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In NCAA basketball, March Madness brings in the bucks big time. Why not do the same in football?

Because it takes too long! You can play 3 or 4 Basketball Games per week and you cannot do this in football. You can have a tournament in a city and play a bunch of games in one Arena over a weekend. You cannot do this in football. You CANNOT extend the football season longer than it already is. We have professional football for that and by the way the Super Bowl is now Feb 7 (if you can believe it). The purpose of college is NOT to train professional athletes.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/sfc/div2/sfcd2fs1.htm

You wouldn’t need to extend it to beyond the first or second week of January. A 16-team Tournament would take four weekends. A college program could get 10 regular season games if they so chose, and would still only play a MAXIMUM of 14 games - about the same as is played now. And the wouldn’t HAVE to schedule more regular season games if they couldn’t take the burden. Plus, you’re not asking EVERY school to play in the tournament, just sixteen teams, and then eight, and then four, and then two. And if college for some reason decided to have an NIT-type consolation set of Bowls, nothing would be stopping them.

Somehow, despite the fact that it is impossible, the other Divisions have found a way to make it work:

NCAA Division II football playoffs:
First Round
Saturday, Nov. 18
North Dakota State 31, Northwest Missouri State 17
Northwood, Mich. 28, Indiana, Pa. 0
Bloomsburg, Pa. 46, Saginaw Valley State, Mich. 32
Catawba, N.C. 28, West Georgia 24
Nebraska-Omaha 14, Pittsburg State, Kan. 3
Delta State, Miss. 49, Valdosta State, Ga. 12
Mesa State, Colo. 40, Northeastern State, Okla. 21
UC Davis 48, Chadron State, Neb. 10

Quarterfinals
Saturday, Nov. 25
Delta State, Miss. 20, Catawba, N.C. 14
Bloomsburg, Pa. 38, Northwood, Mich. 14
North Dakota St. 43, Nebraska-Omaha 21
UC Davis 62, Mesa State, Colo. 18

Semifinals
Saturday, Dec. 2
Delta St., Miss. 34, North Dakota State 16
UC Davis 48, Bloomsburg, Pa. 36

Championship
Saturday, Dec. 9
Braly Municipal Stadium, Florence, Ala.
Delta State, Miss. 63, Bloomsburg, Pa. 34

[You CANNOT extend the football season longer than it already is.]

Surely you jest!?! Used to be that ALL college games were OVER by Jan. 1st! Now, they are playing through Jan. 7th! Texas won’t play another game until Jan 7th! You telling me they can’t play a game each week from now to the 7th? (16 teams = 4 weeks of football).

We are not talking about extending ANYTHING.