College Football 2009 -

You want a playoff in college football? With the release of the initial BCS standings, the playoffs are in full swing. It might not be in the tidy tournament format the new Playoff Action Committee wants, but let me ask you this. How often do you hear gripes about teams left out of the NCAA basketball tournament? My point is a playoff format wouldn't fix everything. The fifth-best team or ninth-best team or 17th-best team would be griping. To illuminate my point, if you used the BCS standings at the moment, Cincinnati wouldn't make a four-team playoff. LSU would be squeezed out of an 8-team field. In a never-going-to-happen-in-our lifetime 16-team bracket, Oklahoma State would be in, Houston out. Remember what happened on the field in Stillwater?

If a four-team playoff started this week, Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly would not be clapping.

How about if we celebrate what we do have, the most significant regular season in sports? And one in which if LSU wants to play for a national championship, the Tigers have that chance. If LSU can beat Alabama then take down Florida in the SEC championship game, the Tigers would be hard to squeeze out of Pasadena. LSU would even get a second shot at the Gators along the way. Just like a playoff.

I'm not really trying to convince you this is as clean as a seeded playoff would be. I'm just saying the pined-for playoff wouldn't necessarily be college football utopia. It also would reduce the impact of mammoth upsets, like Washington over USC. To me, that weekly drama playing out in unlikely places is compelling. I'm not opposed to playoffs. In fact, I'd love to see them seed 1-4 in the bowls and have the winners play. But I also put a great deal of value on the pursuit of a championship we witness every week. By the way, I wouldn't contribute to that new Playoff Action Committee's fundraising efforts. Your money would be better spent investing in the Heene family's new reality show "Little Falcon's Hot Air Balloon Hoaxes." Then again, that Playoff Action Committee likely will have the most hot air this side of Falcon's balloon. We digress.

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All Those Yesterdays wrote:

81 wrote:

All Those Yesterdays wrote:

I'll be on the golf course in Ann Arbor tail gating Sunday if anyone else is going to be there.

My condolances.

Anything new and exciting going on in Toledo.

Ah it is always a good time.. 3:30 game, guess we will be pulling in the Golf Course around 7:30 a.m., that should give us enough time!

Just the new arena downtown which is a good thing, and Hockey is back ....

from what i could tell the areana looks pretty sweet. it was still fun going to the sports areana for storm games. and i'll say it, they should have kept the Storm. Walleys...come one, that is such a game name.

brutal trip to wvu...good to get that out of the way and just play...funeral today then back home next week vs. Rutgers...should be another emotionally draining week, but hopefully followed by a victory.

That Iowa, Indiana game was NUTS!

Unreal!

mfc2006 wrote:

that was a fun game to watch!!!

i'm watching KU/TTU & Georgia/Florida now...great day in CFB so far!

The Hawkeyes are going to give me a heart attack this year!
I hope my fingernails grow back by next weekend!

Florida does it again... Now they are 18 and 0
Tebow breaks H.Walkers record :shock: # 50 rush touchdowns

where'd Norm go???

:QUACK:

norm wrote:

imalive wrote:

where'd Norm go???

:QUACK:

:twisted: :twisted:

THERE you are!

A man had tickets for the Ohio State - Michigan game. As he sits down, a man comes down and asks if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him."No", he says, "The seat is empty."
"This is incredible," said the man. "Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the Ohio - Michigan game, the biggest sporting event in the world, and not use it?" He said, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. I was supposed to come with my wife, but she passed away. This is the first Ohio State - Michigan game we haven't been to together since we got married in 1957". "Oh ... I'm sorry to hear that.. That's terrible. But couldn't you find someone else - a friend or relative, or even a neighbor to take the seat?" The man shakes his head. "No. They're all at the funeral."

:shock:

GO HAWKS!!!!!!