Unlike other sports where the exhibition season is played before the regular season starts , this is the time of the year where College football plays theirs at the end of the regular season. Can you imagine the Chargers playing Cleveland in January and the game is meaningless.
Its the time of the year when we have the ESPN commentators telling us why some of these BCS bowl games are important. If you have to try to convince me and yourself they are important, there not.
Its the time of the year where we get ESPN commentators telling us that this particular Bowl game will be huge for recruiting or its springboard game for next year. How insulting is that ? What about this year ? Can you imagine instead of a playoff game between Seattle and the Giants, that the game instead would be about " who could land the biggest Free agent next year " or this game could help us jump start for next year.
Its the time of year where we have to hear whether the teams are even motivated to play the friggin bowl game because they still might be crying about being left out of a IMPORTANT game.
Right now 3 out of 4 of these BCS games mean nothing. No reason to really watch them outside of a gambling fix. Why not play all 4 BCS games on Jan.1st where all 4 winners would advance. 6 BCS conference winners plus 2 at large teams. Leave all the rest of these Bowls alone if you really want them. To finish this season right all we would need to do is add 3 more games. 2 semis and 1 championship game. Season would extend 1 more game for 2 teams and 2 more games for 2 teams.
IMO the regular season would mean even more with just 4 BCS games as the playoff. 16 team playoff would saturate the regular season. Only sure way to get into playoff is winning your own Conference. How would that mess with the regular season ? It wouldn't !! These November games we just witnessed would have been even more important in almost every case. The Conference Championship games would have been even bigger. case in point. Va Tech-BC , OKla- MO, & even LSU-Tenn. LSU didn't know they were going to get this lucky. This BCS playoff would eliminate the Boise Sts, Auburns, and Utahs the last few years that should have had a shot instead of being awarded a consolation game. It would also weed out teams that played in Bad conferences that eventually get exposed in the big game. Ohio St last year for example. Have fun watching these games ! I'll catch up with you when Ohio St-LSU play.
Its the time of the year when we have the ESPN commentators telling us why some of these BCS bowl games are important. If you have to try to convince me and yourself they are important, there not.
Its the time of the year where we get ESPN commentators telling us that this particular Bowl game will be huge for recruiting or its springboard game for next year. How insulting is that ? What about this year ? Can you imagine instead of a playoff game between Seattle and the Giants, that the game instead would be about " who could land the biggest Free agent next year " or this game could help us jump start for next year.
Its the time of year where we have to hear whether the teams are even motivated to play the friggin bowl game because they still might be crying about being left out of a IMPORTANT game.
Right now 3 out of 4 of these BCS games mean nothing. No reason to really watch them outside of a gambling fix. Why not play all 4 BCS games on Jan.1st where all 4 winners would advance. 6 BCS conference winners plus 2 at large teams. Leave all the rest of these Bowls alone if you really want them. To finish this season right all we would need to do is add 3 more games. 2 semis and 1 championship game. Season would extend 1 more game for 2 teams and 2 more games for 2 teams.
IMO the regular season would mean even more with just 4 BCS games as the playoff. 16 team playoff would saturate the regular season. Only sure way to get into playoff is winning your own Conference. How would that mess with the regular season ? It wouldn't !! These November games we just witnessed would have been even more important in almost every case. The Conference Championship games would have been even bigger. case in point. Va Tech-BC , OKla- MO, & even LSU-Tenn. LSU didn't know they were going to get this lucky. This BCS playoff would eliminate the Boise Sts, Auburns, and Utahs the last few years that should have had a shot instead of being awarded a consolation game. It would also weed out teams that played in Bad conferences that eventually get exposed in the big game. Ohio St last year for example. Have fun watching these games ! I'll catch up with you when Ohio St-LSU play.
