No, not again! The AP (stands for Almost Predictable) Top 25 and the Pre-season Coaches Poll were released this week. They were immediately followed by outcries from fans of the Big East, the Big 12 and the ACC calling for a college football playoff—and the season is still 23 days away!
Yes, folks, it looks like it’s going to be another loooong season.
Realistically, you would have a better chance of drawing water from a stone than convincing the commissioners of the BCS conferences to initiate a college football playoff. If you think that negotiating a permanent peace in the Middle East is tough, try changing the present Bowl Championship Series to anything that ends in the word "playoff."
That brings to mind Jim Mora’s immortal words that have become a daily mantra for the BCS commissioners: "Playoffs? Don’t talk about playoffs? You kidding me?"
So, if you can’t fight ‘em, join ‘em.
Those may be strange words coming from someone who has been begging to see a college football playoff. On the other hand, however, I must admit that the present system, which makes every regular season game count, is rather exciting,
But then how do we really arrive at pitting the two best teams in college football against each other in the title match up.
The first thing the BCS must do is eliminate the Coaches Poll, which is completely Un-American. It harkens back to pre-Revolutionary days when the colonists revolted against taxation without representation and unfair levies on imports.
The facts are quite clear. Many coaches do not look at the competition outside of their conferences fairly. The good old boy stocking of the Top 20 and the Top 10 with schools from their conference does not give fair representation to out-of-conference rivals.
In a recent New York Times blog, The Quad points out this very fact with a link to a critical article from SportsByBrooks.com about a number of coaches whose bias and subjectivity preclude any sort of objective Coaches Poll.
The Quad also cites another article on InTheBleachers.net that criticizes pre-season polls in general.
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