Why doesn't college football have playoffs like the NFL?

Question

The points system is the worst way to pick the top 25. A team can go undefeated all year and still not make the championship game.

Answer 1

Jim Delaney is the man responsible for the lack of a playoff system. He is the Comissioner of the Big Ten Conference and he may be the most powerful man in college Athletics. As long as people continue to watch the rose bowl and the rose bowl continues to be the most profitable bowl game, we will not have a college playoff system. By the way in case you didnt know, the rose bowl almost always has a big ten team in it, which happens to be the conference Mr Delaney is commissioner for. Also notice how Non-BCS schools like utah and Boise state can never get into the rose bowl, cause if they do play ratings could slip and that mean less money for the big ten conference. Also Im not 100% sure on this but has a big ten school ever been left out of the championship game when they had a legitimate claim at a shot, i dont think so. If you want to read the article its below. But as long as Delaney is around, and as long as the rose bowl is profitable, we will not have a playoff system in college.

So if you want a playoff system, the best thing you can do is not support big ten football, which is difficult considering teams like ohio state, michigan, Penn state, and other great schools are in the big ten. And Not watch the Rose Bowl.

Answer 2

You know its all about the $$$. I think a playoff system would do alot of teams good, like last years USC and Boise State. They should instead make it the top 24 and have like a march madness type deal, but it would be called December Madness (not really). Because lets face it, nobody cares about any of the Bowl games besides the National Championship. Also, it would get people excited for the National Title game, because youd get to see so much more of the teams and you wouldnt know whos in it until the divisional championship games. Also, it would do the teams in the Championship game good by not giving them a friggin 52 day break (ahem ahem, Big Ten Scheduling Commitee). It would get more viewers, and would make the Cinderella stories that much better, after going through all the rounds of play, and making the championship. They should start the tournament a week after the last team has played its last game, and go until the Championship. Then, right after an exhilirating month of College Football, you get to watch the NFL Playoffs. Theyd get so many viewers because more people are home from work and school during December, and they could even have a Christmas Bowl (or a Holiday Bowl, because I remembered you cant show any signs of any religious affiliation at all whatsoever in America, or else you get sued). Someone from NCAA should read that.

Answer 3

All4Sports has it right, its all about the money. A team from a conference like the WAC can go undefeated and might have earned a shot at the National Title, but NCAA football is just as much of a business as the NFL. Putting that WAC team in the National Championship game is going to get the NCAA the revenue that they would get from putting say a 1-loss Ohio State, Oklahoma, or other powerhouse football program. They don't do the playoffs because they say the season would be too long, but I personally would like to see playoffs instead of the BCS.

Answer 4

Simple. The college presidents don't want a playoff. The use the bowl games as a way to make money and if they allow a playoff, the bowl games will be irrelevant. That means, instead of about 50 or more teams (Depending Upon the Number of Bowl Games that Year) getting money, only the ones in the playoff series would, which would be about 16 teams.

Answer 5

That's a damn good question. They've been talking about switching to a playoff system for quite some time now. That would definitely quiet alot of critics. I know alot of people that felt that USC should have been in the title game last year. A playoff system between at least the top 10 teams is surely a good idea.

Answer 6

this is why...

if we have a playoff in the NCAA it will go until end of january, yes? this playoff system which adds 2, 3, 4 games depending on how they would structure it onto the regular season which would exhaust those players. the players then go right into preparing for the combine. after the combine they continue to work out and head into spring training. after spring training they are dead exhausted and can not perform at the best of their ability. we would no longer have rookies as great as Devin Hester, Reggie Bush, or Vince Young were this year. And then after the long NFL season (longer than the NCAA season) they players are even more exhausted.

and that my friend, is why there is no playoffs. oh and because the BCS is horrible.

Answer 7

JIM DELANEY IS THE REASON COLLEGE DOESN'T HAVE A PLAY-OFF SYSTEM. REMEMBER, THAT TWO OF THE SCHOOLS FROM HIS CONFERENCE ALMOST MADE IT TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. THE TWO TEAMS THAT BOTH GOT TAKEN BEHIND THE WOODSHED AND HANDED A BEAT-DOWN. A TENTH OF A POINT KEPT HIS TEAMS FROM FACING OFF AGAIN. KUDOS TO BOISE ST., BUT THEY WERE ONLY GOOD ENOUGH TO BEAT ONE , MAYBE TWO TOP OPPONENTS. THEY COULDN'T HANDLE A SEC SCHEDULE LIKE FLORIDA DID. THINK.... AUBURN, LSU, TENNESSEE, ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, SOUTH CAROLINA, ALABAMA, AND GEORGIA? IF YOU THINK TAKING DOWN OKLAHOMA MEANT SOMETHING, THEN YOU MUST NOT HAVE WATCHED ONE OF THEIR GAMES THIS SEASON. THEY DIDN'T DESERVE TO PLAY IN A BCS GAME. BESIDES, IF THERE WAS A PLAYOFF, THEN IT WOULDN'T MATTER IF ANYBODY WAS UNDEFEATED. AND YOU WOULD STILL COMPLAIN THAT SOME WAC OR CONFERENCE USA TEAM DIDN'T MAKE THE PLAYOFFS.

Answer 8

Im saying the same thing. Like Boise St. was the only team to stay underfeated and win a title game and will come in next year ranked #4 or # 5. While they kept winning and OSU kept better teams that were no way close to their game, Boise St. should come before them. The nation title game should be against the two underfeated team before the title games.

Answer 9

Money is the answer to most questions related to sports, or most other things. The bowls make money and are not willing to change. They give money to the schools, who share it with the other schools in their conferences. A play off would be easy but some of the bowls would lose their profits.

Answer 10

The bowl's bring way too much corporate money into the NCAA for them to change their ways. I know it sucks and no one really likes it the way it is, but it will not change. At least until they can find a way to come up with the rest of the money.