When will college football use a playoff system to determine the champion like every other major sport does?
Posted by admin on Dec 16, 2008 in Football (American) |
Ross V asked:
Every year, deserving teams get screwed over by a machine and they miss the chance to play for the title. Why not adopt a playoff system and make it more exciting and challenging? That way, ALL teams would get more than fair treatment? I just think it’s weird that the fate of a college football team is left up to something that is non human.
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Every year, deserving teams get screwed over by a machine and they miss the chance to play for the title. Why not adopt a playoff system and make it more exciting and challenging? That way, ALL teams would get more than fair treatment? I just think it’s weird that the fate of a college football team is left up to something that is non human.
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2013 by the earliest for logistical reasons (they already have stadiums and sponsors prepared up until then)
It’s not going to happen. You are wasting your time.
It won’t happen until the university presidents are convinced that a playoff system will generate as much money as the current bowl system. It can easily be done, incorporating the bowl games into the playoff system and revolving the championship bowl game every year from bowl to bowl…this would keep the sponsors happy.
To all the people that say that it will never happen…I used to hear people say the same thing about interleague play and instant replay in baseball. There will be a playoff system in place, but it might be a long while before it happens. Once enough big schools have been screwed out of the national championship by BCS rankings, the university presidents will start to come around.
I won’t say never, but it will be a long time.
1. It is ALL about the money. BUT people are misguided about which money. Remember it’s the U Presidents that are holding this up, NOT the bowl people and sponsors. And that money that goes to the schools doesn’t go into the U Presidents pockets. It goes to 2 places; 1) partially to athletic departments and 2) partially to the school general fund. Those general funds go to NON-athletic things like financial aid, classrooms, student centers, etc. So the reason the college presidents make it all about the money is because they see their budgets getting cut by the government (especially in the current economy) and need the money or have to raise tuition. Now I am a sports fan to the max, but I am also a citizen. I don’t want tuitions going up just so we can have a football playoff system to replace a BCS system that works most of the time anyway.
ALSO if the athletic departments lose money that means they have to CUT sports programs. So NON-revenue sports like women’s basketball, track, baseball, and the non-major sports that don’t bring in any money get CUT. Again, tell some hard working young woman who plays Volleyball that her sport is being cut so we can have a football play-off and now she loses her scholarship. Tell her parents that and see what happens.
No diss on Obama, but his comment was a campaign stunt. We all know Obama’s priorities are on education before sports. As they should be.
When someone finally comes up with the money to make the NCAA act.
Right now, the Division IA championship (also known as the Division I Football Bowl Schools) is NOT determined by the NCAA. It is determined by the Bowl Championship Committee, which is composed of the conferences, which, in turn, is composed of the schools, or the Associated Press poll, which is not part of the BCS process (so we can have a split national championship). And, until someone, such as Nike, or Microsoft, ESPN or some other international corporation will cough up the MILLIONS required for a playoff system, the schools aren’t going to let the NCAA kill the cash cow known as bowls….