Comments on: Five reasons to love college football http://montaraventures.com/blog/2006/08/27/five-reasons-to-love-college-football/ Mike Harding's Blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:18:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: mike http://montaraventures.com/blog/2006/08/27/five-reasons-to-love-college-football/#comment-23 mike Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:53:20 +0000 http://www.montaraventures.com/blog/?p=102#comment-23 Great comments, thanks. BTW, I agree about the Big 11, Notre Dame should just get over itself and join so there'd be 12 and they could fight with that "other" Big and 12 conference over names..... That being said, I am a playoff proponent in the manner you layout above, I still stand by my comment though "win your games against quality competition" and the rest takes care of itself regardless of the post season format. Great comments, thanks. BTW, I agree about the Big 11, Notre Dame should just get over itself and join so there’d be 12 and they could fight with that “other” Big and 12 conference over names…..

That being said, I am a playoff proponent in the manner you layout above, I still stand by my comment though “win your games against quality competition” and the rest takes care of itself regardless of the post season format.

]]> By: Mark http://montaraventures.com/blog/2006/08/27/five-reasons-to-love-college-football/#comment-22 Mark Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:38:10 +0000 http://www.montaraventures.com/blog/?p=102#comment-22 The whole season is a playoff? Tell that to USC in 2003. The BCS should have been canned right then. Strength of schedule matters now for Auburn? Why did it not matter in 1983? The simple truth is, the BCS is a single game playoff with a flawed seeding system. 2003 proved the BCS failed in its fundamental mission: To pit #1 against #2, produce a true national champion, and eliminate forever split titles. Any seeding system which places a conference title game loser (FYI, conference title games are playoff games), into a national championship game is screwed. When was the last time an NFC or AFC runner up made it to the SuperBowl? The BCS seeding system is still fundamentally flawed because there is no automatic elimanation of a conference championship loser. The critics of a playoff say we can't have a playoff because we cannot tolerate any more games added to the season. Then this year they add a 12th regular season game. Add a conference championship and you are at 13. Add a bowl and you are at 14. Here is a crazy idea. Go back to an eleven game season. Modify the BCS seeding so no conference championship game loser can be in the BCS championship, regardless of polls or computers (i.e., single elimination). Have two semifinal games (#1 vs. #4, and #2 vs. #3) on New Year's day. Then have a "College Superbowl" in mid January. Yes, #5 will feel slighted. But if it works, someday it could be expanded to a quarterfinal, with eight teams seeded. With only eleven conferences, and a only a handful of independents, that is the most Division 1 college football needs. #9 should have done better. What would work even better with an eight team playoff would be if there were the elimination of independents, some consolidation of conferences, and a requirement for conference championship games. This would allow the conference championship games to be integrated as the first round of a playoff. By the way, why is an eleven team conference called "The Big 10". Is it because you midwestern farmboys can't count above 10? Maybe you need to take your shoes off. The whole season is a playoff? Tell that to USC in 2003. The BCS should have been canned right then.

Strength of schedule matters now for Auburn? Why did it not matter in 1983?

The simple truth is, the BCS is a single game playoff with a flawed seeding system. 2003 proved the BCS failed in its fundamental mission: To pit #1 against #2, produce a true national champion, and eliminate forever split titles.

Any seeding system which places a conference title game loser (FYI, conference title games are playoff games), into a national championship game is screwed. When was the last time an NFC or AFC runner up made it to the SuperBowl?

The BCS seeding system is still fundamentally flawed because there is no automatic elimanation of a conference championship loser.

The critics of a playoff say we can’t have a playoff because we cannot tolerate any more games added to the season. Then this year they add a 12th regular season game. Add a conference championship and you are at 13. Add a bowl and you are at 14.

Here is a crazy idea. Go back to an eleven game season. Modify the BCS seeding so no conference championship game loser can be in the BCS championship, regardless of polls or computers (i.e., single elimination). Have two semifinal games (#1 vs. #4, and #2 vs. #3) on New Year’s day. Then have a “College Superbowl” in mid January.

Yes, #5 will feel slighted. But if it works, someday it could be expanded to a quarterfinal, with eight teams seeded. With only eleven conferences, and a only a handful of independents, that is the most Division 1 college football needs. #9 should have done better.

What would work even better with an eight team playoff would be if there were the elimination of independents, some consolidation of conferences, and a requirement for conference championship games. This would allow the conference championship games to be integrated as the first round of a playoff.

By the way, why is an eleven team conference called “The Big 10″. Is it because you midwestern farmboys can’t count above 10? Maybe you need to take your shoes off.

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