Obama to throw weight around

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#26
Every major sport uses playoffs to determine their champion,so why can't D1 do the same.There would be plenty of money to be made,so that shouldn't even be an issue.
 
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TennTradition said:
The top-10 matchups during the regular season can be fairly in-bred within conferences. I will readily agree that college football has an amazing regular season...but the best team probably doesn't always end up with the trophy....though that isn't guaranteed in any playoff. I would prefer an 8-team tourney...but a plus one would solve most problems.
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If the best team won the trophy every time, USC would have a couple more. Too bad for them. They play in an awful conference most years and still manage to lose a game or two. They know the stakes of each game and still come up short. It's not the fault of the BCS. It's USC's.
 
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I'm with kptvol on this one. The regular season is too exciting to screw it up with a playoff system. However, I wouldn't mind seeing a plus 1 game if it is needed.
 
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kptvol said:
If the best team won the trophy every time, USC would have a couple more. Too bad for them. They play in an awful conference most years and still manage to lose a game or two. They know the stakes of each game and still come up short. It's not the fault of the BCS. It's USC's.
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It would probably be safe to say that a large-seeded playoff would probably kill team's out-of-conference scheduled, which would be a very negative consequence.
 
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the majority of people i know who favor a full playoff system are not primarly college football fans (mostly nfl guys who just don't get college football).
 
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GAVol said:
Exactly . . . If you want to screw up the best regular season in all of sports, institute a playoff system with more than 2 rounds.
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I don't think an 8 team beauty contest would devalue the regular season tremendously. Making the top 8 is one helluva chore. It would definitely devalue a conference championship, however.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
I don't think an 8 team beauty contest would devalue the regular season tremendously. Making the top 8 is one helluva chore. It would definitely devalue a conference championship, however.
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Ummm... not if they would simply tie the playoff spots in with the winners of the conferences and leave either 2 or 3 at large bids. Make all the conferences with guaranteed spots play a championship game to determine their winner. That way there would be 5 or 6 conferences with automatic berths, and then the other spots would be filled by the highest ranked non-champs.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
Ummm... not if they would simply tie the playoff spots in with the winners of the conferences and leave either 2 or 3 at large bids. Make all the conferences with guaranteed spots play a championship game to determine their winner. That way there would be 5 or 6 conferences with automatic berths, and then the other spots would be filled by the highest ranked non-champs.
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auto berths is a problem today, when the Big 10, Big East and ACC have no business getting any. That situation happens every year.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
auto berths is a problem today, when the Big 10, Big East and ACC have no business getting any. That situation happens every year.
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That argument can easily be made, but if that's the case, then they will be eliminated in the first game, and the best teams will be there at the end. I guess there would really be no way around the polls to select the at large teams, but ultimately, that factor would keep teams from simply loading up on cupcakes to get wins, because teams would know if they don't win their conference then they will at the complete mercy of the polls. Any steps that can be taken to minimalize the weight of the polls are for the best IMO.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
That argument can easily be made, but if that's the case, then they will be eliminated in the first game, and the best teams will be there at the end.
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the problem with that logic is the fact that the best eight teams aren't in the dance. The bias in auto entry is a problem because it precludes the best eight teams as often as it doesn't.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
the problem with that logic is the fact that the best eight teams aren't in the dance. The bias in auto entry is a problem because it precludes the best eight teams as often as it doesn't.
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It's the same with the NCAA basketball tournament. Every year there are deseerving teams left out because of auto-entrants winning their conference tourney. I realize that it's a little different with 64 teams as opposed to 8, but still the logic is the same. If you want a shot at the NC, win your conference.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
It's the same with the NCAA basketball tournament. Every year there are deseerving teams left out because of auto-entrants winning their conference tourney. I realize that it's a little different with 64 teams as opposed to 8, but still the logic is the same. If you want a shot at the NC, win your conference.
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the guys vying to be 66,67,68 have a much weaker argument for winning the whole shebang than those at 8,9,10.
 
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#38
Obama should have gotten behind the +1 proposal. It has a better chance of being implemented than an 8-team playoff scenario.

I'm still in favor of forcing Notre Dame into the Big 10 and thus forcing the Big 10 to have a conference championship game. As well as removing the Big 10/Pac10 lock on the Rose Bowl.
 
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