to “improve” (translation: destroy) it.
Which is part of why I don’t like the playoff.
A team sustains a critical injury for the final game, and it undoes everything they worked for the entire season.
A championship should be won on the work over an entire season. That’s what made College Football different than the NFL....Now it will be no different.
It’s not that I necessarily oppose a playoff, I just don’t think it’s going to make people nearly as happy as they think it will.
It’s only fair...
indeed. the playoff is being sold as the magical solution to all that is wrong with college football. it isn’t. in fact, I haven’t run into too many people that can tell me what “the problem” really is. when you ask the question, what you usually get is a rant against the BCS. well, wait. the BCS isn’t “a problem”, it’s possibly an ineffective answer to a different problem, but it isn’t, in and of itself, “a problem”.
expecting linear orderliness out of college football is to completely misunderstand the thing in the first place.
College Football is about tradition. And that is being scuttled for the almighty dollar.
I don’t agree with you, but maybe it’s because I’m from California where College Football isn’t as big a thing as it is in the Midwest and in the southern regions. I can only tell you that people from this part of the country would follow things a lot more closely if some sort of official playoff system were in place. It just seems nebulous in disjointed from our perspective. The Rose Bowl, the big daddy of them all, hasn’t typically decided the National Championship in decades. In any case, if a playoff system doesn’t make sense in the Midwest or the South, so be it. Happy New Year.
That is a very good point.
well, at least you know what you perceive the problem to be, and you have a decent suggestion as to how playoff would fix it.
I would prefer to NOT destroy college football in order to give apathetic californians (and I was born in CA, by the way) something else to be apathetic about.
if people aren’t “bought in” with it the way it is, I would suggest that they just aren’t interested, and (short of naked cheerleaders) aren’t going to become interested.
“And the 5 and 6 teams will sleepwalk through their bowl games like Bama did, because the other bowl games are now to college football what the NIT is to college basketball.”
Yep. NIT = loser’s tournament.
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