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Originally Posted by Coach Pants
Oh I forgot that game was for the national championship. Silly me. I better freshen up on my reading comprehension out here in tobacco country.
Look I know the highlight of living in potato country is the occasional potato festival and boise st. football but that doesn't change the fact that a playoff system would, at most, yield two championships from s.hit conferences in the span of a century.
Congratulations to Utah though. That was, and will continue to be, the biggest win in the history of their school.
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Listen...you are right as you usually are, but the simple facts are, that every blue moon a non-BCS conference yields a team that can compete week in and week out with the big boys. And those teams could even win two weeks in a row in a playoff system and if things fell right even three weeks in a row. I have no doubt of that. You are of the opinion that if it happens only once in 30 years it should not even be attempted. That is fine. I simply disagree. I think a playoff would work. I think in a 16 team playoff those from non BCS conferences would lose first round over 50 percent of the time...but would win first round quite a bit and 2nd round a good chunk as well.
I see no evidence that TCU couldn't be competetive with any team in the country this year. I see no evidence that Boise State couldn't play competetively with any team in the country. I'm a Penn State grad. So I'm jaded, their corpse on the sidelines has clamored for a playoff for about 40 years now as they were once the non-BCS team who couldn't compete either before such things existed. There's always been the non-entities in college football. Penn State was that for years and years in the 60s and 70s. It's just on ESPN now and called non BCS teams.