College Football Run Down

Another regular season of college football is in the books and it has done nothing to calm the calls from the masses for a playoff system in college football. Of course, until it becomes economically beneficial to the NCAA, we won't see a playoff. Personally, I'm fine with that.

If the point of the "system" is to find the best team, then I don't see how a playoff is any more accurate at finding that than the current system. Let's say you have a six team playoff and that the sixth team in is a two- or three-loss team (not true this year, but it certainly has been in past years). That team goes through two undefeated teams to wind the national championship. Is that team really a better team, or just better at the end of the season? When you play a team matters a lot in college football. Why is it that the way you are playing at the end of the year matters more than other points? Only because that's how other sports work so college football should work the same way?

From a competitive stand point the current system isn't great. You shouldn't reward a team for playing a weak out of conference schedule to help ensure an undefeated regular season. Texas, I'm looking at you and the overrated Big 12 Conference. We get so caught up with which conference was best and better. Was the Big 12 Conference the second best in the country this year? Maybe so. Was it considerably better than the PAC-10, Big East, ACC or Big 10? No.

Let's penalize teams for playing cupcakes, not reward them. Then you'd see better regular season games every year throughout the year, which is essentially what we want from a playoff: compelling games between good teams.

This would also open the door for consistently good mid-majors to join in the fray, because more majors would be willing to schedule them instead of other good programs in major conferences. In my mind this works out so well. The NCAA gets to keep the cash cow flowing and football fans see more really good match-ups. So I say, let's re-program the computers and see if we can't get this thing going!

Other college football thoughts:

• Bobby Bowden is leaving. He's a legend. I get it. Still, for that FSU to jump Clemson, Miami and UNC to play in the Gator Bowl just seems crazy. I know it's all about selling out and maximizing revenue, but can you really tell me that Clemson and WVU wouldn't have sold out their allotments if they were matched up?
• Mark Ingram won the Heisman. Before the SEC Championship Game he doesn't win it. Thanks to technological advancement he won it. He didn't deserve it any more or any less than Gerhart or McCoy, so the fact that he won it was fine with me. Plus you have keep in mind what the award has become: the best QB or RB on the best team in the country.
• If the Heisman went to the best player at his position, then it would have gone to Suh of Nebraska. He was a man amongst boys every time I saw him play this season.
• Best non-BCS bowl match-ups of the postseason? Try these: Cotton Bowl (Ole Miss vs. OK State), Chick-Fil-A (Tenn vs. VT), Capital One (Penn St vs. LSU), Sun Bowl (Oklahoma vs. Standord) and Meineke Car Care (Pitt vs. UNC). In other words, lots more college football to watch!