On 1 Dec 2006 19:58:15 -0800, "Santolina chamaecyparissus"
juno.com> wrote:
>I was a bit bored today. Here is what college football should (but
>won't) do:
>1. Scale back the regular season to 11 games.
>2. Establish a 16 team playoff field, seedings based on a system
>similar to the one they have now for the BCS.
>3. First round games are played on the home fields of the top eight
>seeds. First seed plays 16, etc.
>4. First round losers join everybody else in the pool of available
>teams for the second and third tier bowl games.
>5. First round winners are paired off in the current BCS big four
>games plus two more.
>6. Next round is played in two BCS bowls determined on a rotating
>basis.
>7. Final is played in one of the Big Six BCS Bowls, determined on a
>rotating basis.
>Flawless, is it not?
The college football season has been extended and extended to a
ridiculous length, mostly at the behest of the broadcasting moguls,
certainly not because the fans were clamoring for it. Twenty years
ago, for example, the only games you would see on the second Saturday
after Thanksgiving would be the Army-Navy game and maybe the Division
I-AA, Division II and Division III playoffs. The big rivalry games
between Cal & Stanford and USC & UCLA would have taken place the
Saturday BEFORE Thanksgiving, like most of the other big-named
rivalries (Alabama-Auburn, Michigan-Ohio State).
What the networks are obviously trying to do is extend the length of
the college football season - regular season and post-season - so that
it is comparable to that of NCAA basketball.
Personally I'd like to go back to the way things were, before the Bowl
Coalitions and the Bowl Championship Series. Of course this is a pipe
dream for me. As it happens, I rarely watch Big Time College Football
anymore, primarily because my interest is waning precisely as ESPN's
and ABC's hype grows louder, more obtrusive and more obnoxious each
year.
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