This evening, Appalachian State will play UMass for the Division I championship. I know it's a deadhorse but I love the way all the other college divisions and sports decide their respective national champions.
Wouldn't it be great if the big guys in college football had some kind of playoff? They could take the top 8 teams, keep the 4 BCS bowls and add another game for the national title. Oh well, it's not going to happen in our lifetime.
In the meantime, I'm going to support the little guys and you should too. So tonight, tune in and watch App. St vs UMass. Go Mountaineers!
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2 comments:
College football is far and away my fave sport. No other sport compares to the Intensity, Passion, Size of the Crowds, Bragging Rights, History, etc.
It has all this great stuff going for it and then, IN MY OPINION, falls WAY short when it comes to post-season because of too many bowl games and a lousy method of determining a champion.
Remember a couple years ago when LSU played OU for the Title? All my Longhorn friends were pissed cuz Texas didn't get their chance (not that they totally deserved it) Same thing with Auburn getting door-slammed in 2004. And to an extent, the same thing is happening this year with all those Wolverines wanting to face OSU again.
How to fix it? There's a guy in Texas(www.hujoblogger.com and no, you're still my fave bloggette, Miss Chica) with a not necessarily original but sound idea calling for a 12 game playoff system with the top 4 seeds getting first round byes. That’d be 11 games total with various matchups of the top 12 teams and with a clear cut Nat'l Champion game.
With the current BCS bowl system you can only wish for a maximum of 6 games matching up the top 12 teams with no clear cut winner.
Other things you do are cut back to the 11 game schedule and mandate every conference has a conference championship game and NO MORE INDEPENDENTS! For Pete's Sake, Notre Dame, pick a conference! The only non-cons should be the Military. The 5-8 seeds get to play at home in the first round. The second round games are played at the Peach Bowl, Gator Bowl, Cotton Bowl, and Sugar Bowl so as not to diminish their importance. The 2 third round games and the Championship game would rotate between the Orange, Fiesta, and Rose Bowls. You take the winners of the 6 BCS conference championship games and the next best 6 at-large teams with at least one being a Non-BCS conference team for a grand total of about 20 postseason games - some bowls and some playoffs. Everybody who's worth a damn still gets to play a bowl while the top 12 get to find out who is the REAL Champ.
Too many games? Not unless you think there are too many playoff games at the pro level. This wouldn't call for any more than the NFL uses and a crap-load less than hockey! BTW, my beloved Thrashers are 18-10-6 and in 2nd place in the East, but I digress...
This Hujoblogger dude has a great quote: "What has college football become? The YMCA? We can’t have any losers?" - I love it.
ESPN.com columnist Gene Wojciechowski (I know how much you loathe those U-Hatin' ESPN goober-smoochers, Miss Chica) sees the current system "so screwed up that it sees a therapist twice a week. It ought to be called the FAC (Flip A Coin) instead of the BCS."
Finish the Drill,
Thanks for the input and I BETTER BE YOUR FAVORITE BLOGGER!
Seriously, it doesn't matter how they do it but someone needs to do it; we need some kind of playoff! It's become a joke that as major as college football is, the national champion is still determined by antiquated methods.
And for the record, I like the idea your "new blogger friend" presented.
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