It is that time of year my fellow college sports fans. The time when teams rebel around these grand bowl games to just expand the monetary values of their colleges. It's BOWL SEASON! We all know that all these other crap ass bowl games mean nothing other then the BCS Bowl games and even some of them mean shit. Sure there are the intriguing headlines of Snead coming back to Texas with his Ole Miss squad to face off with Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl. The University of Buffalo Bulls making their first Bowl appearance in the International Bowl. Lastly a showdown of Running Back powers with Michigan State's Ringer against Georgia's Moreno in the Capital One Bowl. As for some of these other bowl games the match-ups are a waste of tv time. I for one am for a playoff system. It not only will garnish who the best team is but further give the opportunity to the Non-BCS teams. Therefore I have come up with a playoff format utilizing my poll. I have taken each of the conference champions (11) and picked at large teams (5) to fill a sixteen team playoff format. The five at large teams were picked by using the BCS standings.
My playoff tree would look something like this:
1 Oklahoma vs. 16 Troy
8 Texas Tech vs. 9 Boise State
3 Alabama vs. 14 Virginia Tech
6 Penn State vs. 11 Cincinnati
4 Texas vs. 13 East Carolina
5 USC vs. 12 TCU
2 Florida vs. 15 Buffalo
7 Utah vs. 10 Ohio State
In this playoff there would be no reseeding and follow as the bracket goes. As you can see some interesting match ups arise from the seeding. Along with this it will only take 4 weeks to play the playoffs in whole.
I for one think this would be much more exciting rather then waiting a month to get to my championship game which by that time may have lost its fire. Having a playoff will keep every fan interested week in and week out. And as for those bowl games the final 2 weeks can use those precious bowl sites. So the first week can be at the larger seeded site and quarterfinal, semifinal, and finals (7 total sites) can be played at Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Gator Bowl, Capital One Bowl.
I hope this adds to your intrigue on this Bowl Season or as I call it an expanded Exhibition Season.
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Penn state vs. Cincinnati would be a great game to watch. Pretty sweet seeing UB up there ranked among the greats.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing a playoff tree might also offer is some more opportunity for NFL scouts to measure talent. Late season playoff football has a much different dynamic: the challenge of shaking off injury and fatigue of the regular season, playing under high pressure game environments and playing in some colder conditions. It raises the bar on the necessary work ethic.
These things would all allow scouts to get a better feel for weather or not that potential draft pick will pay off in the end.
What do you think?