Not being a college football fan, I can't help but laugh at what has happened with the BCS in the last 5 years. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, short of every team losing 6 and every team winning 6.
I can understand why they'd want to hang onto the current bowl format (the fuckin' money, dood) but it's a failed system and:
- 81.2% of 206,420 voters on ESPN.com say the best two teams won't be playing in the national championship (which I disagree with but shows you the absolute pessimism fans have with the system),
- 85.5% of voters say there should be a playoff,
- 79.8% of voters don't think it would diminish the regular season at all,
- 66.4% of voters don't think the non-playoff bowl games would be any less important (and we all know they're not important to begin with, since they never have anything to do with deciding the national championship),
- 63.7% of voters think a college football playoff would be more exciting than March Madness (which is very astute, IMO), and
- 58.8% of voters call the current situation a "joke and an embarassment".
Unfortunately, I don't think a playoff will happen anytime soon. Like I said, there's big money in corporations having fans thinking their game is important and I don't think that same sort of thing translates well into a 4-or-so-game playoff.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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