IrishCanadian25
Going on 10 years with WrestleZone
So let's face it - March Madness is insanity. It's fun and all, but the size of the playoff (it used to be 64-teams, now it's 65-teams, and it's expanding shortly...) renders the regular season useless. Aside from Kentucky vs Louisville, I don't bother normally.
College Football, on the other hand, has the best regular season under the sun. It's magnificent. The concern is that the end of the year is just a cash-manufacture, and that the absence of a playoff system leaves some deserving schools outside looking in.
Some "experts" have suggested a 16-team playoff. That's ******ed. You mean to tell me that the team that ends the year ranked #16 has the same claim to play for a national title as the team ranked 3rd?
Same argument I have against an 8-team playoff. It adds too many more weeks onto the season.
I, on the other hand, am in favor of a 4 team playoff.
Take the top 4 teams in the BCS at the end of the year - they are usually close to the coaches / AP poll anyway. Match them up, #4 @ #1 and #3 @ #2. Make the lower seeds play a road game. Do this early, when the average teams are playing in bowl games like the "KY Jelly Intense Sensation Lube-Bowl" or whatever they name those lower level games.
From there, the two winning teams meet up in whatever is considered the "National Title" bowl, whether it's the Fiesta or the Rose or what have you.
Secondarily, match up the two teams that lose in another bowl to determine the 3rd place team.
I'm sorry, but if you don't rank in the top 4, you shouldn't be in the national title conversation. And since even one loss can knock someone out of the top 4, it doesn't diminish the value of the regular season.
College Football, on the other hand, has the best regular season under the sun. It's magnificent. The concern is that the end of the year is just a cash-manufacture, and that the absence of a playoff system leaves some deserving schools outside looking in.
Some "experts" have suggested a 16-team playoff. That's ******ed. You mean to tell me that the team that ends the year ranked #16 has the same claim to play for a national title as the team ranked 3rd?
Same argument I have against an 8-team playoff. It adds too many more weeks onto the season.
I, on the other hand, am in favor of a 4 team playoff.
Take the top 4 teams in the BCS at the end of the year - they are usually close to the coaches / AP poll anyway. Match them up, #4 @ #1 and #3 @ #2. Make the lower seeds play a road game. Do this early, when the average teams are playing in bowl games like the "KY Jelly Intense Sensation Lube-Bowl" or whatever they name those lower level games.
From there, the two winning teams meet up in whatever is considered the "National Title" bowl, whether it's the Fiesta or the Rose or what have you.
Secondarily, match up the two teams that lose in another bowl to determine the 3rd place team.
I'm sorry, but if you don't rank in the top 4, you shouldn't be in the national title conversation. And since even one loss can knock someone out of the top 4, it doesn't diminish the value of the regular season.