Ring the bell on the college football season. LSU downed Ohio State last night in the BCS Title Game. Year in and year out I put my money on the SEC as the best conference in college football. The Tigers added on to Florida's work last year showing just what SEC speed does.
Full disclosure, I love bowl season. I've managed to watch way too many of these meaningless games this holiday season and I've enjoyed it. However even an idiot realizes that college football needs a playoff and not the "plus one" model that has become so in as of late.
With college presidents not about to give up the money they control with the BCS anytime soon we probably have a better chance of seeing Brtiney Spears win Parenting Magazine's "Mom of the Year" award before a sensible 8 or 16 team playoff. The excuses are endless-- it will extend the season way too long (that's crap-- IAA does it, cut back to 11 games and make it happen), it will make the bowl games pointless (exactly, you've already done that w/ the BCS, only the title game means something), we're concerned over these student athletes missing class (good one eh?) and it leaves the regular season meaningless (yeah no one watches regular season NFL).
With no real (aka non "plus-one") playoff on the horizon, I'm suggesting college football pull a Michael J. Fox and go Back to the Future. Let's return to the old bowl system, where conferences had automatic tie-ins and bowl games awarded lots of "at-large" bids that ended up with more backroom deals than in an episode of Dallas.
1 comments:
Couldn't agree more about going back to the "old" bowl system. All of these pre-determined slots are making for horrible match-ups and empty seats.
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