Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Here's to wishing...

Okay so this picture was originally made by the people at yahoo sports, and some guy wrote about it in an article that I can't seem to find. Anyway, let's talk about this. Mainly, it catches your eye with logos and what not, and everyone loves brackets.

In all seriousness, when it is presented in this format, a college football 16-team playoff seems completely within reason. I have always been in favor of the "plus one" idea, where four potential championship-caliber teams are selected for a miniature playoff, because I always thought a 16-team one would just be too many games.

But think of it this way. Say college football cuts off one non-conference game, so people don't have to complain about the players being too tired, and it will encourage teams to schedule their NC games wisely (what's up, Michigan).

I don't know if I'm completely in favor of playing the playoff games at home fields of the higher seeded teams. Yes, they do this in the lower divisions, but in the lower divisions there aren't the same gaps in programs at the top to programs at the bottom. Perennial powerhouses would be getting extra home games every year, and that means more money for the big schools to further distance themselves from the Troys and Central Floridas of the world.

Also, putting them at a neutral site can also satisy the idea of the NCAA losing sponsorship money from the BCS sponsors. Instead of the CITI Rose Bowl make it the CITI 2nd-round playoff game. To give the higher-seeded team an advantage, which they rightly deserve, allot more tickets to their school, giving them the opportunity to make the neutral site less neutral, without compromising too much.

This format rewards teams for winning their conference, which should be the biggest goal in a football season. Then, just as in college basketball, you are guaranteed a spot at the dance. And just as in college basketball, upsets would happen, but in the end I feel that the two best teams would sort themselves out and we would have a true national championship that no one could argue about. If a team isn't the best in its conference or in the top 5 otherwise, why should they have any claim to being the best team in the country?

Is this going to happen? No. But that doesn't mean I can't dream.

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