God bless the NFL playoffs!

[TheJON]

I can't wait for the Super Bowl. It sure will be nice to see the real champion win. And not some game between disputable teams played over a month after each team plays their last regular season game. I love attending bowl games. Been to Iowa's last 5 bowl games. But enough is enough. College football is the laughingstock of the country. Get rid of the bowl games and give me a damn playoff......IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SEASON ENDS. Bowl games have absolutely no meaning and the only one that does doesn't prove anything because the game is played so long after the regular season or it can be disputed who should play in the game. And this is coming from someone that absolutely loves attending bowl games. But unless you're in the championship game, if you win, there's nothing really to celebrate. And if you lose, there's nothing really to be pissed about. All it means is you won or lost 1 more game. Big fucking deal. I'm also tired of the "a playoff would ruin the regular season." How so? The regular season only matters if you're a big name program anyways. If you're Boise State, it has no meaning anyways because you can't play for a national title. Or if you're ranked low early on and a couple teams in front of you do not lose, you cannot play for the title anyways because you won't be able to leapfrog them (see Auburn in 2004). Heck, we had the consensus #1 team not even playing in the national title game (USC) a couple years ago. There's something wrong with that.

Florida played a great game last night, but they proved NOTHING. I know, I know, I'm a bitter Big-10 fan. WRONG! I was rooting like crazy for Florida. But the fact remains, their victory only proved they were much fresher than Ohio State. Give any team 50 days off and they are gonna play like crap too. Why do you think the underdogs are winning the title game so often? Because after 40+ days of not playing games, you're never gonna get a teams A game. Florida (2006), Texas (2005), Ohio State (2002), etc.....those teams would have been ass raped by the team they beat had the game been played right after the regular season started or in a playoff setting.

I say, give me an 8 team playoff. We'll play the first round 2 weeks after the regular season is over. 4 games at 4 pre-determind sights. The semifinals will be a week after that and the championship game on January 2nd. Games are all on Saturdays so no worry about missing finals or interrupting the NFL regular season.

Everyone else just goes to normal bowl games. So for the traditionalists, you'll still get your New Years Day bowls and all the other ones. Everyone gets what they want, everyone is happy. If you don't like this system, you flat out don't like football and you're not willing to compromise. The regular season doesn't lose it's meaning because only 8 out of 117 teams make it into the playoffs, and we won't be losing the traditional bowl games. It's perfect. And spare me the "well, this would just ruin the meaning of the bowl games" crap. They have no or very little meaning anyways. Nothing would change.

[Killian]

Because after 40+ days of not playing games, you're never gonna get a teams A game. Florida (2006), Texas (2005), Ohio State (2002), etc.....those teams would have been ass raped by the team they beat had the game been played right after the regular season started or in a playoff setting.

Two things:

(1) Embrace the "Enter" key. Honestly, it is your friend.

(2) Stop throwing your non-sensical rape juice all over this board.

[TheJON]

Did it again.....

Brought up good points, touched people's nerves, and they resort to either name calling and/or no ability to dispute my points. Which proves my theory that I'm always right.

[Killian]

Did it again.....

Brought up good points, touched people's nerves, and they resort to either name calling and/or no ability to dispute my points. Which proves my theory that I'm always right.

No, your points are idiotic, and there are a number of other threads about playoffs. What it proved was that you don't know how to use the search function on these boards, and you love droping to your knees, spreading your ass cheeks and begging for a plunger.

[TheJON]

What points are idiotic???????

Let me guess.....the ones about the bowls having no meaning????? I'd like to hear one person dispute that.
Or that beating the Buckeyes 50 days after the Bucks last played proves nothing?? Would love a response on that.

My points are not idiotic, in fact, I'd venture to guess they're the opinion of the majority (maybe not on this board, but in the sports world).

