"Fixing" college football -- let's see your solution

[NajdorfDefense]

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I guess I'm in the majority, but I like the current system. Controversy is good and I like that there is so much pressure on teams in the regular season. Anyway, it's not like there have been a string of unworthy national champions under the BCS.

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Best regular season of any sport. Every game counts, whether it's v Notre Dame, App St, or Oklahoma.

Or, go with 128 teams and wrestlebacks.

If you like college football, what's wrong with debating the merits of 1991 Miami v 1991 Washington? Or 1994 PSU v 1994 Nebraska? Most years, there aren't 2 undefeated top tier teams anyway, and now the BCS has solved that problem.

If you don't go undefeated, you have no room to whine anyways.

[jstnrgrs]

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Best regular season of any sport. Every game counts,

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unless you are Utah (2004) then none of the games count.

[Clarkmeister]

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Best regular season of any sport. Every game counts,

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unless you are Utah (2004) then none of the games count.

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Or Auburn.

The current system is such a joke because the tiebreaker, which is the polls, is set before a freaking game is played. USC gets in over any other one-loss team simply because they started the year at #1. See Oklahoma, Nebraska and Miami for examples of this. No polls should be released until like the 2nd week of October and the coaches poll should be abolished.

[ThaSaltCracka]

human polls shouldn't be a part of it at all.

[pvn]

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Best regular season of any sport. Every game counts,

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unless you are Utah (2004) then none of the games count.

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Or Auburn.

The current system is such a joke because the tiebreaker, which is the polls, is set before a freaking game is played. USC gets in over any other one-loss team simply because they started the year at #1. See Oklahoma, Nebraska and Miami for examples of this. No polls should be released until like the 2nd week of October and the coaches poll should be abolished.

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See Texas and Wisconsin this year!

The problem is, there's no way to make "early" polls "illegal". Even if the AP voluntarily decided to wait until October before publishing, there will be SOMEONE putting out a poll, and there will be retarded bozos using those as crutches. The people filling these ballots out are not geniuses. The people in this thread almost assuredly know more about college football than probably half of the voters.

The solution is to make the polls meaningless. Settle it on the field.

[bernie]

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what's wrong with debating the merits of 1991 Miami v 1991 Washington?

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Or the '84 Huskies and '84 BYU...

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Make it all year round.

[BobJoeJim]

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Make it all year round.

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I just read through all 92 posts in this thread, and this is DEFINITELY the best suggestion I saw [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I do think many people made good points, particularly MT2R and Najdorf, but I just don't see college football as something that needs to be fixed. It's by far the best thing in sports right now, why can't we just enjoy that?

If the lack of a definitive national champ every single year bothers you THAT much, a 4 game playoff would work well, but I don't think it's necessary. More than that is definitely not needed though. As a fan I've been on the bad side of being left out of a title game (Ducks, 2001), but when has a #5 team EVER legitimately been able to argue they should have been in the title game? 4 teams covers the years when there are three undefeateds, or when there is a tough question as to who is #2 and deserves a title shot against a "clear" #1.

Still, while I wouldn't object to a four team playoff, I don't think it's necessary (even if I would have loved to see my Ducks get a shot in 2001, but hey, we blew the Stanford game, so we can't really blame the system).

[MyTurn2Raise]

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what's wrong with debating the merits of 1991 Miami v 1991 Washington?

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Or the '84 Huskies and '84 BYU...

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I still cannot believe Illinois was passed over in 2001...they had one regular season loss but the computers chose someone else...BAH

[MyTurn2Raise]

I already put in the master answer to this question

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