should college football have a playoff!?

Answer 1

No college football does not need a playoff system. Imagine an 8 team playoff system ran with the top 8 teams making it. Well this year i believe there were 25 one loss teams and two undefeated. So we take the undefeated and put them in, so we are left with 6 spots with 25 teams competing, much controversy would arise in that aspect. Now say you went by conference champs, how would the likes of a Tulane vs USC sound as a first round game? Not too good. Plus what about throwing Notre Dame in there since they are Independent? Too much controversy that way and too complicated of a system.
So, what about a 16 team playoff system that seems to be used. O wait one second. The majority of atheletes drafted into the NFL are in D-1A, so why have them play that many games more in major attempt to possibly shorten their career as potential stars in a much more massive environment? It would be idiotic to consider these kids to play that many games, maintain grades, and focus on their future as far as football goes.
Now then what happens to the tradition of the great Rose Bowl, the supposed "grandaddy of them all". That title would surely be lost and forgotten. Bowl games have history, the BCS formula is only a mess due to the fact that fans always feel that their team deserves a chance. Boise State went undefeated, great job, but they don't deserve a national title. Imagine Florida or Ohio State playing them. Oh wait, what about USC getting a share because they played in a completely different game, environment, and team. It's #1 vs #2, like it or not, root for your team and enjoy the success they had. Plus college ball is mostly about developing into the pro level. Not to scream and shout at the schools and programs making money and putting it right back into the student athletes and helping out their conferences to maintain a great atmosphere. Forget gaining money to increase the education across all of the campuses. I guess we should just worry about the one sport that so many watch.


By the way, signing an online document will not do anything. In order to persuade the masses at the schools and conference leaders, then you actually have to turn your TV off when these games are in play. You have to actually not go down and purchase tickets to watch these games. You have to sit down and never discuss the game. Make and force profits to go down, not trash and bash it, then have several million people watch it on television, or have the hundred thousand people at the game.

Answer 2

This question is asked every year and the answer is if you want to crown a true national champion, football needs a playoff like every other college sport. If last night's game isn't enough evidence of why a playoff is needed, look at USC over Michigan or Boise State over Oklahoma. When you actually match two teams up, you never can predict the outcome. The "experts" were proven wrong again last night. I need not point out that since the Bowl Championship Game started nine years ago between the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the country, the #2 has won seven times out of the nine.

Answer 3

If you need proof that a play-off is completely unnecessary, look no further than last night. Or last years's USC/Texas classic. Or, pretty much, any BCS Championship game. No major sport does more to assure that its championship game (or series) features the two best teams, thus ensuring that the Champion is the best team of the year. Were the St. Louis Cardinals the best team in baseball this year? Not even close. Twelve teams won more games than the Cards. Were the Steelers the best team in the NFL last year? No way; they didn't even finish 1st in their 4 team division. Was George Mason one of the four best teams in college hoops last year (or was Florida the best)? Nope. Duke and UConn were.

When you have a tournament, the winner can claim only to have been the best team in the tournament. Period. Not the best team of the year.

Florida was the best team this year. They won the toughest conference, lost only one game (and to a legit team) and totally wrecked the number one, undefeated, Heisman trophy toting powerhouse with the whole country watching.

An NCAA play-off only mucks it up. Under any guise -- 4-team, 8-team,16-team (god forbid - BYU-Rutgers anyone?) or "plus-one" -- a play-off serves only to move the same old argument down the line. We argued over who was number 2, Florida or Michigan (although we nailed that one, didn't we), and in, say a 4-team playoff, we'd simply move the same darn argument down to who is #4, and the #5 team gets all bent out of shape. And, by the way, would you choose 2-loss USC or undefeated Boise? See? Same argument, just lower. Eight team playoff? Would you take 2-loss Michigan or 2-loss Auburn? And, by the way, why is any 2-loss team claiming they have a right to be called the best anyway? Who is running around campus cheering "We are Number 8!!!!"

With an 8-team play-off this year, we could have had a Louisville-Wisconsin championship game. You want that? Don't believe me? Maybe you missed the Cardinal-Tiger World Series. Or slept through it.

The Plus One is equally ridiculous. Florida pounded OSU last night. Do-over? Why should OSU get another chance? They had their chance and lost. But they are still the second best team in the country, right? Or does Ohio State actually move down to number 3 so that LSU -- who already lost to Florida and didn't even make their conference championship -- get another crack at the Gators?

The two best teams in college football played last night. Florida won. They are the Champions. Let it rest.

Answer 4

The word from the football guru's that run the collegiate game say, "it's not needed." The attendance from year to year increases regardless of not having a playoff at the end. Each school garners 50% of the payout for the bowl game they're invited. If a playoff system were to be put in place, each school would have to share the revenue with the other schools in the playoffs. No school wants that, so unfortunately, we won't have collegiate playoffs any time soon. Sorry for the reality check.

Fight On!!!!

Answer 5

Besides NCAA regular 119 D1 teams does D2 also have a college playoff system? I truly think this would make teams better and stop beating on the little schools every year. This is the perfect time for them to be playing and be finished by Jan. after that they should award any trophys to the best players like they always do.

Answer 6

yup, take the 8 bcs bowl teams, ACC SEC Big Ten Big East, Pac 10 and Big 12, then take your two at large teams, and have an 8 team play off, ive never heard a debate about national championships that includes a team that didnt make a bcs bowl....take that group and let em play and then crown the champ...it becomes more and more obvious every year that the BCS sucks and the big shots that cant see that are just money grabbers

Answer 7

yes yes yes yes yes, More than one bracket so the smalller conferences can get in and the big one would have all of the big conferences and two at large spots. about the same amount of games, and no 51 day breaks between games.(Ohio State 2006-2007)

Answer 8

What more evidence do we need than this year? We all clearly know Florida isn't the best team in the county.