Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Turns out Punxsutawny Phil saw his shadow again this year, the verdict: SIX MORE WEEKS OF FOOTBALL! OK, so that's not how it works, it's six more weeks of winter, but shouldn't we get six more weeks of football as well? I mean its the only thing that makes these cold winters bearable. (sidebar: when was the last time Punxsutawny Phil actually didn't see his shadow? seriously....) Well, rest assured our government is working on a solution. I'm glad our government is getting to the crux of our country's problems, I mean this has gone on too long. Let's fix the way we pick a champion in college football.
The BCS, in fact, reminds me a lot of the movie "Groundhog's Day" featuring Bill Murray, a reporter covering Punxsutawny Phil who wakes up every morning replaying Groundhog's Day. The BCS is seemingly the same, we get to December every year and 3 or 4 or more schools seemingly have a claim on one of the two coveted spots in the BCS National Championship Game. It never fails and yet we wake up every year on the sunday after the conference championship games with the same problem. So, I've developed a solution to both our problems, that of course being crowning a national champion and living through six weeks of winter without football. A 96 TEAM PLAYOFF!
That's right, this solves all of our problems. Every team that realistically has a claim on the National Championship (and many more that don't) gets there chance. In fact, all of the bowl eligible teams in 2009 would get a chance (there were 71). Not only that, but this gives us seven more weeks of meaningful college football! Alright, so here's how it works. The first week the top 32 teams get a bye with the bottom 64 teams matching up. Then the second week the top 32 teams join the party making it a 64 team tournament a la March Madness, with the exception that only one round is played every weekend instead of two. For this year, you start the first set of games the weekend around New Year's Day and then it continues the six weeks after. That means right now you would be anticipating two more weekends of the best college football of the year, and Valentine's Day weekend you would have your one true love - college football. BRILLIANT!
Now, I know what you're thinking, there's still four more weeks of winter that isn't covered here. No worries, the NFL would not want to share their postseason with college football, thus they would push back there season (which seems to be happening every year anyway) and likely add at least two more weeks to the regular season (they're talking about this anyway), which of course means more football to watch. So, the four weeks of the NFL playoffs start the weekend after the National Championship Game and we have football through all of winter. Football fans win! There you have it, a solution to solving the winter doldrums we face due to the lack of the warmth that football provides in our life. President Obama, can you please start working on this.
Note that I in fact support a Plus One system that would create what amounts to a four team playoff with the BCS Championship game being played by the winners of two national semifinals played in two of the four BCS bowls, by the top four teams, on a rotating basis. Should schools/conferences be opposed to two less BCS teams, I would make the Cotton Bowl the fifth BCS bowl and add it to the rotation.
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