Another Reason Why College Football Sucks
Oh goodie. We get to see back to back blowouts in the BCS Championship game. Ohio State will get another shot at getting destroyed by a SEC team. OSU does not deserve to be ranked number 1 in the nation. I don’t care that the Buckeyes are one of only two teams from major conferences with one loss. Ohio State didn’t beat anyone in the final top 20 BCS standings. If the BCS is going to punish Hawaii (who is undefeated) for playing nobody then the Buckeyes should have the same fate.
Hey, LSU where do you think you’re going? Get your ass back here! You don’t deserve to be in the big game either. You guys lost your last game of the regular season to an unranked team! And you come close to losing several others.
Who do I think should be in the BCS title game? I don’t know and I don’t give a you know what. I will never get into College Football until there is a playoff system. Yahoo sports writer Dan Wetzel has a system that works.
There is some debate about this issue. Some good, some not so much.
“There can’t be a playoff system in College Football. The kids would miss too much school.”
People who say this lack mental power. I chuckle to myself while pointing to the fact that division 1 is the only division in College Football without a playoff system. I guess the other divisions don’t care about their own so called student athletes.
“A playoff system would make the regular season less important.”
This argument does have some validity. But let us ponder this. What if there was a 16 team playoff system and a team like USC lost it’s first 2 games? Their season would be “over” because there isn’t a playoff. The excitement of their season would be gone. Most fans that wanted a National Title would stop viewing. But if the Trojans were fighting for a playoff spot, then the importance of the rest of season would be there.
And now for the real debate.
Let’s not kid ourselves people. There is only one real reason why we will never see a playoff system that makes sense. The NCAA runs March Madness and every dollar (sponsors, tv, and gate receipts) goes to the NCAA. The NCAA doesn’t run the bowl games. They are individual entities that have their own sponsors. Why would schools (that have a chance of winning the BCS Title) want to give up money that the bowls pay directly to them? Colleges would much rather get a big piece of the pie then getting the small amount they receive from the NCAA for going to March Madness.
It all comes down to money. Indeed the pursuit of it is the root of all evil. If a playoff system could generate more money, then it would have been implemented a long time ago.
I never understood interventions. What’s the point of being told you drink too much from a room full of reasons why you drink in the first place?
Posted: December 3, 2007 at 4:54 am | by Ryan
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