College Playoff

[MililaniBuckeye]

"And if there were a playoff, LSU would have been at [top-ranked] Ohio State. The game probably would have been played in Cleveland."

Why in the fuck would it be played in Cleveland? Did they recently up their capacity to more than 105,500?

 

[HailToMichigan]

House lawmakers pass resolution, send it to Senate

ATLANTA (AP) -- The Georgia House voted 151-9 Friday in favor of a resolution urging the NCAA to create a playoff system for college football.
"The only major sporting event without a playoff system to identify its true champion that I know of is NCAA Division 1 football," said state Rep. Quincy Murphy, D-Augusta.
Georgia was ranked fourth in the BCS entering the last week of the season, behind Missouri, West Virginia and Ohio State. When Missouri and West Virginia lost, Georgia did not rise to second behind Ohio State but dropped to fifth in the BCS. Southeastern Conference champion LSU vaulted from seventh to second.
The Bulldogs went on to rout previously undefeated Hawaii 41-10 in the Sugar Bowl.
The resolution, which now goes to the Senate, calls the BCS system "the greatest disappointment of the 2007 college football season."

Entire article: SI.com - NCAA Football - Ga. House*calls for*college football playoff - Friday February 1, 2008 2:41PM

Having solved the problems of poverty, crime, and education in the state of Georgia, and balanced the budget for the next fifteen years, the state legislature turns its attention to what's really important: Making sure UGA never has such a horrible, unspeakable travesty happen to them ever again.

 

[methomps]

Having solved the problems of poverty, crime, and education in the state of Georgia, and balanced the budget for the next fifteen years, the state legislature turns its attention to what's really important: Making sure UGA never has such a horrible, unspeakable travesty happen to them ever again.

College football is big business.

 

[Sportsbuck28]

ESPN

[sarcasm]According to recent reports, the NCAA and the SEC have come to an agreement over allowing a playoff system to take place. The 12-team Southeastern Conference will play a playoff on it's own to decide the national champion, since they are so much better than everyone else, while the rest of the country will continue to play meaningless bowl games due to the fact that they simply cannot match the awesomeness of the SEC. And in other news, it's been decided that the national champion of the piss-poor conferences (I.E. non-SEC) will be ranked behind the worst SEC team due to the fact that the worst SEC team can beat the best team, from any other conference. Mark May will be on hand at the SEC's national championship game to suck the dick of the winner of the game.[/sarcasm]

 

[billmac91]

I'm not as mean to the Irish fans as I used to be. Don't know what's gotten into me. Must be an age thing. But I really, really wish they would stop considering a close loss to USC as a great victory. Losses are never victories, ever, not even once. It brings me back to that sad day when Gordon Gee considered a tie with UM as one of our greatest victories. I really like Gee, but not at that moment.

I genereally like Gee too, but more recently am completely embarrassed by his stance on a college playoff. Makes the Big 10 look bad, and makes tOSU look especially bad.

This probably belongs in another thread, but thought of that as I read the quoted post.

 

[sandgk]

I genereally like Gee too, but more recently am completely embarrassed by his stance on a college playoff. Makes the Big 10 look bad, and makes tOSU look especially bad.

This probably belongs in another thread, but thought of that as I read the quoted post.

You can count the BCS / FCS college presidents in favor of a playoff using one hand - and not all the fingers.

Gee is in the overwhelming majority - the playoff proponent College Presidents are Florida last year, Georgia this year and - next? Oh, and once Florida made it to the BCS Championship Florida's President changed his tune.

Gee doesn't look any worse than 110+ of his peers - let us not confuse that with the media asking his opinion and then using that against him and The Ohio State University, even if you personally favor a playoff.

 

[billmac91]

You can count the BCS / FCS college presidents in favor of a playoff using one hand - and not all the fingers.

Gee is in the overwhelming majority - the playoff proponent College Presidents are Florida last year, Georgia this year and - next? Oh, and once Florida made it to the BCS Championship Florida's President changed his tune.

Gee doesn't look any worse than 110+ of his peers - let us not confuse that with the media asking his opinion and then using that against him and The Ohio State University, even if you personally favor a playoff.

I agree with your post. An overwhelming number of presidents prefer the current system.

I don't wantto hi-jack the thread into the college playoff talk so after this post I will likely refrain from discussion, but it would have been awesome if Gee accepted the position.

Regardless of other presidents' stances, I was embarrassed by Gee's position. The current system isn't about the players and fans. It's about the presidents maintaining power and control.

