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Posted in Sports on Jan 2nd, 2008
Last month, I listed my plan for a college football playoff. After the bowl games so far, it still looks like a good idea to me.
The winners of the 11 major conferences would take the top 11 seeds, just like in the NFL. Then, 5 wild-card teams are added to the mix, making a field [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2007
I’ve been promoting the best plan for a college football playoffs.
Simply put, it’s the winners of the 11 major conferences taking the top 11 seeds, then 5 at-large or wild-card teams thrown into the mix, making a field of 16. Their seedings are by BCS standards. Non-BCS rated teams (the non-BCS-locked conference champs, usually) are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2007
So, they’ve concluded the regular season … and the conference championships … and they have picked the two teams to play for the college football championship.
And, again, they got it wrong.
Why?
Because the system is fundamentally flawed.
For example, Ohio State got into the game because the teams above them lost. Georgia, right behind Ohio State, didn’t.
Georgia [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2007
I said so last year. I actually have said so for over 20 years.
Major college football needs a playoff system.
Now, the NCAA, the politically-correct, financially-corrupt organization that oversees college football in the U.S., won’t come up with a playoff system for the “big schools” like Ohio State, LSU, Florida, Texas, and the like.
They have playoffs [...]
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