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Originally Posted by valo403
Great post.
This seems to be a common tactic with the 'blow up the whole thing' argument, take all of the good things that have happened in the past and imply that a playoff will result in those happening over and over again, regardless of the blatant differences in the situations.
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Another common tactic is to take any minor gripe with NCAA football and assume adding a playoff (and not even specifying anymore details) will fix them all.
Look at this article from SI:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...html?eref=sihp
Here's some choice quotes:
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On my way to the Cowboys Stadium parking lot after the Big 12 title game, I chatted with CBSSports.com's Gary Parrish about the BCS chaos we would have seen had officials not given Texas another second to kick a game-winning field goal. Parrish, whose primary beat is college basketball, couldn't believe that Texas quarterback Colt McCoy's pass hitting a stadium railing altered the fate of the national title matchup.
"What a stupid system," Parrish said. "So, because Jerry Jones decided to put a railing there instead of 50 feet further back, Texas gets to play for the national title instead of Cincinnati?"
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Apparently that same '1 second left on the clock' scenario could never happen in the playoff semi-finals or finals.
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Ken Goe of The Oregonian made an excellent point this week. The Ducks were foolish to schedule Boise State at the start of the season. They should have brought Western Kentucky or some other creampuff and rolled to an undefeated record for most of the season. Who knows? Maybe they would have beaten Stanford while trying to protect a national title run. One of these days, schools will learn that in the BCS era, scheduling tough out-of-conference games doesn't help anyone. That's yet another reason why the system stinks.
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Ask Boise St. how much a creampuff schedule helps their National Title hopes. Apparently under a playoff scenario we'd see all these great non-conference games...or we'd see schedules like Boise St. because all you need to do is go 12-0 or 11-1 and you're punching your home-field ticket to the playoffs.