Is College football the biggest joke in the history of the universe?
Posted by admin on Sep 3, 2008 in Football (American) |
DeSean asked:
It doesn’t even have a logical way of crowning a legitimate Champion?
It doesn’t even have a logical way of crowning a legitimate Champion?
Computers? Polls? Opinions? What the?
College football makes a mockery of the spirit of sports by not having a playoff and not crowning a legitimate Champion. Unless all the top teams play one another there is no way to say who is the best. All major sports have a playoff. Pro football, baseball, basketball, World Cup soccer all have a rational way to crown a champion.
College football is a joke. What’s the point in paying attention to it when no true Champion is crowned?
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It’s the most ridiculous system and it needs a major overhaul, so I sorta agree with you.
You dont like……
You dont watch……
totally agree.
You’re right. The system makes absolutely no sense and it stirs up entirely too much controversy. Let the teams play to determine who is best, not some computer or so-called expert.
You’re right it is the worst system out there. But like everything else in this mixed up world we live in money talks so it will probably never change.
It’s not a legit poll. I mean, the sport itself it’s great. I think playoffs is the best way of solving it. Taking the first 36 teams for a tournament, and line them up like how NCAA basketball does it.
are you saying college football sucks simply because it doesn’t have a playoff system? that’s just stupid reasoning. people go to watch the games of their favorite college. being in one of those crazy environments is definitely the experience, and it’s way crazier than an nfl game. the rivalries are taken way more seriously and it doesn’t feature characters like pacman jones. it features more scoring, and the upsets are big deals. the bcs system might not be the most popular thing around, but college football is definitely not the biggest joke in the history of the universe.
I totally agree but until people stop making millions on the bowl system it will never change. College football and been bought and sold to the multimillion dollar media.
it has a bad system but its still good football
It is not a joke, name me another sport in the world where the level under the pros gets as much attention as college football does. DO we need a playoff? HELL YES. Think of how much college basketball gets in their playoff now think of how much college football would get. It would be amazing.
thats why i dont follow college football. its a popularity contest. thats why Ohio State last year went to the Nat. Champ because NCAA would make more money by letting them play because more people would watch that game instead of like a team that deserves to be there. Same with the polls, even if a team keeps winning their always behind teams that have losses because the team with the loss is more popular so they want to put them in the Championship game at the end. They already play less games than the NFL so why dont they have any playoffs. What better way to get them ready for the pros than to have them experience big games like the playoffs.
Completely agree.
through all the drama and bull in college football it is still a great sport
if the NCAA would put in a playoff system then college football would be even better then the NFL
a playoff system will happen one day but not anytime soon
I’d disagree. College Football is not a joke. It is a billion dollar entertainment industry. Over 340 colleges have football teams, not counting junior colleges. Even smaller programs generate millions of dollars a year for the schools and the communities supporting them.
I’d agree about the lack of a legitimate champion. Having the national championship participants selected by a convoluted poll with human biases and computer programs is unacceptable to the majority of true football fans. But the college presidents are tied to the bowl games because of the money they generate for the schools.
Many proposed playoff systems that would keep the bowls as part of the post season have all been rejected by the folks who make the decisions. Fans of football are fans of the sport. College presidents are fans of the football business.
All that ranting said, the BCS is still better than what we had before. In those days, conferences were contracted to particular bowl games which more often than not, kept the top 2 teams from meeting in a bowl.
For example, the Big 10 winner and the PAC 10 winner always played in the Rose Bowl. The Big 8, now merged with the defunct Southwest Conference as the Big 12, always hosted the Orange Bowl. So, if Oklahoma happened to be ranked #1 and Ohio State #2, they’d never play in a bowl game.
After the bowls were over, the AP sportswriters would decide for us, which team was the mythical national champion. Other polls might pick a different team so we’d have multiple mythical champions.
So, we’re better off now, but still a long way from deciding the national championship game participants on the field of play.