[Utah Girl]

I totally agree college football needs a playoff system. Utah fans got really incensed with the comment that their team was the 'intruder' at the BCS bowl game. The BCS really messed up this year, however, I see no changing in the next few years.

USC is the best, but they have to prove it on the field tomorrow night against Oklahoma. Anything can happen, and that is why the games are played. That is why it is so irritating to the teams outside of the BCS monopoly to have literally no chance of playing in a BCS bowl game or heaven forbid, actually win a football national championship. Such greed, and such a shame.

[Diddle E. Squat]

And the growing sentiment for a playoff has reached a point that really the only real obstacle are the (mostly liberal) college presidents.

[capitan_refugio]

"The BCS really messed up this year..."

I dislike the BCS intensely, but they did accomplish their goal - putting the top two teams into a bowl game. However, I would have liked to see Utah vs. Auburn.

The rap on Utah is that they play a relatively weak schedule. Had they been the only team to finish undefeated, I would have voted them #1. A similar situation happened in the mid-1980's when BYU was the "best" team in the nation and defeated Michigan in the Holiday Bowl.

The rap on Auburn is that last year they were not a top-performing team, and so they came in with a relatively low rank. Both SC and Oklahoma had great years last year (although Oklahoma benefitted, at SC's expense, in making the BCS championship, even though they lost their conference title game). Auburn did not.

[Moose4]

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.

}:-)4