Phil Taylor nails it
Phil Taylor added his $.02 about the bowl system and he's nailed it:
There will be 28 bowl games between Dec. 20 and Jan. 4, when USC and Texas play for the national title in the Rose Bowl. The other 27 contests, no matter how highly ranked the participants, are nothing more than glorified exhibition games. No championships are decided, no conferences are won, no great meaning is attached. In many cases, bowl games are anticlimactic letdowns, no matter who wins them. If Auburn beats Wisconsin in something called the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 2, for instance, do you really think the win will mean as much to the Tigers as their victory over arch-rival Alabama last month?That's exactly what I'm trying to say here. The other non-championship bowls are meaningless, there's no excitement for the general fan audience.
This is also my response to the argument that there will still be complaining about who gets into a playoff. Sure there will, but once the playoff starts, the games will be so fun, that the complaining will be a hiss compared to the uproar we have now. Plus, we don't have to complain (or listen to the complaining) for a month leading up to a bowl. Nothing's perfect, but the BCS isn't even close to a playoff in this regard.
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posted @ 12:07 PM
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I also think that "who's really no. 8" is an interesting debate but, seriously, not nearly as much of an issue as "who's really no. 1 and 2". It's fun to talk about who really should get the opportunity to lose to the no. 1 team in the first round of the playoffs, but I don't think there would ever be any doubt that, with an 8-team playoff, the best two teams in the country would be somewhere in that group.
Excellent point. At some point a team doesn't really have as much of a right to play for a championship. Besides, it would still mean that every regular season game is vitally important (like a playoff), as BCS advocates like to spout.
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