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Dawgzilla
(64.190.73.10) on 12/4/2006 - 10:14 a.m. says: ( 22 views
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"Wayne, I got news for you.... "
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This thing we call college football is all about a dozen or so programs that will make money for TV networks and then the rest of us pretending to be on equal footing. Well boys WE AIN'T . . . and I without a playoff we never will be. As long as it is a popularity contest, with those who draw the most money are the most popular . . . we won't get a fair shake in this thing
A playoff would actgually make this situation WORSE, not better. Oh, sure, the annointed money maker clique might have to expand to around 20 teams, but the other 100 teams in Div. 1A would become irrelevant, except for playing the roles of spoilers. There would be no George Masons in a playoff system.
Setting up a playoff would require choosing 8, or perhaps even 16 teams. Right there multiple teams are gonna get screwed. Now I agree, its a little more palatable to see a 2 loss Rutgers team get left out of the mix than to see Michigan, with a legitimate shot at winning it all, get shafted, but nevertheless there will still be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
But what happens to the other 100 teams who get left out of the playoffs. They are now irrelevant. The hard fought upset win over Florida? Who cares, Florida is the 2 seed in the playoffs and Auburn is sitting at home. Georgia's stirring resurrection at the end of the season to beat Auburn and Ga. Tech. Eh, maybe it will give them something to build on for next year, but it is pretty much meaningless. And don't get me started on the Egg Bowl, the season ended in September for those two teams.
The playoff teams will get more money, a huge recruiting edge, and will widen the gap between the haves and have nots.
This is what is already wrong with college football. We have too many teams, and now a public insistence on determining a single champion.
College football used to be about the individual games. 10 win seasons were considered quite an accomplishment, but the beauty of the season was the week to week clashes. An MSU fan could aspire for a winning season, a victory over UMiss and Alabama and/or Auburn, and then record the Fall as a rousing success.
The BCS has already made college football about the chase for a championship. You lose a close game on the road to a hated rival, and suddenly your season is a failure. The otherwise impressive wins to follow don't mean much, unless you manage to knock someone else out of the playoffs.
MSU and UMiss become just inkstains on the college football landscape. Yeah, they will have their occaisional winning seasons, but otherwise they are just a nuisance. They become teams you have to beat, or else your own season becomes a total failure.
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I should mention that Ole Miss and Mississippi State fans hate each other with a passion. The general consensus among Ole Miss fans is that MSU fans are illiterate rednecks while the general consensus of Mississippi State fans is that Ole Miss fans are arrogant and pretentious pansies. This divergence of opinion is interesting because the general consensus of the rest of the country is that all Mississippians, Rebels or Bulldogs, are illiterate rednecks. -- Clay Travis<
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