Thread: I don't want playoffs in college football

This is my opinion, and I'll stick to it as long as I live.

I do NOT want a playoff- not now, not ever. I am fine with the BCS.

Here are my reasons why:

1. Don't punish the other strong teams. How would it be fair if the #3 or #5 teams don't get a chance to finish off their seasons on a high note. I'd rather have multiple teams end the season happy rather than over 100 teams be upset.

I'd rather see a couple of high-ranked teams played a handful of thrillers than one blowout game to end it all with everyone else dissapointated.

If you playoff-pushers got your way, Boise State wouldn't have gotten a chance to pull off those epic trick plays against Oklahoma. And the two greatest bowl games of all time- the Texas-USC Rose Bowl from 2006 and Miami-Ohio State Fiesta Bowl from 2003? If you playoff-wishers got what you wanted, instead of those epic battles, we'd have split champions.

2. Is a playoff system THAT more entertaining? Everyone talks about college basketball's tournament, but the last few years have been very lackluster. The 2007 tournament was among the least entertaining of all-time- no real drama.

3. It would hurt rivalries. Alabama already clinched the SEC West in early-November. How fair would it have been if Bama took the foot off the gas and sat their starters the rest of the year? It would make the Iron Bowl similar to some late-season NFL games where nobody on a team plays beyond the first quarter.

To those of you who scream for a playoff, I say- be careful what you wish for.

Originally Posted by SabresRule

1. Don't punish the other strong teams. How would it be fair if the #3 or #5 teams don't get a chance to finish off their seasons on a high note. I'd rather have multiple teams end the season happy rather than over 100 teams be upset.

I'd rather see a couple of high-ranked teams played a handful of thrillers than one blowout game to end it all with everyone else dissapointated.

That's just un American right there. Why not give everybody a ribbon and tell them they're special? Why have any competition at all? Why have elections where someone has to lose? Let's just become communists.

Originally Posted by SabresRule

If you playoff-pushers got your way, Boise State wouldn't have gotten a chance to pull off those epic trick plays against Oklahoma. And the two greatest bowl games of all time- the Texas-USC Rose Bowl from 2006 and Miami-Ohio State Fiesta Bowl from 2003? If you playoff-wishers got what you wanted, instead of those epic battles, we'd have split champions.

Why would there be split champions? A playoff guarantees one champion.

Originally Posted by SabresRule

2. Is a playoff system THAT more entertaining? Everyone talks about college basketball's tournament, but the last few years have been very lackluster. The 2007 tournament was among the least entertaining of all-time- no real drama.

Yeah the Kansas-Memphis CG in 2008 was a real snoozer. Such a shame that someone had to lose. Why not call them both champions and not hurt anyone's feelings instead of playing that OT.

Originally Posted by SabresRule

3. It would hurt rivalries. Alabama already clinched the SEC West in early-November. How fair would it have been if Bama took the foot off the gas and sat their starters the rest of the year? It would make the Iron Bowl similar to some late-season NFL games where nobody on a team plays beyond the first quarter.

To those of you who scream for a playoff, I say- be careful what you wish for.

You've obviously never spent time in Alabama or around any serious college rivalry. Let's test your little theory and see if Alabama rests their starters against Auburn since they've got Florida the next week, or see if GT rests their starters against Georgia since they've got the ACC CG the next week.

This will be a thread of awesome.

i'm all for a playoff system for reasons already posted a hundred times before

Originally Posted by SabresRule

1. Don't punish the other strong teams. How would it be fair if the #3 or #5 teams don't get a chance to finish off their seasons on a high note. I'd rather have multiple teams end the season happy rather than over 100 teams be upset.

All the teams in the Final Four still end in a high note. Why would Football be any different than Basketball?

Originally Posted by SabresRule

2. Is a playoff system THAT more entertaining? Everyone talks about college basketball's tournament, but the last few years have been very lackluster. The 2007 tournament was among the least entertaining of all-time- no real drama.

I thought it was pretty entertaining. I know Anders loved it. And drama? Who cares, we want good games, which it provided.

Originally Posted by SabresRule

3. It would hurt rivalries. Alabama already clinched the SEC West in early-November. How fair would it have been if Bama took the foot off the gas and sat their starters the rest of the year? It would make the Iron Bowl similar to some late-season NFL games where nobody on a team plays beyond the first quarter.

Why? They don't let up in Basketball after someone has clinched the Conference Regular Season Title, or for the reason that everyone goes to the Tournament anyway. Again, why would Football be any different?

Playoffs would be great. At least then the pretenders who go undefeated on a joke schedule in a joke league would actually have to earn a National Title instead of crying that they were robbed.

It is a joke right now. Wait 4-6 weeks to play a championship game. It's like getting to the US Open final in tennis and playing it weeks after the semi-finals.

The way it is set up now, teams are playing for the RIGHT to play in the final game but I do not view it as a championship game with such delay.

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.

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.

Before the BCS came along, yes.

But the BCS destroyed the Bowl Season. No longer do people wait for Jan 1st, to sit and watch football all day. The "mystique" of the Bowls was destroyed.

Playoffs work in every other division of College Football, no reason they won't work in 1-A.

Originally Posted by SabresRule

1. Don't punish the other strong teams. How would it be fair if the #3 or #5 teams don't get a chance to finish off their seasons on a high note. I'd rather have multiple teams end the season happy rather than over 100 teams be upset.

Don't punish?? How about giving some other good teams a chance to win other than the annointed two??

Originally Posted by SabresRule

If you playoff-pushers got your way, Boise State wouldn't have gotten a chance to pull off those epic trick plays against Oklahoma. And the two greatest bowl games of all time- the Texas-USC Rose Bowl from 2006 and Miami-Ohio State Fiesta Bowl from 2003? If you playoff-wishers got what you wanted, instead of those epic battles, we'd have split champions.

Wrong. Who's to say these wouldn't be early round matchups??

Originally Posted by SabresRule

2. Is a playoff system THAT more entertaining?

Yes.

Originally Posted by SabresRule

3. It would hurt rivalries. Alabama already clinched the SEC West in early-November. How fair would it have been if Bama took the foot off the gas and sat their starters the rest of the year?

Do you seriously think that would ever happen?? If you do, it's disappointing that you would think that....