And the growing sentiment for a playoff has reached a point that really the only real obstacle are the (mostly liberal) college presidents.
"And the growing sentiment for a playoff has reached a point that really the only real obstacle are the (mostly liberal) college presidents."
I'm surprised that some of them haven't decided that it isn't fair to keep score during a game and that the real winner is the team who is nicest to the other team.
"And the growing sentiment for a playoff has reached a point that really the only real obstacle are the (mostly liberal) college presidents."
Bingo, we have a winner. Quite frankly, Division 1A is too large and is composed of two different types of schools. There are the USC, OU, AU, etc., types of teams that are committed to playing college football on the highest level. You also have about half the division where their presidents resent the emphasis on football in the other schools. If you want a playoff, you'll have to deal with that and that will require a major shakeup in the composition of the conferences in Division 1A.
You'll have to forget the Big 10, SEC, Big 12, etc., and realign the major football schools into maybe four conferences with conference playoffs, and then a two game playoff.
Short of that, you'll have to revamp the distribution of money between the schools in the playoffs. Currently, only the conferences with teams playing post season get a cut. Harvard, Yale, etc., don't get a cut of the cash and they have no reason to vote for a championship. Combine that with the resentment of those 'liberal' presidents and you have the real reason there is no play off.
Myself, I'm rather ambivalent on the idea of playoffs. I don't really know what it would resolve. The idea that one can decide on which team is the best based upon one game is rather far fetched. Does any one really believe that USC, OU, or even AU are that much different? Any of those teams (and you could throw in a few more, maybe Texas for example) could beat any of the other teams. A couple of breaks one way or the other (like a dropped touchdown, a funky bounce of the ball, or a bad referee's call) and any of those teams could win the championship game. What, exactly, would that prove?
I'm an OU grad and I'll be rooting for them tonight. But even if they beat USC tonight, it will only mean they beat USC one time on one night. If they played a dozen times, they'd probably split the series fairly evenly. Would a victory by either team mean they were "the best team in college football"? Not really and it wouldn't matter if that game were a real championship game. They'd still be one of a few teams with little to distinguish one team from another.