jordo212000;979193 wrote:What's not going to happen? haha the call for a playoff? That's already happening and will only get louder if LSU happens to slip up. How do you make sense of the landscape? LSU lost to Arkansas, Alabama beat Arkansas, LSU beat Alabama, LSU beat Oregon, Oregon beat Stanford, etc.
I think you are seeing phase one with the BCS no longer going to be involved with the crown jewel bowl games. Somebody is in their (BCS) ear. Odd that they would throw themselves on the sword and back away from those games. Something, somebody, or some people is driving that.
A playoff will happen and it's years like this that prove that one is needed. There is no way anybody can make sense of all this. How do you decide who plays in that game? Millions are at stake and you want those left up to a couple of computers and coaches who watch a handful of games each week? haha ok
The call for a playoff has been as loud as it is going to get (until an undefeated Big Ten team is left out and the Big Ten decides it wants a playoff). If a non-conference champion Oklahoma getting in over Pac 10 champ USC, an undefeated Auburn missing out, a 2-loss team making the title game (over like five other 1-2 loss teams), and having five undefeated teams heading into the bowl games didn't inspire the change, not much else is going to.
There's been plenty of years in which other teams had gripes and the people that matter have never cared. There will always be controversy. There will always be talk that "this is the year that proves we need a playoff" and there will always be policy makers saying, "no thanks".
That the BCS is considering ditching "BCS Bowls" is NOT a move in the direction of a playoff, it is a move back to the old system with the added bonus of a title game. That way, the big boys can go get their own money from bowls and not have to worry about the look of "being fair" to Boise State, et al, any more.
