For fans of those erstwhile unbeaten teams who now have lost a game.....or who will lose a game and not make the BCS Title game......and who wish for a playoff.......just come to the realization that the entire college football season is a playoff. I think it makes for great drama and enjoyment of the sport.
You really believe that? I'm sure Boise St, and TCU will agree if they are left out after undefeated seasons.
It's absurd....if that were true then those who have already failed and lost would be in the losers bracket and have to earn their way up to face those that have not.....that isn't the case in this farce of a system in which what you did in years past has a major bearing on where you are ranked this year.......that is a joke and bears no resemblance to an on the field play off.....
An on field playoff would introduce home field advantages and the bad luck of injury to the equation. I prefer to see the teams at full strength heading into the game......well rested....and on a neutral field.
You whine about injuries through the regular season like it only happened to the Gators. RE: Neutral Field... Where are most of the bowl games held? Lets put it this way... How many are in: SEC States vs. Big Ten States
Not talking about bowl games in general Tom.....just the BCS Title game. I understand when Fla played OSU in Az the crowd was at least 2 to 1 Buckeyes.
So how does that relate to a home field advantage? With a championship game at the end of the playoffs it could still be in Az.
Az. could be a home advantage say....for Az St but the point is that equals amount of tickets are available for fans of both teams in the BCS Title game. A playoff would have to include games at higher seeded team's home fields. Neutral site games just would be supported enough. Actually my favorite scenario would a bowls plus one with the plus one matching the top 2 highest seeded bowl winners after the bowls were played.
:lol: :lol: :lol: That's just MCG being MCG...that said it must be a real treat to see MCG becoming the lead Bama cheerleader! Can't understand how that happened? :wink:
....as it should be. They should benefit from their regular season performance. The present system does clearly benefit teams from warm weather states. How so? Have a southern team go up to Madison in December and let me know....if you do not have an effective running game or are capable of stopping an effective running game, you can't win in those conferences. The northern teams have the added burden of needing designs that are capable of performing in much more difficult conditions that do warm weather teams. Playing all the games in conditions that are better suited for warm weather teams is a clear competitive advantage.
I prefer to see the best teams play in the final game......with no home field advantage for either. The regular season as it stands currently rewards those teams who navigate successfully a tough schedule and every game is a playoff game.....such as what is shaping up to be another SEC National Semi-Final game.....Auburn vs. Alabama. Trust me...I am far from a fan of either team but I am a big fan of the SEC. The regular season becomes diluted considerably in any playoff scenario other than a plus one format.
I watched....no....I was forced to watch by unwanted regional coverage tons of boring Big Ten games in my time up north and never did I see one played in December and very few times did cold weather appear to be a big player in deciding the outcome or the style of play. That is a myth.
Well, if the last games of the regular season are played in the last week of November and first week of Oh wait - December, when do you think the playoff games would be played? :lol: :lol: :lol: In your fantasy world perhaps, but one that I have experienced in person as I would expect that every other fan on this board living north of the mason-dixon line has as well.....but that said, there is no reason for them to fear a playoff structure consistent with the NFL or the FCS schools.
I watched Earle Bruce's last game as OSU coach....watched him go out a winner vs. Michigan in the late 80s and it was 25 and snow flurries. Pretty damned chilly. But the coldest game by far I have ever been in attendance was the 1983 Gator Bowl vs. a Big Ten team that should have been used to it.....Iowa. The actual temp was around 22 and the wind was blowing 15 mph making for a wind chill in the single digits. Of course the southern team.....UF....played hard nosed defensive football and won 14-3 over a tenth ranked Iowa team that been ranked #1 at one time that season. UF was #11 going into the game and featured a pretty decent defensive player.....Wilbur Marshall.....who would go on to star in many icy cold Soldier Field games with the Chicago Bears in games that were really played in the cold of December and Jan.
Stu, you beat me to the punch.....I had that image queued up and ready to go......but then realized it was only a myth! :lol: :lol: Great pic....is that confetti? :wink:
Also sat in Michigan stadium early in the season and damned near passed out in the heat.....watching the Hurricanes vs. UMich. Point is.....there all kinds of conditions during the season and the only true affect I can agree to is when northern teams don't get in a hot practice situation before going down to play a very warm weather bowl game. But.....ask NW last year vs. Auburn how warm they were playing Auburn in a cold assed rain here in Tampa.
Well to be fair, the games that MCG watched were regular season games and in the past there have been no regular season games in B10 country during the month of Dec. As an ND fan for the most part our Nov games are mostly cold, but rarely do we face snow and freezing temps during the game. Not to say it doesn't happen ever, but it's not the typical game Now it is cold on game day in Northern Indiana that's for sure, much more so than most if not all SEC games by comparisson. However in Milwaukee Wisc the avg high for the month of Dec is 33 degrees, with the avg low of -1 degrees. Ever watch the Packers in Dec? So that is when we would be talking about playing playoff games, SEC teams that traveled north would be shocked at the cold temps they would be playing in while the B10 teams and ND would already be conditioned for cold weather games.