 

[Apache]

Playoffs

I am not a fan of the playoffs. In fact, I guess I am a throwback to days of yore. How many teams? What happens to the regular season?
What happens when you have 4 or 8 teams and somehow USC, or OSU, or Texas, or Georgiea, or LSU get left out? Does the whining continue? I think having #1 and # 2 play in the BCS game is good enough. I liked the fact that it spurs conversation about who is best. I hate the "if only" aspect that the media and some have added. Just a thought.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

What happens when you have 4 or 8 teams and somehow USC, or OSU, or Texas, or Georgiea, or LSU get left out?

Then they get left out. If it's a 4- or 8-team playoff and you're not in the top 4 or 8, then you have no right to complain, regardless which school you are. USC, OSU, Texas, Georgia, LSU, etc., don't have birthright entitlments to be automatically included in a playoff.

 

[BayBuck]

Then they get left out. If it's a 4- or 8-team playoff and you're not in the top 4 or 8, then you have no right to complain, regardless which school you are. USC, OSU, Texas, Georgia, LSU, etc., don't have birthright entitlments to be automatically included in a playoff.

The right to complain is absolute. :tongue2:

 

[Nutriaitch]

What happens to the regular season?

It becomes nothing more than a footnote. Look at the NFL season that just ended. At no point during the regular season would even the most die-hard Giant fan have said that they were a top 5 team in the NFL, but they got hot in January, and they are champs. The great regular season that New England had, and really good ones by Indy, Green Bay, and Dallas are completely irrellevant.

USC, OSU, Texas, Georgia, LSU, etc., don't have birthright entitlments to be automatically included in a playoff.

Agree completely.

 

[methomps]

OSU, Texas, Georgia, LSU don't have birthright entitlments to be automatically included in a playoff.

Fixed it for you.

 

[ncaahoopfan]

4 team playoff -- UGA is still on the outside looking in

The final BCS poll (before the bowls) had UGA in 5th. So even with a 4 team playoff, they still aren't in it.....

1. OSU .9588
2. LSU .9394
3. VT .8703
4. OK .8572
5. UGA .8392

Maybe the Georgia lawmakers can help them not to get beaten by 21 to a 4-loss Tenn team.

House lawmakers pass resolution, send it to Senate

ATLANTA (AP) -- The Georgia House voted 151-9 Friday in favor of a resolution urging the NCAA to create a playoff system for college football.
"The only major sporting event without a playoff system to identify its true champion that I know of is NCAA Division 1 football," said state Rep. Quincy Murphy, D-Augusta.
Georgia was ranked fourth in the BCS entering the last week of the season, behind Missouri, West Virginia and Ohio State. When Missouri and West Virginia lost, Georgia did not rise to second behind Ohio State but dropped to fifth in the BCS. Southeastern Conference champion LSU vaulted from seventh to second.
The Bulldogs went on to rout previously undefeated Hawaii 41-10 in the Sugar Bowl.
The resolution, which now goes to the Senate, calls the BCS system "the greatest disappointment of the 2007 college football season."

Entire article: SI.com - NCAA Football - Ga. House*calls for*college football playoff - Friday February 1, 2008 2:41PM

 

[Nutriaitch]

Maybe the Georgia lawmakers can help them not to get beaten by 21 to a 4-loss Tenn team.

What's their plan B if the NCAA still doesn't go to a playoff? Will UGA and Ga. Tech refuse to play anybody who is associated with the BCS (i.e. all of division 1)? Will they turn down the MILLIONS of dollars given to UGA and Tech just because their conferences put 1 or 2 teams into BCS games? Will they quit hosting the mega-buck generating SEC CG?

 

[BB73]

sportsline

Plus-one momentum builds, but Big Ten, Pac-10 still adamantly opposed

The philosophy is in place. The participants aren't.

There is a general feeling emerging that several BCS commissioners would like to proceed with a plus-one postseason model. But how, and when? Two (Pac-10's Tom Hansen and Big Ten's Jim Delany) are dead set against a plus-one, which to some seems to be the next logical evolution of the BCS.

The gang of four commissioners (ACC, Big 12, SEC, Big East) all have said at one time or another they would be open to discussion of a plus-one -- essentially a seeded four-team progressive "playoff" played in the BCS bowls. Such a model could command higher network rights fees. Almost as important, it could help quell public outcry against the current controversial 10-year-old BCS.

"We'd be open to adjustments with some very strict parameters," Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe said. "No players engaged in more than 14 games. No intrusion on finals (in December) or the next semester. No (impact on) the bowl structure or regular season."

The BCS commissioners will meet April 28-30 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., seemingly at a crossroads in BCS history. They will begin negotiations later this year on a new contract (presumably with Fox) that ends after the 2010 bowls. The Rose Bowl, Big Ten and Pac-10 have a separate deal with ABC that ends after the 2014 game.

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