Auburn at Alabama or Ohio State at Wisconsin or Bama at SC or Oklahoma at Missouri.....those aren't true road games? Three of those games involved losses by #1 ranked teams and Auburn could go down as well. The homefield advantage in a playoff system would be the absolute key to winning the championship. Granted.....#1 ranked teams would play at home but only one team....just one......would be annointed #1 before the playoffs and it would be accomplished by using the same data and polls that we have now so what is the difference?
I don't think so, in the NFL with all their divisions, the divisions are not equal and neither are the schedules. The Texans play in the toughest division in the AFC and have the toughest schedule. AFC South might not have a chance to have a wildcard while weaker divisions might produce better records get home fields and wild cards. It's just life.
Not anywhere near the advantage of being one of only 2 teams with an opportunity to play at all.....c'mon man. Ask any body at Boise, TCU, Utah, Mizzou, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Wisky, Sparty, et al if they would prefer 1) play for the title with the chance of a road game during the playoffs, 2) Not play for the title at all......please. Play the games.....
The NFL is one league....all playing by the same rules and in which all records are judged equally and in which the won-loss record and divisional standing is the end all for playoff seedings. Wouldn't be the case in NCAA seedings with all of the numerous conferences and various levels of competition.
.....and how is that different ifrom every other sport, on every other level of college competition. You are supporting an absurd position so much that you are beginning to give the impression that you are unwilling to compete on the field to determine a champion.....preferring instead this political train wreck of a beauty contest, because at present, it provides an unreasonable, unwarranted and irrational benefit to your homies..... Why not simply let them play? I'm sure JT and the Buckeye kids will play....I'm sure they'll go anywhere in the country to play anybody. Tell us where and we'll show up and compete. Interesting concept huh?
MCG can't get past that in any system that the SEC teams have to be given favored treatment because after all they play far and away the toughest schedule and that has to be rewarded with preferred treatment.
Florida had one of it's greatest wins in program history 3,000 miles away in front of a mostly hostile crowd. The Gators can win anywhere too. The point is that I like the way the current system keeps the regular season at fever pitch. It also allows nicked up teams to heal before the big title game. I can imagine if Cam Newton suffered a strained hammy in the Bama game and then had to play a playoff game the next week and as long as the playoffs would take they would have to play the following Saturday. Hardly fair to Auburn or to college football fans in general. This isn't the NFL which generally has capable back-ups on the bench. I just appreciate and enjoy college football as it is and I would hate to see it get down to no one cares if you win the SEC or the Big Ten title etc. Winning the SEC has always been a huge deal in the south and sometimes playing for the NC goes along with it.......especially in a BCS system that rewards a tough schedule. ....and last I looked Ohio State has played three times for the BCS title so it hasn't been too unkind to the Buckeyes either.
But only the chosen two....woe be to those teams who would otherwise have an opportunity to compete for the title save for an injury before a big regular season game.....TP's legs were maybe 70% for the Wisky game, do we get a pass? Boise, Utah, TCU et al body of work is every bit as deserving of competing for the title as anybody and more deserving than some who may get undue consideration based upon what has transpired in years past.....yet they risk getting shut out of even having the opportunity.....for what? It's patently absurd.... I don't care how times we've been to the title game, the process is badly flawed.....
Injuries are definitely a part of the game in the regular season to be sure. UF lost two games by 3 points each with the punter (regular PK has been injured ) trying and missing several kicks. Thankfully the poor lad made the winning kick vs. Georgia though. UF could easily be 7-1 right now but just like LSU I wouldn't expect them to be on anyone's NC radar because of the overall poor execution on offense this year.
Just like it is for every other NCAA division Just like it is in every other NCAA division And that would so much more unfair than what we do today? If Auburn beats Alabama this year and Cam Newton gets hurt he will miss the SEC Championship game...the next weekend. That is football. Mark Ingram got hurt and missed the Penn State game this year. 2nd game of the season. That's football. And every other NCAA division has a playoff.
Understand that the NCAA FBS is set up completely different than the NFL and there are so many teams spread out across the country you cannot even come close to the objective parity of the NFL. Thus.....NCAA FBS football would remain subjective and home field seedings would be deterimed by no less controversial methods than presently utilized and many many teams will have beefs every season about how they got screwed in the seedings. And as you agree....those seedings would determine who wins the championship.
Cue IrishCorey with regards to seedings and assingment of regionals for baseball. Same beef most people have with NCAA basketball seedings and assignments of regionals
I think home field advantage in major college football is absolutely huge. I can imagine USC fans complaining they had to fly all the way to Florida to play a playoff game in the Swamp when the difference betwen the two was....say decided by a computer vote or two. Playing in the Coliseum or playing in the Swamp is a night and day diffference.
So, your conclusion is that all the undefeateds and one loss teams who run the risk of getting ignored in the beauty pageant and not having an opportunity to play in the "championship" game would not find a playoff system more attractive given that they run the risk of having to win a game on the road in order to win a real championship game. WTF? Seriously, where do you get this stuff? That may be the single most ridiculous thing you've ever posted on this forum and that is saying alot.....
Just saying a playoff would be rife with issues.....lots of them. We have issues now too of course but I look at the regular season as a playoff itself.....which it is. Why should the loser of Bama-Auburn get a second chance? Why should Bama have to beat them again 2-3 weeks later? The game is one hell of National semi-final type game. Enjoy it.....
I pointed this out before, and it's still a GLARING weakness in your POV: If the "season" really was a playoff, then TCU and Boise St would have a very legitimate shot at the title. They do not. They will be passed over by a one-loss Alabama team should the Tide win out. So tell me again how this system in any way resembles a playoff which would certainly allow TCU and BSU to prove their worth ON THE FIELD...
MCG, By your reasoning we should not have a DIV I basketball tournament because the 66th ranked team might be upset. I don't agree.
Weighing all of the responses I have to say again.....which I have said for years.....that a "plus one" format would fit in well with the current system. You play the BCS Bowls as normal with the #1 seed vs. #4 seed and #2 seed vs. #3 seed and the winners then play for the title one or at most two weeks later in a rotating BCS Bowl site just like now. You still have bowls. polls and BCS ratings.......and a one game playoff for all of the TCUs and Boises to get in to provided they survive a BCS Bowl game when it really counts vs. highly motivated top notch competition.......which I haven't been convinced they could do.
Add one more weekend and you have an 8 team playoff. One week! Add two weeks and you have a 16 team playoff.
And we would either have major bowls in mid-Dec, no bowls or playoff games in cold weather sites in January. I think these things have long been thought about and it's not so simple unless you want to reject everything that college football has been about over the past 90 or so years.. You really want to see Alabama play a semi-final game at Michigan when the actual temp is 15 degrees on an icy field with a wind chill at -30 ? And before all you Big 10 types get your panties in a wad I am talking football outside in mid-Jan....not Big 10 football in November.