College football posteason: Better/Worse since the BCS?

When I say I miss Jan. 1, I only miss it if there's no playoff system possible. A playoff system is the real solution.

It still mystifies me than money-grubbing school presidents don't understand they could probably make more a lot more money off the TV/sponsorship rights from a 16-team playoff than they ever can off these garbage-ass bowls.

 

The only problem with the old system was bowls lining up teams in October and watching in horror as they crapped the bed down the stretch.
It's technically more "fair" now but there are still too many backroom deals once you get past the top four teams.
Things I'd cut:
multiple games featuring the same conferences (Do we need 3 Big 10 v. SEC games in Florida on New Years?)
Multiple games at bowl sites. (Nothing says your bowl is not important more than seeing the same group that welcomed you, welcoming the next game's opponent as you are boarding your plane).

I'd also mandate no more than three non-conference games for conferences with 10 or more members. Eight bowl teams were more than one game under .500 in conference but qualified because they went at least 3-1 in non-conference games.

That's 10 games cut and I don't know if anyone would miss them.

 

Arkansas would still be in the Cotton Bowl as SWC champions in the old system. Since the MWC was calved from the old WAC, Boise would probably be in the Holiday Bowl.

 

Are you crazy? The Yankees have Jeter. He'll skate circles around Danny Briere.

Although Zac Rinaldo would beat the ever-lasting piss out of Joba.

 

For the poster who longs for the days when the Orange Bowl produced tremendous games year after year:

Jan. 2, 1998: Nebraska 42, Tennessee 17
Dec. 31, 1996 Nebraska 41, Virginia Tech 21
Jan. 1, 1993 Florida State 27, Nebraska 14
Jan. 1, 1992 Miami, Fla. 22, Nebraska 0
Jan. 1, 1990 Notre Dame 21, Colorado 6
Jan. 2, 1989 Miami, Fla. 23, Nebraska 3
Jan. 1, 1987 Oklahoma 42, Arkansas 8
Jan. 1, 1986 Oklahoma 25, Penn State 10
Jan. 1, 1985 Washington 28, Oklahoma 17
Jan. 1, 1980 Oklahoma 24, Florida State 7
Jan. 2, 1978 Arkansas 31, Oklahoma 0
Jan. 1, 1977 Ohio State 27, Colorado 10
Jan. 1, 1976 Oklahoma 14, Michigan 6
Jan. 1, 1973 Nebraska 40, Notre Dame 6
Jan. 1, 1972 Nebraska 38, Alabama 6

From the time many of you began watching to the beginning of the BCS, it produced a good game about 40-45 percent of the time.

 

Anyone can produce 15 results in 40 years to refute someone's argument.

 

I was at the 1987 blowout between Oklahoma and Arkansas. Count me among those who used to love the New Year's Day bowl extravaganza, especially the Orange Bowl at night and it was so cool to actually be at that game, even if it was no contest. (Spencer Tillman ran all the place that night.)

Up top someone mentioned how great it must be to be on a bowl committee. Not sure if this story was posted or discussed here but it pretty much confirms that it must be one of the sweetest gigs anywhere.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-12-15/news/bcs-college-football-bowl-scam/

 

The Oklahoma-Arkansas game was the one with the Bosworth shirt

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I loved that game because OU knew it couldn't win the title and was without its best player, but was intent on making a statement in that game, which it did.

 

The Boz was also rocking an orange Vinny Testaverde jersey on the sidelines that night.

 

Only Barry Switzer would let a suspended player go out as a captain for the coin toss.

 

It wasn't 15 results in 40 years.

It was 15 results in 26 years --- my list stopped with the beginning of the BCS after 1997.

And at least I provided something, not just some childhood memory of a good game or two that stuck with me forever and skewed my thinking.

 

Of those Orange Bowl results listed, they may have been lopsided but were between very good teams -- for example:

Jan. 2, 1998 No. 2 Nebraska 42, No. 3 Tennessee 17
Jan. 1, 1993 No. 3 Florida State 27, No. 11 Nebraska 14
Jan. 1, 1992 No. 1 Miami, Fla. 22, No. 11 Nebraska 0
Jan. 2, 1989 No. 2 Miami, Fla. 23, No. 6 Nebraska 3
Jan. 1, 1986 No. 3 Oklahoma 25, No. 1 Penn State 10
Jan. 1, 1985 No. 4 Washington 28, No. 2 Oklahoma 17
Jan. 1, 1980 No. 5 Oklahoma 24, No. 4 Florida State 7
Jan. 2, 1978 No. 6 Arkansas 31, No. 2 Oklahoma 0
Jan. 1, 1976 No. 3 Oklahoma 14, No. 5 Michigan 6
Jan. 1, 1972 No. 1 Nebraska 38, No. 2 Alabama 6