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2011 College Football: Occupy GameDay!

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bigmrg74 said:
The BCS is nothing more than a fat fisted money grab. If it was all about finding the best two teams and having them settle it on the field, there would be a sixteen team playoff.

Oh, I'm sure they'll figure out that there would be plenty of money to be had between both teams to play an annual game between each other. As per SEC rules, Kansas could be one of their allotted cupcakes to eat to fatten up their schedule. ;)
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The hard part with the playoff system, is you lose the histroy of the bowls, which are a huge part of college football.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
You don't lose them though. The teams not in the playoff are free to go to a bowl game.
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And you can make the big bowls mean something again. Quick, tell me who won the Orange Bowl last year. The Fiesta Bowl two years ago.

Integrate (I know that's a foreign concept in the SEC) the major bowls into a playoff system. Rotate the championship just as you do now. For example, the semi-finals would be the Fiesta Bowl and the Orange Bowl with the Sugar Bowl hosting the title game. Rotate it next year. Rotate in the Rose if they want, otherwise they can maintain their Integer/Pac-12 tradition (assuming neither is in the BCS).

There are ways to make it work. There are a handful of very powerful people who don't want it to work that will prevent it from happening.
 
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MavHockey14 said:
The hard part with the playoff system, is you lose the histroy of the bowls, which are a huge part of college football.
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I used to worry about this, but the history of the bowls has already largely been thrown out the window with the BCS system. The Rose Bowl's connection to the Pac 12 and Big Ten was significantly reduced the first time a team from elsewhere went to the Rose Bowl and has been further undermined each subsequent time this has happened. I'm not that worried now about if the bowls go under or are somehow worked into a playoff system or whatever.
 
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MavHockey14 said:
The hard part with the playoff system, is you lose the histroy of the bowls, which are a huge part of college football.
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I know! The Big 8 champion in the Orange Bowl...the SWC in the Cotton Bowl.

Oh, that doesn't happen anymore? The only bowls holding on to any sort of tradition is the Sugar and Rose at this point, barely. Every other one is already dead.
 
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Bob Gray said:
I used to worry about this, but the history of the bowls has already largely been thrown out the window with the BCS system. The Rose Bowl's connection to the Pac 12 and Big Ten was significantly reduced the first time a team from elsewhere went to the Rose Bowl and has been further undermined each subsequent time this has happened. I'm not that worried now about if the bowls go under or are somehow worked into a playoff system or whatever.
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Like last year's "first non-AQ ranked in the top X for the years 201X to 201Y gets in the Rose Bowl if the Pac10 champ is in the NC" awesome rule.

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Wow, Lynah wrote the same thing I did :p
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Ooops, one of his old posts keeps showing up in my Quick Reply for some reason.
 
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Bob Gray said:
I used to worry about this, but the history of the bowls has already largely been thrown out the window with the BCS system. The Rose Bowl's connection to the Pac 12 and Big Ten was significantly reduced the first time a team from elsewhere went to the Rose Bowl and has been further undermined each subsequent time this has happened. I'm not that worried now about if the bowls go under or are somehow worked into a playoff system or whatever.
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No reason we couldn't go back though. This could just be remembered as an unfortunate phase, like steroids, astroturf and the designated hitter.
 
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Kepler said:
No reason we couldn't go back though. This could just be remembered as an unfortunate phase, like steroids, astroturf and the designated hitter.
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We can dream, but there's no way this gets dialed back to the old bowl system. I used to say I'd like to see that, but I realize that it isn't happening. A playoff is a more viable possibility to get rid of the BCS, which is the worst of both possible systems.
 
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French Rage said:
Like last year's "first non-AQ ranked in the top X for the years 201X to 201Y gets in the Rose Bowl if the Pac10 champ is in the NC" awesome rule.
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Didn't even know about that one. Not surprised though.
 
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Bob Gray said:
We can dream, but there's no way this gets dialed back to the old bowl system. I used to say I'd like to see that, but I realize that it isn't happening. A playoff is a more viable possibility to get rid of the BCS, which is the worst of both possible systems.
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I agree we will not go back. That doesn't stop me from wishing for it. See also: girls wearing poodle skirts.

In other news, the denial on Finebaum is as wonderful as one would expect.
 
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With the caveat that I was pretty young when the BCS first came about, I have utterly no desire to see college football go back to the bowl system. And I hate the BCS.
 
WeWantMore said:
With the caveat that I was pretty young when the BCS first came about, I have utterly no desire to see college football go back to the bowl system. And I hate the BCS.
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For me, I've been watching the Hawkeyes since age 3, but really understanding that the goal every year is to win the Big Ten and get to Pasadena at about age 8. Really I know nothing different then wanting the team to make the Rose Bowl.

I don't know, once a playoff system was set up and in effect for a few years, I definitely could see it being very positive for College Football.
 
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Bob Gray said:
We can dream, but there's no way this gets dialed back to the old bowl system. I used to say I'd like to see that, but I realize that it isn't happening. A playoff is a more viable possibility to get rid of the BCS, which is the worst of both possible systems.
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Yeah, it should either be the old way which has history or a playoff which actually makes sense, but right now it's taking the worst of each and putting them together, much like how seltzer water lacks the flavor of soda and the thirst quenching of regular water.
 
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