College Football Playoff: Really, That’s It?
The College Football Playoff needs to go the way of this year’s Christmas wrapping paper. In the trash.
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So this is it?
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This is what we sacrificed bowl season for?
Two lousy miss-matches and two, or is it three dozen meaningless undercards?
Remind me again what was wrong with the BCS system.
Convince me again why four teams picked by a panel of experts is better than picking two teams with a pool of rankings?
WAKE UP, I’M TALKIN’ TO YOU!
If you love communism you love the new playoff system – top down management forcing good upon the masses for the good of the masses. Maybe we can get Vladimir Putin on next year’s selection committee.
What the new playoff system is good for is ESPN and Sports Illustrated – a few national story lines are created for radio hosts, TV faces and keyboard jockeys to wax, drone and hammer . . . over and over and over. In the meantime, the regional and state stories fans of each team crave are lost.
Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports (another national brand feasting off the fans’ loss) predicts an eight game playoff. We’ll put aside the whole, “If a small playoff isn’t working let’s try a big one” fallacy because Dodd accidentally explains exactly why a play off tournament now hurts the game.
Give us back our bowl games
“While the SEC Championship is a staple in that conference, would anybody shed a tear if the Big Ten and Pac-12 games went away?”
ding ding ding
What matters in Columbus, Ohio is different from what matters in Birmingham. Alabama. What college fans in Georgia enjoy is different from what college fans in New York enjoy.
Wait, what college fans in New York?
DING! DING! DING!
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There are large groups of people out there in Yankee land, and nearby as well, thanks to Delta, who want college football to be professional football – college football is not “right” or “fair” if there are no multiple round play offs.
News flash New York . . . and Illinois and Iowa. You may have won The War, but we ain’t you and you ain’t us.
Each school and conference has a unique vision and purpose driving athletic competition because the sole reason for athletic competition is to further the mission of the institution. This is why Auburn and Georgia – an easy bus ride apart – behave differently. This is why the Pac 12 and the Big XII behave differently.
This is why Notre Dame will never join an athletic conference.
Is Hawaii like Boise State?
Is Boston College like UNLV?
The purpose of intercollegiate athletic competition is not to provide entertainment for the ignorant, disconnected masses. Forcing intercollegiate competition into a one size for all playoff flies in the face of both logic and human nature.
Of course, the current tournament is not a playoff anyway – it is merely an additional game. With the extra game, the championship tournament (cue ooos and aaahs) is saddled with a method for choosing participants just as flawed as the BCS system.
The national football tournament looked good with its makeup. But now we see it’s just another breed of hog and it dances lousy.
Is there an answer?
Give us back our bowl games and lets us enjoy football in December.
- Keep the additional Championship game final.
- We can even keep the section committee – and they get to keep their per diem.
- After the Bowls, select the Championship Finalists.
In place of two lousy semi-final games we get five or six semi-final games – in a “bad year” even more.
Remote controls pop, multiple TV’s move into living rooms, throngs pack bars everywhere – not just in Birmingham and East Lansing. Every school remains in competition until January 3rd.
Does Houston earn a shot? Can Ohio State get back in? But, it’s Notre Dame!
Oh, the chaos!
The lawlessness!
The anarchy!
Set ’em up, Miss Kitty! Drinks on me!
What a big time we will have AND we will have the two best teams playing in the Championship game!
What a country!