College Football BCS (1998 - 2014)

[RoryN]

Good fucking riddance.

PLAYOFFS?

Four-team playoff will begin with 2014 season — and controversial BCS will fade away

updated 6:33 p.m. ET June 26, 2012

WASHINGTON - College football will finally have a playoff. Come 2014, the BCS is dead.

A committee of university presidents on Tuesday approved the BCS commissioners' plan for a four-team playoff to start in the 2014 season.

The move completes a six-month process in which the commissioners have been working on a new way to determine a major college football champion. Instead of simply matching the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the country in a championship game after the regular season, the way the Bowl Championship Series has done since 1998, the new format will create a pair of national semifinals. No. 1 will play No. 4, No. 2 will play No. 3.

The winners will advance to the championship.

The teams will be selected by a committee, similar to the way the NCAA basketball tournament field is set.

There are still some details to work out, but all the decision-makers are on board.

Lower divisions of college football already have a playoff.

© 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

 

[cfuhrer]

We should throw a party. And not like a wake where everyone drinks and says nice things and prays. I mean an honest to God cele-damn-bration.

I like brackets, so nice and neat and orderly.

 

[RoryN]

We should throw a party. And not like a wake where everyone drinks and says nice things and prays. I mean an honest to God cele-damn-bration.

Seriously. It's a great day for college football.

 

[HoosierCowboy69]

About fucking time!

 

[trysail]

If you don't like the "1%" and want to take their money away, there are simple steps you can take:


STOP

• watching movies,
• watching NFL football,
• watching the NBA,
• looking at baseball,
• watching NHL hockey
• watching big-time "Kolledge" football, or
• looking at NCAA Division I basketball.

Remember— Only you can reduce their incomes !!!

 

[RoryN]

If you don't like the

SPAM REPORTED

 

[killallhippies]

halfass bullshit.

 

[KRCummings]

halfass bullshit.

It is but it's better than the current system. I gotta believe that if it works out they'll expand and improve upon it.

 

[killallhippies]

It is but it's better than the current system. I gotta believe that if it works out they'll expand and improve upon it.

i wouldn't count on it. the bowls don't want to become completely irrelevant because they want to keep making money.

 

[KRCummings]

i wouldn't count on it. the bowls don't want to become completely irrelevant because they want to keep making money.

I'm not sure how it all exactly works but I see no reason why they can't keep all the bowls and even add a few if they really want. So the Sugar becomes a wild card playoff and the Rose becomes a semi-final and so on.

 

[MrBates2]

i wouldn't count on it. the bowls don't want to become completely irrelevant because they want to keep making money.

The bowls were already irrelevant. It’s a four-team money grab designed to create a power base that eliminates the MAC, Conference USA, Sun Belt, WAC and Mountain West from the equation.

 

[killallhippies]

I'm not sure how it all exactly works but I see no reason why they can't keep all the bowls and even add a few if they really want. So the Sugar becomes a wild card playoff and the Rose becomes a semi-final and so on.

because of the schools and the "tradition". they make cash off those things as well. hell, you're from big 10 country. i'm sure you remember at least some of the bitching when the rose bowl was added to the national championship shuffle.

but whatever. i say fuck the bowl games. i don't care if they're cash machines. they're fucking annoying and there's too damned many of them and they're pretty much meaningless at this point. they need to go the fuck away.

but they won't.

 

[MrBates2]

because of the schools and the "tradition". they make cash off those things as well. hell, you're from big 10 country. i'm sure you remember at least some of the bitching when the rose bowl was added to the national championship shuffle.

but whatever. i say fuck the bowl games. i don't care if they're cash machines. they're fucking annoying and there's too damned many of them and they're pretty much meaningless at this point. they need to go the fuck away.

but they won't.

Well, you can't please everyone.

 

[KRCummings]

because of the schools and the "tradition". they make cash off those things as well. hell, you're from big 10 country. i'm sure you remember at least some of the bitching when the rose bowl was added to the national championship shuffle.

but whatever. i say fuck the bowl games. i don't care if they're cash machines. they're fucking annoying and there's too damned many of them and they're pretty much meaningless at this point. they need to go the fuck away.

but they won't.

Yes, people got a bit upset when the very idea of a Rose Bowl that didn't include the PAC and Big 10 came up. Blasphemy and all that.

 

[cfuhrer]

Blasphemy and all that.

It was. :nods head:

I still refuse to watch a Rose Bowl that includes a team not from the two original conferences. Which isn't much of an issue since its not shown on broadcast tv these days.

I have some issues with the PAC 12, too. But, that's for another thread.

 

[KRCummings]

It was. :nods head:

I still refuse to watch a Rose Bowl that includes a team not from the two original conferences. Which isn't much of an issue since its not shown on broadcast tv these days.

I have some issues with the PAC 12, too. But, that's for another thread.

Technically the PAC/Big aren't the original conferences for the Rose Bowl.

 

[cfuhrer]

Technically the PAC/Big aren't the original conferences for the Rose Bowl.

Interesting; can't say I knew that. Well, they have been the parties involved for as long as I can remember.

 

[Cratchit]

anything has to be better than the BCS

 

[KRCummings]

anything has to be better than the BCS

Maybe they'll have a Shawshank Bowl so Penn St. can use their coaches.

 

[Bert Notorius]

College sports can blow me.

 

[Cratchit]

Maybe they'll have a Shawshank Bowl so Penn St. can use their coaches.

As long as they can use them for one game to beat the fuck out of ohio state