Which is part of why I don’t like the playoff.
A team sustains a critical injury for the final game, and it undoes everything they worked for the entire season.
A championship should be won on the work over an entire season. That’s what made College Football different than the NFL....Now it will be no different.
It’s not that I necessarily oppose a playoff, I just don’t think it’s going to make people nearly as happy as they think it will.
indeed. the playoff is being sold as the magical solution to all that is wrong with college football. it isn’t. in fact, I haven’t run into too many people that can tell me what “the problem” really is. when you ask the question, what you usually get is a rant against the BCS. well, wait. the BCS isn’t “a problem”, it’s possibly an ineffective answer to a different problem, but it isn’t, in and of itself, “a problem”.
expecting linear orderliness out of college football is to completely misunderstand the thing in the first place.
“A team sustains a critical injury for the final game, and it undoes everything they worked for the entire season.”
That’s why you have such a deep roster...injuries. Ohio State had a few plus they had a suspension. Still almost pulled out a win over Clemson. If these guys go to a top school they better be prepared to play.