Plus One Playoffs: Michigan AD Is Crazy to Back BCS Bowl System

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. For the Michigan AD, the sentiment seems to be, "so what if the damn thing is broken, it's our system?"

As you can see, keeping the BCS bowl system isn't even all that catchy of a saying. The current state of bowl games has to go and somebody needs to inform Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon. 

Graham Watson of Yahoo Sports reports Brandon is far more tickled with the current state of bowl games than one that would include a playoff system. 

Let's consider his first argument: 

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This whole notion of a playoff is ridiculous...it's not going to be a fair playoff. You've got a bunch of teams that don't play one another and play different competition and in different time zones in different conferences in different stadiums in front of different crowds and different weather and suddenly at some point in the year you are trying to arbitrarily decide which one is better and which one deserves to be in a four-team playoff or a six-team playoff.

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Ah, I see. So a playoff would be far too arbitrary. Not like the BCS system currently employed. While I do agree that the top four or top six teams that would make it into a playoff would garner controversy, it would be far less than what the current system attracts.

Brandon then considers the health of other teams. What a nice guy. 

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...put that Alabama defense [from the national title game] out there against the winner of some small, Division I conference, and someone is going to get hurt. 

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What about the non-conference cupcakes that every powerhouse plays before the season? Perhaps Michigan should stop dominating Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan before the season starts. 

There is only one difference between a non-BCS team getting dominated in September and one playing for a title in January. The latter teams have earned it. 

Consider that Boise State and TCU have proved that small conference teams can come from nowhere and surprise us all. 

A playoff would include more teams. With inclusion comes a great deal less controversy of teams that may have been kept out unfairly as Oklahoma State decried this past season. 

We continue in a sport that has no real playoff simply because that is the system we have. We know it's broke and battered and will only continue to frustrate. We are too lazy and content to change things up and that is unacceptable. 

The BCS is broke and will just stay that way. Those with a say aren't of the right mind to change things anyway. 

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