That's fine....whatever, let's play. The opportunity to play and advance to a title game beats an exhibition any day of the week. I'm certain our players and a vast majority of fans would feel the same as I....let's play. No, it's not....nor is pee-wee football, middle school football, high school football, junior college football, FCS college football - on several levels, semi-pro football and NFL football but they have all come to the conclusion that a competitive playoff event is the preferred method of selecting a champion and manage to do so in the face of the precise same obstacles you continually bring up......if they can manage, there is no rational reason why the FBS schools and only the FBS schools cannot.....
Started my topic w/o seeing yours......only need one. Basically I have agreed we could see playoffs in FBS but they will not come without a lot of disagrreement on how it should be done and not everyone will be pleased with the results. I think it ( the FBS ) is more complicated than just saying " let's have a playoff"... For instance....if there was a "plus one" then the Buckeyes wouldn't have made it. If there were 8 teams.....#s 9 thru 16 are gonna be miffed and crying just like we have now not to mention the NC winner will have to play three games after playing it's conference championship game and a 12 game regular season..
Anything towards a playoff would be an improvement and we shouldn't wait for perfection before pursuing improvements.....if that was the natural order of evolution we would still be loping through the jungle on all fours..... There is no rational reason why FBS colleges are the singular example....we shall just disagree. Your school and conference have a vested interest in preserving the status quo due to its inherent biases, I get that....
I agree the BCS has worked out well for the SEC and for UF. But the SEC has beaten top teams from the Big 10, Big 12 and Pac 10 in the process........accomplishments on the field that shouldn't be overlooked in the zest for a playoff.
Kp....what do you propose and why and how would you address the issues that I have listed at one time or another? Should we say screw the regular season? Should the kids play 20 games? Is America wealthy enough to travel to regular season away games and then 2-3 playoff games? If it was that easy I think it would have happened by now. BT....you think Wisconsin should have had to beat OSU a 2nd time this year in a playoff? Why is that?
MCG, I say we handle them just like every other sport handles them. We bitch and moan about who didn't get in the tournament but we also don't have 3 or 4 teams with the same record that don't have a chance to win the championship. Do you think the tournaments in every other division of the NCAA is meaningless? Wasn't it great when UF won the Basketball NC a couple of years ago and there was nothing anyone could say to dispute it? Of course a playoff wouldn't be perfect but now you tell me why every other division/sport in the NCAA can make a playoff work but the FBS won't even try? It works for every other sport. Every other sport.
And that illustrates what I have said about a plus one format being the most desirable and manageable format without dramatically altering the character of the college FBS game. Only a very small handful ( 4 ) would actually qualify and in reality be qualified to win the national championship. Of course that format could have/would have led to a Bama-UF rematch in 2009 and I think Bama fans would have found that completely unnecessary while UF fans would have rejoiced with the second chance......a chance the Gators didn't really deserve and yet they may have made the most of it. There is nothing I see that is right about that.
I know that Corey and others advocate a 16 team playoff. Me, I think that with more conferences moving to a playoff that the playoff week and maybe one more week could be used to narrow the field to 8 which then would require 3 weeks. With all the bowls we now have that should not be a problem. But I don't have the formula.
Finals usually occur in the 2nd/3rd week of December. Even an 8 team playoff would use those weeks in most scenarios and would add 2 games to what for conference champions is a 14 game schedule already. Nothing is simple about a playoff.
Another benefit to a playoff that I don't hear talked about too much is that teams would be tuned up for the post season. As it is now, we don't have the best teams a MONTH after the end of the season when they play in the BS CG. Did I REALLY get the Oregon and Auburn teams that destroyed the regular season in that game? However, if you take a week off before the playoffs, then play through to the CG, everyone is still in game shape and we are more likely to see the product that we all look forward to seeing.
MCG, One week is already taken up by a bowl game anyway. This is all chaff. Every other division of college football and every other college sport has figured out a way to make this work...successfully. :shock: