Posted by rcpweiner at 208.13.94.3 on December 09, 2003 at 16:38:12:
In Reply to: playoffs in college football are self-defeating posted by Xtian on December 09, 2003 at 16:32:39:
: perhaps some folx want to crown a #1 team, butsits really about the amount of money a school can rake in with a bowl appearance, *any* bowl appearance.
: the fans may want a #1, the players may want a #1, but the schools only want to get paid, and as long as their isnt a playoff in college football, more of them will.
Let everyone else have their "bowls" ... but you take the top 4 teams (I know some people are going to say that number 5 will be crying then ...) and have a two-game playoff.
Like it is this year.
Winner of Rose Bowl (USC vs. Michigan)
vs.
Winner of Sugar Bowl (LSU vs. Oklahoma)
for the title.
I mean, it's an extra week ... and they have a whole month of preparations right now for the bowl games ... so you move up the Rose and Sugar Bowl up a week and have the championship at the beginning of January.
It's common sense ... even WWF uses a playoff system now and then.