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Well, I see it this way...I'm a proud graduate of the REAL NCAA college football champions. The James Madison University Dukes, who beat Montana to win the Division I-AA championship...in a playoff. They played four games (gasp!), all of them on the road (horror!), and won them all (shock!). No bogus rankings, no arguments about strength of schedule. They went into three consecutive games on their opponents' turf, beat them down, earned the right to play in Chattanooga for the championship, and beat a powerful Montana team in an upset.

If a sixteen-team, four-week playoff is good enough for the student-athletes in Divisions I-AA, II, and III, it's damn well good enough for the prima donnas in I-A. I don't want to hear some self-righteous college president or overpaid coach bleating about "the disruption to the exam schedule of our athletes" when the kids at the lower levels have to get their exam schedules disrupted just as much. And unlike the I-A players, very few of them are going to make it at the next level professionally playing football...they need that education.

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