Re: This season has just confirmed that it's time for a

legitimate (16 team) playoff in college football. We have a system of choosing a championship game that often rewards losing and punishes wins. And 2/3 of that system is based on a human polling system so corrupted with politics that they are now (like last year) choosing a NCG based on who they want to see play and not who they believe the two best teams are.

We have an Oregon team who lost by a FG in OT to a very good Stanford team behind UF who has struggled against TERRIBLE non-conference competition at home all year. I'd take Oregon over Bama, UGAy, and UF any day of the week.

Does anyone sit at home in April and say "hmmm, you know, UK may not have been the best team last year... if only UConn had been voted higher in the polls then we'd really know."

The only way to take the politics, counter-intuitive computer-formulated minutiae, and doubt out of the championship is to let it be decided the right way--on the field.

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I guess I don't think any system will be perfect...

Nov 19, 2012, 12:08 AM

at least not according to everybody. The BCS seems idiotic because there are 117 teams who much be ranked in order to decide who gets to play for the national championship. The BCS, at least, ensures that the number 1 and 2 teams play eachother at the end of they year. But the real problem is the rankings and the fact that you simply couldn't extend the season in order to let enough teams participate to have a true playoff.

It's probably true that a team left out of the field of 64 wouldn't win it all, but remember that many of those teams are "at-large" types that would be seeded between 7 and 12. Those are usually pretty good teams, but they're not teams ranked in the top 25. In the football playoff, all the teams would be top 25 teams. There's not usually much difference between teams ranked 10-16 in terms of record. and there will be a number of teams with similar records and resumes to 13-16 ranked teams. Right now, 13- 16 are: OU, Nebraska, Ore St, and Texas. 17- 21 are UCLA, Rutgers, Michigan, Louisville and OSU. I think any of those teams could, on a given day, beat most of the top 5 teams (especially UGa, Florida, ND, or KSt.). And if those teams have no chance, then why not just trust the rankings like we already do?

The point is, there will be just as much, if not more, controversy as there was before. The only difference is, teams with 2-3 losses will now have a chance at a natty champ instead of being completely left out.