... Hung out with Gap and his goof troop this weekend, which was lovely. Not so lovely was the end of the night when we fired up the ol' video game system and got no love from our previously favorite drunken activity. We're getting so old...
... the NFL boringly stood pat this week. All of the AFC teams in contention won and all of the NFC teams looking for wildcards lost. Yawn...
... Thank fuck the BCS didn't sham it up by putting OSU in the championship game. I can't wait to see a LSU/Alabama rematch. Their game earlier this season was amazing and I expect nothing less a month from now. And I hope Bama wins, essentially telling LSU that beating Bama at Bama didn't count for anything. Hopefully that will move us closer my playoff plan where you do in fact have to win your conference:
1. we force all independents into 1 of 8 FBS superconferences of at least 16 teams, giving us a minimum of 128 teams. I believe there are currently 117 FBS teams, so you bring up the best of the FCS teams who already play non-con games against the big boys (App State, Eastern Wash, etc...).
2. Each conference must have a championship game, which will in turn be the eight teams entering the Playoff. All teams not qualifying for the BCS Playoff would then be slotted into bowl games in the same way it happens now.
3. Seedings for the Playoff will still be determined by final BCS standings, in the same system we currently decide the top 2 teams. In doing so, we preserve the 'every game counts' early season non-conference super-matchups like we currently see with teams like LSU and Oregon playing each other. Winning those early games will be a an obvious boost when it comes to seeding, while losing out-of-conference won't be as damaging as it is now, leading to more home-and-homes and probably even more marquis matchups. It also is the best way to ensure the best "major conference" team squares off against the weakest conference winner (probably the Big East).
4. In order to keep the BCS Bowls tied in, each bowl site hosts a quarterfinal every season. Semi-finals will rotate between the 4 sites, meaning they host a game every other year. And of course the Championship game will rotate between the 4 sites as well.
5. Much like the NFL, the playoff begins the week after the end of the regular season (championship week, in this case), then there is a 2 week break between the semis and the championship, which lands the final game on New Year's Day. All other bowls will be played between the semis and finals, which is when many are played anyways.
Seems so simple, doesn't it? Incorporates everyone, including the horrid BCS, and with 7 games instead of 5, money goes through the roof. Especially since they all count, unlike now, where only one game matters.
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