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Our friend at the Hotline Blogometer, Conn Carroll (full disclosure, my team pummelled Conn's team in our fantasy football league last week, so I am feeling charitable), has posted his last unsubstantiated smear insightful column last week. Good luck in your future endeavors Conn. And good last column, the BCS is a joke.:

Today marks the last day of our tenure as Blogometer. So instead of inflicting someone's elses thoughts on you for the 3000th time, we'd like to share our thoughts on the most crucial issue this nation faces: the travesty that is the Bowl Championship Series. We could harp on how all of the university presidents in the major conferences are thieves and liars for propping up this sham, but instead we want to offer a solution, so here goes. The Sun Belt and Conference USA would merge into a mega conference. On Christmas Day the WAC champ would play the Mountain West champ in Las Vegas and the MAC champ would play the ConferenceUSA/SunBelt champ in Orlando. On New Years the Pac 10 and Big Ten champs would play in the Rose Bowl, the Big 12 and ACC champs would play in the Orange Bowl, the SEC and Big East champs would play in the Sugar Bowl, and the winners of the Christmas Day games would square off in the Fiesta Bowl. The following would week would feature two semi-final games and the next week would be the national champion.

Of course the upshot of all this would be an SEC national champion almost every year, but that would be fine with me. Go Gators!

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    Getting perilously close to the date (none / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Sun Nov 18, 2007 at 04:29:31 PM EST
    catchers and pitchers report for Spring training.  

    Plus, don't those college football players really need to study?

    study? (none / 0) (#2)
    by cpinva on Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 01:04:37 AM EST
    geez, how much studying could there possibly be for "underwater basket weaving 101"?

    I remember reading about a football (none / 0) (#4)
    by oculus on Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 01:48:24 PM EST
    player who didn't get a passing grade in recreational leadership and had to go to summer school to stay eligible.  

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    Greed and Politics will force playoffs (none / 0) (#3)
    by joejoejoe on Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 04:57:33 AM EST
    If Hawaii goes undefeated you're going to have two state schools (with 4 US Senators) that went undefeated in recent years and were denied a spot in the championship game. You are going to have possibly 5 other state schools with one loss wondering why a team like LSU gets millions more dollars to be in the championship game and they get to be in the Spare Tire Bowl.

    Add in coaches at top programs like Urban Meyer who think they can win 4 games in a row in a 16 team tournament (like in I-AA) more than they can finish in the top two of BCS and the system is going to change.

    My plan is to cap the regular season at 12 games per team, have a 16 team tournament with an automatic bid to every team with one loss or fewer and then have one of those knockout rounds in each region with all the two loss teams playing each other for a quarter like they do in Florida HS football. Now THAT would get some TV ratings.

    Let the 4 major "bowls" be awarded to the regional winners of each bracket (Rose in West, Orange in East, Sugar in South, Cotton in Midwest) that make the Final Four and split the larger pile of tournament money more equitably between schools.

    The local greed of the second-tier bowls will get outstripped by the larger greed of US Senators eager to grandstand and fight for ol' State U. The Miami Chamber of Commerce isn't good at sharing pork with the Pasadena CoC but the US Senate has expertise in that area that can and will fix the BCS problem eventually. Biden is already working on it.