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And create a homefield advantage for presumably the top teams. You might as well take the teams that will have homefield anyway and put them in the championship, since chances are that's gonna happen anyway. correct. you award the BCS 1-4 with homefield advantage. Sorta like every other sport on the planet Then 1-4 will likely win the first round. 1-2 will have a huge advantage in the 2nd round. Why waste time, and just put 1-2 in a championship game? And the every other sport argument doesn't apply to college football, you have 109 teams vying for 8 spots and most of those teams don't play each other or even all the teams in their conference. actually, it's 120 teams. How is homefield unfair in CFB but not the NFL? I never said it was unfair. It's just pointless. If you are gonna give an advantage to the top teams, why not just go with the top teams like you already are with the BCS championship game? It's clear the point of having a tournament format in college football is to get a clear cut champions. It's not clear cut, when it's not a neutral playing field. The NFL again is a different beast, because of the number of teams. NOT playing 108 teams of your competition is a lot different from NOT playing 19 (that goes to 7 if you consider conferences, which should be considered because the AFC can't play the NFC until the SB).

And on the other hand, I'm not convinced a longer tournament is going to solve anything. There will still be controversy. And quite frankly, I don't go into college football season dying to know who the national champ is going to be. I just love watching college football games. I know it's against accepted behavior, but I think the NCAA tourney is an unwieldy beast of a joke that doesn't come close to rewarding the best team in basketball. Sure it plays well on tv and is a cultural icon, but it's not the greatest thing out there. I'm the same way with NFL overtime whining. Why anybody thinks the college way is the right way is beyond me. If you don't win in the first 60 minutes, and you lose without getting a chance in OT, too freaking bad. You should have scored more when you had the chance. If you lose an early college season game and get left out of the hunt despite thinking you are the best team, oh well, don't lose next time. Championships don't really crown the best team, they crown the winner of a handful of games at most. It's awesome to win one and sucks when you lose, I'm not claiming otherwise. But the fact is that no matter the system, people are always going to be clamoring for it to be changed. I'd rather enjoy watching the games. Basically how I feel, which is why I am arguing the way I am. Except the NCAA tourney is the greatest thing. And the reason the NCAA tourney is the greatest thing is for the exact reason that goony is describing. Who wins the NCAA tourney is a secondary concern The greatest part of the tournament (and the conference tournaments) is that there are lots of fun games to watch going on at the same time, and that creates many close finishes. The first 4 days of the tournament are the absolute best, as it goes on the tournament becomes less interesting. Well we both got 2 different things out of that.

And create a homefield advantage for presumably the top teams. You might as well take the teams that will have homefield anyway and put them in the championship, since chances are that's gonna happen anyway. correct. you award the BCS 1-4 with homefield advantage. Sorta like every other sport on the planet Then 1-4 will likely win the first round. 1-2 will have a huge advantage in the 2nd round. Why waste time, and just put 1-2 in a championship game? And the every other sport argument doesn't apply to college football, you have 109 teams vying for 8 spots and most of those teams don't play each other or even all the teams in their conference.

And create a homefield advantage for presumably the top teams. You might as well take the teams that will have homefield anyway and put them in the championship, since chances are that's gonna happen anyway.

And on the other hand, I'm not convinced a longer tournament is going to solve anything. There will still be controversy. And quite frankly, I don't go into college football season dying to know who the national champ is going to be. I just love watching college football games. I know it's against accepted behavior, but I think the NCAA tourney is an unwieldy beast of a joke that doesn't come close to rewarding the best team in basketball. Sure it plays well on tv and is a cultural icon, but it's not the greatest thing out there. I'm the same way with NFL overtime whining. Why anybody thinks the college way is the right way is beyond me. If you don't win in the first 60 minutes, and you lose without getting a chance in OT, too freaking bad. You should have scored more when you had the chance. If you lose an early college season game and get left out of the hunt despite thinking you are the best team, oh well, don't lose next time. Championships don't really crown the best team, they crown the winner of a handful of games at most. It's awesome to win one and sucks when you lose, I'm not claiming otherwise. But the fact is that no matter the system, people are always going to be clamoring for it to be changed. I'd rather enjoy watching the games. Basically how I feel, which is why I am arguing the way I am. Except the NCAA tourney is the greatest thing.

I really don't think it makes a difference. Some high school teams play that long. Basketball encompasses almost the entire school year. You're asking a handful of student athletes to play a few more weekend games. In what state? Most states play their state championship Thanksgiving weekend. Basketball is a totally different animal. NBA plays 82 games, plus playoffs. NCAA plays 40 if you're lucky enough go deep in pre-and post season tourneys. This scenario would have college players playing 14-15 games, to the NFLs 16. Some states play TDay weekend, others just begin that weekend. There's no rhyme or reason to your numbers there, but if you are going to be fair, you should talk about the 4 preseason NFL games and 3-4 playoff games. NFL players are asked to play 23-24 games in a year. You mean the 4 preseason games in which starters typically play the equivalent of 1 game? Also, of the 12 playoff teams, 8 rested their starters for at least a 1/2 the last week of the season. NE and NYG would have had the Patriots had 1 loss. College doesn't have that luxury.

