**THE OFFICIAL FR College Football Live Thread Week 12: Your Rival, Part I**

[GOP_Raider]

My idea would have been to start the playoffs in I-A (FBS) whatever it’s called sometime around Christmas, then have the national title game in between the NFL’s Conference Title games and the Super Bowl. Imagine that...three weekends of championship football!!

[Man50D]

For some unexplained reason the major sports media outlets have only been talking about the BCS polls but no mention of the FWIW top ten. A the risk of sounding like Colonel Jessup maybe they can't handle the truth. Yes Ohio State is still #1!

Ohio State
Kansas
LSU
Virginia
Missouri
Illinois
Oklahoma
Georgia
Texas
Penn State

[Man50D]

But on the plus side, this game will actually be on ESPN2. So you do have that going for you.

Big deal. The only games they televise locally are the games I see in person, including Saturday.

[Despot of the Delta]

Saban in two years   

[Man50D]

Should be in the BCS title game if they win /s

The only thing is the Ivy League doesn't play post season football games.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****Yes Ohio State is still #1!****

Cool!!!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I came up with an idea for a College Football Playoffs....here's how it works....You take 6 teams (winners of the Big Ten, SEC, Big East, ACC, Big 12 and Pac 10)....You then have a comittee of 20 former coaches and they determine who the best 4 of those six are.

Then on the saturday before New Years we would have a final four of sorts for college football in one of the BCS Bowl cities. They would get to have two games instead of just one.

Then on the saturday after New Years we would have the BCS Cahmpionship game.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Why are all of the Texas Tech girls giving the photographer the “L” sign with their hands? LOL!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

In case you were planning to go to Ann Arbor, Michigan to see the game the directions are pretty easy (just like ann arbor).

1. North till you smell it

2. East till you step in it

LOL!!!

[GOP_Raider]

Why are all of the Texas Tech girls giving the photographer the “L” sign with their hands? LOL!

You guys want to take this one?

[GOP_Raider]

If LSU goes to the national title game this year, I’ll have to do a “Despot of the Delta’s Greatest Hits” montage of all of the greatest hits of the Despot. Someone remind me...

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Bobby Knight says, "Guns Up Baby!!! "

[Despot of the Delta]

This weeks opponent.

[Despot of the Delta]

****Yes Ohio State is still #1!****

Cool!!!

Sorry, I can't resist.

****Yes Ohio State is still #1!****

Cool!!!

[GOP_Raider]

Have you had that saved up until the right moment? Considering the number of Buckeye fans we have here, that could be slightly incendiary. :)

[Man50D]

Then on the saturday after New Years we would have the BCS Cahmpionship game.

It still comes down to money. Your system would eliminate a lot of bowl games and therefore money. The bowl sponsors would never agree.

Here's another idea. Have a 16 team playoff system as they do in 1AA/subdivision or whatever they call it. That would be 15 games. The BCS select 15 bowls to part of the playoff system. The remaining bowls will still have their games but not as part of the playoffs. Each year rotate in one bowl that was not part of the playoff system the previous year and rotate out one. That would maintain all the bowl games and allow each bowl to be part of the playoff system and big money for several years.

[wolfcreek]

So I don’t have to do it myself, what has to happen for my Longhorns to get in a BCS bowl game.

I know the only way they can get into the Big 12 CG is for the Sooners to lose to Tech and OSU. (assuming they beat TAMU next week)

Hookum Horns!

[Bat_Chemist]

Freakin hilarious!

(I think UVa used a modified version of that formula last week in the Orange Bowl...)

[lepton]

The Buckeyes were a placeholder at #1 this year. They deserved to be there at the time, because there was no one else really to put ahead of them, but were ready to be knocked off.

They’re a good team, but game before last was the first time the looked like they had a “real” quality offense...and then they had an off game against a fairly good team with an odd offense and couldn’t recover again.

On the other hand, they weren’t reasonably expected to be more than mediocre.

[N3WBI3]

OMG that is about the most amusing thing I have seen in days...