Should there be a playoff system.

by chobeegator1 on Oct 13, 2008 10:02 PM EDT Comment 7 comments

In a world where one loss brings an entire season to a screaching halt, a playoff system may be necessary to keep fans in it and distinguish trully talented teams from mediocre teams with less than average opponents.

This would be especially true in the SEC. A conference of cannibals where coming out unscathed is next to impossible, everyone eventually gets beat(only a matter of time for BAMA) and if its more than 5 weeks into the season, hang up your hat on the BCS and hope for a decent bowl game.

College football polls are unreliable and riddled with teams that wouldnt make it past the first round if a playoff system was introduced.

Though it would help conferences such as the SEC and Big 12. SMALL SCHOOLS should not fear, this will be an equal if not greater benefit. How many times have there been schools go 12-0 and only make it to a bowl with little importance and a one loss team go on to play in the BCS championship. A playoff system will give those small colleges having a cinderalla season something more to look forward to than the toilet bowl.

There are many ways a playoff system would work.

Champion from each conference go to playoffs.
Top 6,8,or 10 teams make it.
Top 2 from each confernce. Using a wild card system as in baseball.

Please be kind and use good grammar.

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Awesome!

This is an awesome idea. I wonder why nobody has ever come up with the idea of having a playoff before.

by tbcook on Oct 14, 2008 12:20 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Without even reading the entire thing, I will respond to the title.

HELL FUCKING YEAH.

Remember when we were kids and we mixed sodas together and called them "suicides"? It was OK though, because Dr. Pepper was always there.

by bdalebs on Oct 14, 2008 5:26 PM EDT reply actions

Nope.

Your initial assumption is flawed: college football’s last two champions were the once-beaten Florida Gators and the twice-defeated LSU Tigers.

Here we go again: http://thefulldeck.blogspot.com/

by ejruiz on Oct 14, 2008 7:15 PM EDT reply actions

i read my passage over and i know how you could have taken it. i didnt say that teams must be unbeaten to make it . i was sayin there is no consistency to the polls. there are teams that are beaten and make it to the championship while teams that are undefeated get nothing.

by chobeegator1 on Oct 16, 2008 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions

If I had it my way,

there would be a 16-team playoff format. The top 16 teams in the BCS standings make the single elimination tournament, with the #1 seed playing #16, #2 playing #15, etc. It would take 4 weeks and they could move the site of the championship game around the country every year.

Go Bears!

by RollOnYouBears667 on Oct 15, 2008 1:19 AM EDT reply actions