It's not about being dangerous, I've never said anything to that effect, except to shoot down the comparison w/ basketball. It's still asking amateur athletes to pratice 2 more weeks, to travel 2 more times, and still expect them to be a college student. Again the NFL only plays 16. No other college sport plays that many games compared to its professional counterparts.

Bucs are going to shock everyone and beat the Gnats. Tiki's unloading every bit of knowledge he knows to Ronde even as we speak. There's my bold prediction for the week. I'm prepared for the proverbial egg on my face come weekend :) I'm fairly surprised how many people are picking the Giants. It's still Eli on the road in a playoff game. They are coming off a hard fought battle that they lost against the Patriots, and teams have had a tough go playing the week after losing to New England this year. I just hope Jacksonville wins and beats up on New England in round 2. Even if they lose, I hope they hurt the Patriots. Eli has been better on the road. I think that has a lot to do with it. For someone who wanted to play in NY, he doesn't seem like he can handle it.

I really don't think it makes a difference. Some high school teams play that long. Basketball encompasses almost the entire school year. You're asking a handful of student athletes to play a few more weekend games. In what state? Most states play their state championship Thanksgiving weekend. Basketball is a totally different animal. NBA plays 82 games, plus playoffs. NCAA plays 40 if you're lucky enough go deep in pre-and post season tourneys. This scenario would have college players playing 14-15 games, to the NFLs 16.

When they start allowing basketball players to run full speed into each other violently and still play 2-3 games a week, then they will.

not if you cut out one game the top teams play against garbage teams. and if they didn't break for six weeks after the end of the regular season, they wouldn't have to play so late. Still, you have a 14-15 game season. And then you have players playing into finals week.

This would be my lineup. Gives the best 4 players the most ABs throughout the course of the season. I'd lean that way as well, but I think I'd prefer Pie in the 7 spot with Theriot 8. I don't feel comfortable introducing a hitter like Pie into the lineup just before the pitcher. Yeah, that may be my only change as well.

What about the fact that you are asking 18-22 year olds STUDENTS to play 3 games in addition to the 12 regular season games, and possibly a conference championship game? They'd be playing way into January. If you cut out regular season games, then you lose some of what determines the top 8 teams.

This would be my lineup. Gives the best 4 players the most ABs throughout the course of the season.

Where's the Big East?

I'm not arguing against a playoff system, but I also don't agree that it's the end-all-be-all of colllege football. How many teams have had a legit gripe since the BCS that they haven't played for the title? It has, for the most, part done its job.

FWIW, even an 8-team tourney would have controversy. As I see it, Ohio St., LSU, USC, Mizzou, Georgia, WVU, Oklahoma, Kansas, Virginia Tech, and yes, Hawaii were all worthy to be in an 8-team tournament. Which 2 teams do you kick out, without knowing any of the results of the BCS games so far?

WVU is gonna hire that dude that coached them last night at a press conference today.

It's not a road upset. They dominated Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh 3 weeks ago. And the Jags are actually favored by 2. Steelers have way too many OL injuries, are missing their best run defender, and their DBs stink. Jacksonville could win by double digits.

San Diego better not lose another home playoff game. Seattle Jacksonville San Diego I'm leaning toward the Giants in the other game, but this game's really hard to call. Tampa's the only playoff team I haven't seen play a single down all year.

Sampson was easily outcoached. You have DJ White against a front court he should dominate, but he kept getting the ball 15 feet from the rim. If he has to put the ball on the floor to get his shot, it's not a good thing. Defensively, IU played dumb. We have great individual defenders, but horrible team defense. Nobody knows how to help on a screen-and-roll. They double down on the post just enough to not make it difficult on the post player while at the same time allowing their man enough room to knock down a jumper if the post player passes out of the weak DT. Still a solid win. And as I said at the beginning of the year, Jamarcus Ellis (JC player of the year) will be the most important player in Big Ten play for IU. 15 points, 7 rebs, 7 assts, with 1 TO and 5 steals. He also held Johnson pretty well, until the 15 late points.

Illinois and Hawaii should not have been in BCS bowls. Teams ranked in the teens don't deserve a top tier bowl. Who would have taken over them? Mizzou? And who else?

Man, if the BCS just tried to get the best matchups rather than keeping the conferences in order. USC/Georgia Illinois/Hawaii Would have been great games.

God am I ready for the conference play to start. As much as I'm glad IU got away from the obscenely difficult pre-conference schedule they had a few years back, this year was almost too easy, IMO. Boooring... I'm ready to see some real games, particularly on the road. 3 out of 4 to start. I like that all are winnable, but will be a good test for a team that has only played 1 true road game to this point.

Georgia will be a preseason top 5...guarantee it. Georgia/Texas was my debate for the final spot.