Running bowl thread

Exams? FCS does it, no reason FBS can't. The regular season bleeds into exams at some schools as it stands now anyway.

Sanctity of the bowls? That train has long since left the station.

I have no problem with playoff "losers" going on to play in an additional bowl game. It's analogous to UEFA Champions League teams dropping into the UEFA Cup (or Europa League or whatever it's called now) in European soccer.

 

I know. It wasn't directed at you, just at your arguments.

 

I didn't say anything like that. What I said, pretty clearly in fact, was that it's ridiculous for you to make a definitive statement that "there's no fucking way those Horned Fuckers could fucking score 34 fucking points on Iowa, and anybody who thinks they could is a fucking idiot." It was a simple disagreement, and then you act like you know fucking everything. I was just pointing out that there were plenty of people making the same type statement about Alabama's offense and Florida's defense two days ago, and look what happened.

I don't know if TCU could score 34 on Iowa. I've seen Iowa play two quarters of football this year. I've seen TCU play two games. I really don't give a shit, either.

 

Then shut the fuck up then.

 

See, I agree to that to some extent except for a very good one loss team like FLorida who only lost to Alabama. But that has more to do with dumb conference championship games. Either the PAC-10 and Big 10 need to get them or all the conferences should do away with them.

 

Michigan scored 28 on Iowa on the road in 15 degree weather after having 5 turnovers. TCU could hang 34.

 

A 16 team playoff would be absurd. CMU and Troy? CMU lost to Arizona and BC... they have no business there, niether does ECU... or Troy, 2-loss Iowa, VT, GT...

 

Next time I ask a question, I'll limit the words to four letters each.

 

I agree but the people who are proposing these things on this thread are right - it would never fly unless you made room for at least the conference champs of every conference, no matter how shitty.

 

If there is going to be an NCAA-sanctioned playoff, there will have to be an automatic bid for each I-A Conference Champion, including the Sun Belt. That's just how it is. Will it be a waste of time for #1 Alabama to play #16 seed Troy State in the first round? Yeah. But no more so than for a #1 seed to play a #16 seed in the basketball tournament.

So you have 16 teams - 11 automatic bids and 5 at-large bids. Boise State and TCU still would have been in. Unless Notre Dame were willing to join a conference, they'd have to do well enough to earn an at-large bid in order to get in.

Here is what you do:

1. Mandate that the regular season, including all "rivalry games" (Bama-Auburn, Texas-Texas A&M, etc.) be finished by the weekend before Thanksgiving.

2. Conference Championship Games on Thanksgiving Weekend.

3. Tourney Selection Show at 8 p.m. ET on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, after that day's NFL games.

4. First round games at higher seed the first Saturday of December

5. Quarterfinal games at higher seed the second Saturday of December

6. The day after the quarterfinal games, announce the matchups for any remaining bowl games, which can choose between the eligible teams that didn't qualify for the NCAA tourney and the ones that were eliminated in the first two rounds of the tourney.

7. The four current BCS bowl games, on a four-year rotation, will host one of the two semifinal games and the championship game. IE, in every four-year period, each bowl will host two semifinals and the championship and have one year where it doesn't host either.

8. Semifinals on New Year's Day at 4:30 p.m. ET and 8:00 p.m. ET

9. Championship on January 7 or 8 (if the 7th is a Saturday) at 8:00 p.m. ET