If LSU was 12-0 and the only undefeated div 1 team, 1st in both polls and the BCS, would we still want a playoff?
LSU could be 20-0 and they wouldn't be ranked ahead of USuCk!!!!! The AP poll is not based on facts or voted on by people that watched both teams play all season.
An 8-team playoff format each year out of 117 teams integrated with the current bowl system is the only way to go. Anything less is nothing but a very biased popularity contest! The championship must and should only be determined on the football field. A very easy way to have an 8-team playoff that is fully integrated with the current bowl system is to have the first round of the playoff games played the first week after the end of the regular season. The four winners from those playoff games will then be matched up to play on New Years day in the national semifinal bowls and the four losers will also play New Years day in the national consolation bowls, a final championship game, the NCAA College Football Super Bowl, will be played seven days later to decide the national championship. Of course, the national semifinal and consolation bowls would be the former BCS bowls. Similar to the way the BCS was formulated from the six most powerful conferences, the eight most powerful conferences would come together to form a National NCAA College Football Playoff Alliance, with each conference being able to send one representative to the 8-team national championship playoff. Finally, except for the minor changes to the four BCS bowls and the addition of the national championship Super Bowl, all the rest of the bowls and everything else about college football would remain exactly the same, except we would finally have the best of both worlds, with no human polls and no computers picking the mythical national champions.
We were in a playoff. Remember..... We had to beat Ole Miss to create a tie in the West.. We had to beat Arkansas to win the West, as Ole Miss only had one conference loss...... We had to beat Georgia to make the Sugar Bowl.... We beat OU for the whole damn thing... We went through 4 bowl teams (AKA playoff teams) to get to where we were. Nobody else can say that. We won the playoffs.
Yeah, some playoff system ... LSU must win out and OU doesn't! There's no logical argument against a playoff...
That's the same thing that Stoops said in the halftime interview during the Orange Bowl... He said, not word for word, "3 years ago we were the only undefeated team in the nation. Does it make sense to have us play another game?" If there is only one undefeated team at the end of the year, it works. If there are, like this year, 3 teams with 1 loss each heading into the Bowl season, then it sucks. From what I've heard on radio and browsed through on the internet, the BCS committee is going to look into making a stipulation that teams have to win their conference championship to be eligible to be in the national title game. Now, that’s all fine and dandy, but what about USC? Technically they did win their conference because they came in first in the PAC 10, BUT they didn’t have to play an extra game this year like LSU and OU. They walked ass backwards into a bullsh*t national championship claim. While LSU was celebrating the only trophy that says, “National Championship” given on the day of a bowl, USC had to settle to get there aluminum “2nd place trophy the day after. We all know that LSU won the National Championship. We all know that LSU had to give part of the recognition to USC. It will never be questioned that USC had to share it’s National Championship with LSU. Technically USC came in 2nd place, and we all know what 2nd place is; 2nd place is the first loser.
