Somebody please explain to me how this is an improvement on the old system
So far as I can figure it out, if we were still living in the pre-BCS days, the slate of major bowl games would have looked something like this:
- Rose Bowl: USC vs. Ohio State
- Sugar Bowl: LSU vs. Oklahoma
- Orange Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. West Virginia
- Fiesta Bowl: Pick two from Hawaii, Illinois, Florida, Mizzou/Kansas, or Arizona State
- Cotton Bowl: Mizzou or Kansas vs. Georgia
Maybe I’m just a traditionalist, but doesn’t that seem a hell of a lot better than this mess? Just let all the good teams play each other for one more week, see how things shake out, and THEN let the polls do their best at crowning a national champion. I’m as opposed to a playoff as anybody, but it seems to me that the old system was a hell of a lot closer to it than the current one. And at least it had history on its side. Blech.
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