Thread: I don't want playoffs in college football

Originally Posted by jwfgeol

There is a topic which no one really talks about surrounding a play-off, and that's the fans who will travel. Fans who travel to bowl games usually make it a week long vacation during the holidays. I wonder how it would work if teams don't know who or where they are playing until a week before the game.

According to scenarios I've seen for playoffs, some call for the higher seeded teams to host games the first two rounds. There's your incentives to win down the stretch: home-field and more $$. The last two rounds would be neutral-site games, probably something along the line of the current BCS bowl rotation.

correct cosmo to a point. In D-IAA, D2 and DIII the only neutral game is a championship game. The rest are played at campus sites

But in D2 at least the top 8 teams (as ranked) get byes in 1st round and home games. So it does pay to win at the end (more home games)

Originally Posted by SamCdbs

Playoffs will destroy college football as we know it, just for the purpose of making it some kind of pretend AAA NFL.

It is a wonderful sport, as it. It was even better when the bowls all made their own deals after the season, rather than this formulastic #3SEC v. #6ACC to the Gator Bowl every year nonsense.

Man, I sure hope so. This is the only major sport in the world without a true champion. I'm tired of all the tired arguments detailing why this can't be done. HOGWASH!

WE NEED A PLAYOFF SYSTEM NOW!

I DONT watch college football for this very reason. How can any one rightfully be called a national champion with the BCS?

Originally Posted by Paradox-SJ

I DONT watch college football for this very reason. How can any one rightfully be called a national champion with the BCS?

I'm not advocating the current system, but this is the system that was voted into place, so teams can rightfully be called a national champion.


Sandra

Originally Posted by SandraC

I'm not advocating the current system, but this is the system that was voted into place, so teams can rightfully be called a national champion.

I question the choice of the bolded word. But, you're right, a team is "called" or ordained a national champion even though they haven't earned it through a playoff system like every other level of NCAA football or every other NCAA sport.

Originally Posted by cosmo_kramer

I question the choice of the bolded word. But, you're right, a team is "called" or ordained a national champion even though they haven't earned it through a playoff system like every other level of NCAA football or every other NCAA sport.

There is a playoff system. It involves two teams. That's two more teams than there used to be in the playoffs.


Sandra

Originally Posted by Paradox-SJ

I DONT watch college football for this very reason. How can any one rightfully be called a national champion with the BCS?

The BCS title game usually gets better TV rating that all 3 final four games combined.

Originally Posted by SandraC

I'm not advocating the current system, but this is the system that was voted into place, so teams can rightfully be called a national champion.

Voted by who?
5 Conferences set up the BCS, that's not even a majority of the Division 1-A conferences or schools.

The NCAA doesn't even recognize the BCS winner as a champion in it's record books.