Good Stuff regarding college football postseason. While I agree with both Buzz and Mike to an extent, I have my own system I always thought would work. While I too think the smaller schools have no business competing with some of the larger ones, I do think a playoff could only help the system. Think a few years back when Auburn ran the table in the SEC(Team featured 4 NFL 1st rounders Jason Campbell, Cadillac Williams, Carlos Rogers, Ronnie Brown) and was left out of the championship game. The reason a playoff hasn't been worked out yet is simple, Money. There is too much money to be made by both the universities and owners of these BCS bowl games to simply do away with them. The idea I've always had was to go to an 8 team playoff consisting of each of the 6 BCS conference winners ( Big Ten, Pac Ten, Big12, SEC, ACC, Big East) The top overall non-BCS team, and one at-large bid. So this years field might look like this
1. Auburn
8. UConn
4.Wisconson
5. Stanford ( at large)
3. TCU
6. Oklahoma
2. Oregon
7. Virginia Tech
The rest of the remaining teams would then be placed into the BCS bowls, which still leaves plently of great teams for them to select. ( This years field would include Ohio State, LSU, Alabama, Michigan State, Boise State, to name a few)
While this may be a mere fantasy, I always find this topic fun to debate.
- Matt "Chief" Conboy
Ha ha I like that except there would need to be a way to get UConn out of that 8 team playoff. No way does the BIg East deserve the respect it gets, they need to re-evaluate the top conferences every year. I just hate how teams like Arkansas and LSU would be left out of things like this, I think they are clearly better than VA Tech or UConn.
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