Your Boy Jim Mora Said It Best!
Playoffs!! Yes Playoffs. Its getting pretty ridiculous that College Football, a sport that just about everyone loves for one reason or another gets pretty damm boring this time of year. When post season play rolls around all the drama and pageantry that makes CFB so exciting peaces out .
We (the fans) are then left with a month full of mostly meaningless bowl games. I’m especially pissed about it this year since my Oregon State Beavers completely blew a shot to play in the Rose Bowl( by losing at home to the Oregon (D) ucks) and are now most likely headed to the Sun Bowl With that loss almost a week removed, I’m back eating solid foods and done binge drinking so I can clairvoyantly drop 5 reasons why The BCS needs to the shake the spot and a College Football playoffs needs to be ushered in. Whether its 4,8, 12, 16 teams? Who cares just make it happen.
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5. Everyone else is doing it! – CFB is the only major College sport without a playoff or Tourny.
4. The debate and outrage wont stop – Many think that a major reason why CFB wont adopt a playoff system is that it will keep people (fans, media) from having heated discussions about who should play in the title game, top BCS bowls, etc. That will not happen, inevitably even with a Playoff format a few teams will still get snubbed and there will be plenty upset people venting.
3. Classic Matchups – Imagine if there was an 8 team playoff this year. It would shake down like so:
#8 Penn St. vs. #1 Texas
#5 USC vs. #4 Florida
#6 Utah vs. #3 Texas
#7 Texas Tech vs. #2 Oklahoma
Some nice treats!
2. Non BCS Schools would finally get a legit shot – Personally I’m all about the underdog but this year there isnt really a solid non BCS contender. Utah is a good team but not great. Sorry for the overt homerism but my Oregon State Beavers outplayed them at their field only to have the game stolen away by a solidly gritty Utah team aided by a bogus PI call and another Horrible Kahut moment . The fact is the BCS will never rank a non BCS school in the top 1 or 2 spots so a playoff would give them a fair shot to make a run.
1. USC fans could stop their crying – Living in SO Cal, every year nowadays I am bombarded by the Jim Hat ( USC Trojans) fans B’ ing and moaning about how they are really the best team and blah blah. While we all agree the BCS sucks right now its most heinous crime is allowing USC fans to think that they somehow still are the best team every year regardless of where they finish. The playoffs would put an end to that talk and if and when the men of Troy are bounced out MAYBE just MAYBE these bandwagoneer fans will finally admit they aren’t really #1 no matter what.
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