BCS Won't Consider Football Playoff System

[TimTheEnchanter]

The reason there will not be a playoff is not that a playoff wouldn't come up with more total money - CBS paid a billion dollars for the most recent Hoops tourney deal, and basketball doesn't draw nearly as well as Lord Football. The problem with a playoff is that it would be more fair and equitable. The current system is run by the power conferences. They are the only ones who can get their teams into those 4 bowl games. Thus the big money payoffs goes to the big money conferences. Even most of the 2nd tier bowls have contractual tie-ins with the power conferences. The best a mid-major can do is go to the Ronco Pocket Fisherman-Garden Weasel Bowl in Skokie where they barely get enough money to pay the expenses of the trip. Meanwhile the big conferences keep the big TV money from the Big Bowls to keep improving their facilities and their exposure and gaining more and more advantages over the mid-level conferences.

Northern Illinois was 10-2, beat New Years Bowling Maryland, Beat Alabama, Beat Iowa St. and didn't get invited to a bowl. UCLA finished the season 6-6, lost their last 4 regular season games, only beat one team with a winning record this year(8-6 Cal) and got invited to a bowl game (which, of course, they lost) The system's rigged and they ain't going to change it until someone makes them do it.

I don't know why more mid-level colleges don't push for a playoff so they can get a piece of the pie...perhaps they are too concerned about coming off as money-grubbing, non-educators (like the Big Boys already are). Schools like Tulane are starting to make noise, and I wouldn't be surprised to see some MAC teams do the same in the near future, but surprisingly few others have joined with them.

 

[pawpaw]

Originally posted by Daniel Khan

That would be all messed up if Michigan had beat USC. Then a TWO LOSS team would have a remote chance at winning a national championship. That should never happen when there are two or more one loss teams.

but dk--thats what a playoff is all about!! the team with the best record doesn't win most of the time. if you have a 8 or 16 team playoff a 2 or 3 loss team COULD win if the 1 or 2 no loss teams fall

@timtheenchater--mid majors get screwed because a 6-6 ucla can sell 30,000 tickets in advance to a bowl game and n. illinios can't

 

[CellarDweller22]

omg.... it didn't even OCCUR to me that Northern Illinois was not invited to a bowl game!

With N. Illinois play during the regular season, ANYONE who thinks that the bowl system is "good" is smokin' some of the GOOD stuff....

I'm STILL in awe about that! How absurd..... now I KNOW the whole system is about money and the gambling lords that be.... Northern Illinois had the season of the year, especially for a team that probably still practices in a cow pasture (i.e. no $50 million practice fields...)

Enough said. Now we ALL know why there's not a playoff.

-- From The Cellar

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

Originally posted by pawpaw
@timtheenchater--mid majors get screwed because a 6-6 ucla can sell 30,000 tickets in advance to a bowl game and n. illinios can't

Not so sure about that. According to the box score at ESPN, the total attendance for the "Silicon Valley Football Classic" was 20,126.

 

[Chomp]

Yep, it's all about the money. The BCS is a terrible system but the conferences wont change it because it brings in the dough. It may have been acceptable in the 50's and 60's but it's obsolete now. The fans refuse to tolerate split championships.

 

[pawpaw]

Originally posted by TimTheEnchanter
Not so sure about that. According to the box score at ESPN, the total attendance for the "Silicon Valley Football Classic" was 20,126.

i believe it -i wouldn't of paid to see it when i stated that i meant the bowls pick their choices ( when they can ) on " past bowl appearences" aka.. who sells and who doesn't. if only 20,000 showed that will hurt ucla NEXT year when its a choice between them and someone else, they will remember who poor they drew and choose the other canidate.

 

[pawpaw]

the afca met yesterday and ALL 77 coaches voted keep the bcs, no playoffs or post bowl championship. they also want to expand the bcs to more than the current "big" 6 conferences. they also weant the ap and coaches poll to carry more weight.

 

[DBear]

Where I come from, if you can't win the conference, you don't play for the national championship. Oklahoma didn't show up to play Kansas State and lost by 4 touchdowns.

I say either the NCAA sets up a playoff system or someone will do it for them