I want the BCS gone. But I dont see how the BCS has anything to do with politics. If they have nothing better to do than worry about the Bcs than the USA is putting the wrong people in up there and Im a Rep. Its just not right. If they think something is wrong then by all means as a fan of football speek your mind but thats it.

I know its about 2 weeks out and eveyone is getting there test out the way. Good luck everyone hope you studys are going good. I just want to get some stuff going about the Bowl game because Im not going to be able to get on over the next few weeks.

Ron Dayne stole the Heisman that rightfully belonged to Peter Warrick.

but I am also not a fan of the playoff. I think you are going to have a much tougher time deciding who the best 8 teams are than trying to get two teams to see who is the best.

It is all semantics. I am not a law school grad (FSUn), but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once. This will never hold up in court. If somehow it did, the NCAA would probably just have to change the title of the game and winner to keep the current system. This is worse than congress getting involved with steroids in the MLB. At least with steroids, there were some legitamate law breakers and health risks involved. These are paltry attempts by our inept lawmakers to get some political notoriety. I am not suprised to see a represative from Illinois get in on this, but frankly, I expect more out of Texas. I hope these guys take a lot of heat for even wasting a second on this and that Barak takes notice, and spends his time on more pressing issues. Unfortunately the NCAA is just as political as congress, and the only the only thing that will change the current system is if a new system would line the right pockets, and especially benefit the BCS conferences.

I figured I was the only one.

they say they dont want more games because it takes away from school. That is BS. They can still have the Bowl games for the teams that didnt make it in the playoffs. and the playoffs dont have to be all that hard top8 or the +2 system. Who cares someone fix it so we can find something else to complain about.

Why is the government even getting involved? They should be worried other things, I assume.

I agree with MattDNole that there is no perfect system, but the government should not get involved at all costs.

You know what makes college football great? Knowing that every game matters, and any game can screw up someone’s season.

You know why the NFL is kind of dull? Because single games don’t matter. You can lose 7 games in a year and “win” the championship. One loss means nothing. In CFB, one loss and your title hopes are gone. This means that EVERY saturday is like a playoff, because EVERY game is a must-win.

You want CFB to become college basketball? Where the champion is just the team that played best for a couple of weeks in january? No, you make it the best team for the whole year. Did you guys like the SEC championship game? Ok, so the result wasn’t good, but the drama was great. If we have some 8 team playoff that game would mean nothing. You really think Urban would have gotten up in front of his guys saying “come on men, this is for the #2 seed!!”??

What makes college football the best sporting league in America is the regular season is so important. Making a playoff ruins this.

That is ridiculous.

College football was the first major sport in this country – it was big before CBB, before the NFL, even before MLB. It doesn’t need to conform to their setup, it’s lasted 100+ years I think it knows what it is doing!!

Do you honestly like the current system?

Is this guy really gonna go up in front of congress in the middle of bailout discussions and say “So now lets get down to business… college football…”

???

Under this Act, the FTC is empowered, among other things, to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; © prescribe trade regulation rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices; (d) conduct investigations relating to the organization, business, practices, and management of entities engaged in commerce; and (e) make reports and legislative recommendations to Congress.

And this guy is a republican? yea, he’s really bringing out their “small government” agenda.

but I haven’t seen anything proposed that I like more than the BCS. I think Texas got hosed, but I agree that a playoff would effectively kill the excitement of the regular season. I think the biggest flaw in the system is voter bias. To this day I can’t fathom how anyone values any team in the Big Ten. I think it is the most miserable conference in the world. I was rooting for Penn State to get to the Championship so that they could get embarassed by Florida.

I know I’m not the first to say this, but the BCS has become and art of scheduling and creating conference bias. I don’t know what the hell people are smoking when they chant S-E-C, because other than UF and Bama every other team looked as mediocre as any other team.

The only thought I can add to the playoff formula is a mandate that FBS teams should no longer be allowed to play FCS teams. Teams should have to play a minimum of two nonconference games against big conference teams. I think that would create a little more excitement for the regular season. There should be some sort of incentive for a conference playing exceptionally against the others; maybe an extra playoff spot or something. It might also expose some conferences such as the Big 10 for what they are; glorified women’s bbbal conferences.

I think they tried to come up with an idea to make money and see good football games. I dont want to see the bowl go but I want to see the best teams in the US to play each other in a way that there can be only one.

3 4* recruits and a 5*, Jelani Jenkins. I was expecting Jenkins. A lot of smoke was getting blown around that Jenkins was favoring PSU, and Penn State is very close to Maryland, but I never believed it. It’s really hard to imagine any elite recruit choosing to play for Paterno over Meyer.

Outside of the Super Bowl and World Series, does any other championship game/series pull higher ratings than the BCS title game? It’s an embarresment that these things are settled by writers, computers, etc. IMO, make it a 16 team playoff where the 5 main conference (Sorry Big East) champions and the 3 highest rated other conference champions get automatic bids and host a first round game, with 8 wild cards as the road teams. Ie, in a year like this

1. Oklahoma
2. UF
3. USC
4. Penn St
5. Utah
6. Boise St
7. Va tech
8. Cincinnati
9. Texas
10. Alabama
11. Texas Tech
12. Ohio St
13. Oklahoma St
14. Georgia Tech
15. Oregon
16. Georgia

I think the best legal device for effecting post-season reform would be for Congress to re-evaluate, or to threaten to re-evaluate, the merits of the NCAA’s tax exempt status — that might encourage the NCAA and the BCS to work together on reforming the post-season.

-Sports Law Professor and SI.com contributor Michael McCann

http://sports-law.blogspot.com/2008/11/president-elect-obama-and-college.html

do you want to devalue conference champions or not? If you want an 8- or 16-team playoff, then that means devaluing a conference title (not to mention the regular season) and making a handful of games at the end of the year meaningless. Imagine a hypothetical 11-0 Florida vs. 11-0 FSU game; that would have no real weight other than seeding. It would suck losing to your rival … but never fear, cause you might play them again. There would be a lot of November games that mean nothing when you play them and some earlier games that would later be rendered meaningless.

If you go the other way and hold an 8-team playoff with only conference champs (let’s say six BCS league champs and the top two non-BCS champs), then you run into the “unworthy” argument by allowing in a Cincinnati and a Va. Tech while leaving out a Texas and an Alabama. And this also would need a good non-BCS year like this one when you end up with a Utah AND a Boise State, two schools that have an argument for being included. In some years you might end up with a two-loss Tulsa team or something.

My playoff would try to find a happy medium; I would do a plus-one (a 4-team playoff), with the top four league champs according to the BCS rankings. That would mean No. 1 Oklahoma vs. No. 6 Utah in one semifinal and No. 2 Florida vs. No. 5 USC in the other (last year would have been No. 1 Ohio State vs. No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 2 LSU vs. No. 3 Va. Tech). Of course, this isn’t perfect because it leaves out Alabama and Texas, but by honoring the league champs, that is how I would keep the regular season meaningful while also having a playoff.