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To: Diddle E. Squat
Yeah. Like I said, I don't follow it closely, but I also think it gives me a a more impartial view. I suppose a playoff system would add 3 weeks to the season right? I suppose that is doable. If the season is lengthen by one week, and then OU, for example, doesn't need to play North Texas or University of Tulsa.
20 posted on 12/06/2003 8:46:33 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King
Actually a playoff system would only need to add 2 weeks after the bowls. Take the 4 BCS bowl winners, match them up in 2 semi-finals, and then have a REAL national championship game. Make the semi-finals into home games for the 2 highest ranked teams coming out of the BCS bowls, but have a caveat that a conference champ gets to host over a wildcard(even if the wildcard is ranked higher), thus keeping more meaning to the regular season and conf. champ. Then play the national championship at a neutral site bowl, so the BCS goes from 4 to 5 bowls, rotated among those bowls that are interested(the Rose may not want to give up New Years Day, even for the NC game.)

That gives us an easy 8 team playoff, with little disruption and minimal impact on the existing bowls.

If 8 isn't enough, it can later be expanded out to include conf. champ games and wildcard playoffs(using other existing bowls).

Here's my proposal from a couple of years ago:

A playoff that saves the bowls and quiets the critics

25 posted on 12/06/2003 8:56:09 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat (www.firemackbrown.com, www.firecarlreese.com)
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