[Killian]

Because after 40+ days of not playing games, you're never gonna get a teams A game. Florida (2006), Texas (2005), Ohio State (2002), etc.....those teams would have been ass raped by the team they beat had the game been played right after the regular season started or in a playoff setting.

I would say USC, Texas, OU, OSU and any other number of teams would disagree with you. Plenty of teams come out with their "A game". OSU was flat.

[TheJON]

No more than 1 team plays well in nearly every single championship game.

Think about it....

USC last year played average.
Oklahoma 2 years ago played flat out horrible.
Oklahoma 3 years ago also played flat out horrible.
Miami in 2002 had their worst game of the year except for that Rutgers game.
Nebraska didn't even deserve to be in the game in 2001.
Floridia State played their worst game of the year in 2000.
Etc....

Wouldn't it be nice to actually have 2 teams show up for the game instead of 1 team? And don't even try coming back with "well, it just looked like they played like crap because the other team forced them to play bad." Bullshit. They played liked shit because they had such a long layoff. Anyone that follows football could easilly tell OSU was a step slower last night than normal. That wasn't the tOSU team we've seen all year and Florida wasn't the reason for their struggles. Expecting a team to come out and play their best game after 50 days is asking too much. Inferior teams do not deserve over a month to come up with a gameplan to defeat the favorite. It's unfair. I don't blame Tressel at all for the loss. I'd like to see Urban Meyer go 50 days without playing a game and try and devise a gameplan to defeat an opponent that's been given constant motivation by the media and fans all the while your team has spent 50 days hearing about how great they are. I'd love to see Urban try and get his team ready for that. I want a real championship game, not this crap.

[Killian]

Your point would hold some water if both teams played like shit, but that isn't the case.

[TheJON]

Try preparing a team to be ready to play when they are up against a team that has a HUGE emotional edge. It's nearly impossible in college football. Florida had it this year, Texas had it last year. This year specifically......why is it fair for Ohio State to play the entire season as the #1 team while playing so well, then have to take 50 days off before playing in a championship game? And on top of that, have all of your players told how great they are and then have to emotionally prepare them for a team that played 2 weeks after them and has a chip on their shoulders. How on earth would they be able to match Florida's intensity. That's not Tressel's fault. No coach could have had them ready to play.

Just because 1 team plays well doesn't disprove my theory. It just means that one coaching staff did a better job of devising a gameplan in over a months time or that 1 team was less rusty than the other. Urban Meyer came up with a brilliant gameplan. Dude had over a month to figure it out. What does that prove? If given less time to get ready, that's less days of being able to play the "no one is giving us a chance" card, less time for tOSU players to hear "you're gonna kill them", and less time for each coach to prepare for the other team. It would be like us being in a class together and having a test tomorrow and I was prepared for it but you weren't. Then, we get to class and the professor comes down with dysentary and is out for a couple weeks and gives us the test when he gets back. Then, you get 2 weeks to actually study for the test, get a higher score because you spent the last 2 weeks busting your ass for the test when I focused on other things in those 2 weeks since I already knew enough to get a decent score. Then, you start running smack at me for getting a higher score simply because you got extra time to prepare. That's kinda how it went for Florida. They got uneccesary time to prepare for a game they would have been donkey punched in 40 days ago, and now they're the ones running smack. It's not fair.

[the_ouskull]

Floridia State played their worst game of the year in 2000.

OU's defense FORCED their worst game of the year. Get it straight.

...and in 2003, OU didn't play its worst game of the season... LSU's defense FORCED our worst game of the season. (Well, second worst...fuckin' KSU.)

There are two sides to the ball Jon. Maybe they didn't teach you that up in Iowa. :D

the_ouskull

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Florida played a great game last night, but they proved NOTHING.

They didn't have to "prove" anything to some dipshit like you.

There's a system in place that awards a national champion. Florida was the top beneficiary of this system, and was therefore, crowned the national champion.

They're the 2007 Champs. This is fact. Beyond that, nothing else matters.