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Originally Posted by Montana Moe
This could be interesting...
Death to the BCS
As a fan of an SEC team, you can imagine I'm not much into book learnin', but I may have to pick this one up.
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It really doesn't look like it adds anything to conversation. Here's a pretty extensive write-up on the book with a response from the writer at the end:
http://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/10/1...ogy/?eref=sihp
I find it hilarious that after all that "research", the best the writers could come up with is a 16-team playoff where all 11 conference winners make the playoffs. Clearly there's issues with the BCS, but moving to a system where East Carolina, Troy, and Central Michigan and the like make the playoffs every year isn't exactly a step forward. I've read a lot of playoff proposals (and have seen this one many, many times) and this is one of the worst ones. If tomorrow this system was put in place, I guarantee you'd see a mass backing out of strong non-conference games for 2012 and beyond by major programs and mediocre BCS conference teams without a major historical conference tie (Louisville, Vanderbilt, Rutgers, etc.) scrambling to join the C-USA, Sun Belt, etc. to get an easy playoff bid.