Comments on: January 6, 2009 http://johnrlong.com/2009/01/06/january-6-2009/ I just blather on and on about stuff that interests me, mostly politics and sex and sometimes movies and art. Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:42:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: laocoon http://johnrlong.com/2009/01/06/january-6-2009/#comment-600 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:44:31 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/?p=1303#comment-600 @Nina.
That may be more true than you think.

]]> By: nina http://johnrlong.com/2009/01/06/january-6-2009/#comment-599 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:40:47 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/?p=1303#comment-599 I don’t want to be on hiatus anymore.

And I am not difficult. I am quite pleasant and open actually.

The key is merely lost to my panties and I need help finding it!

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]]> By: ultimate http://johnrlong.com/2009/01/06/january-6-2009/#comment-597 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:32:01 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/?p=1303#comment-597 There is no national championship in college football. College football is a sissy sport played by sissies, no better than figure skating or gymnastics where judges decide the outcome. So call it what you will, but it’s a mythical national championship (MNC) and will continue to lose interest amongst fans until there’s a playoff, like there is in the lower divisions of college football and all other collegiate sports.

Here’s my proposal to solve this mess:

The top 24 teams make the national collegiate football championship. Of those, the top 16 play one weekend to decide who gets to play the top eight teams (conference champions who get a bye) in two weeks. You eliminate the 12th regular season game played now and the conference championships. How you pick the top 24 is irrelevant because those teams have to win it on the field to be national champs and winning your conference still means something because you get a bye if you do.

The next 32 teams play in a college football invitational, a second lower level championship. This allows you to have nearly as many teams involved in post season play as in the current bowl system in a second tier championship where it’s win or go home.

The TV audiences for both tournaments would be huge, especially when compared to the current sissy system. Do you really care who plays in the Humanitarian Bowl? You would if the game determined if your team went home or who your team played next week. As I read somewhere, there were more games played on New Years Eve than on New Years Day. I no longer care about any of the bowls that my team is not in, including whatever the thing OU and Florida are playing in on Thursday.

Just like in the national basketball tournaments, the polls and computer rankings would be mostly irrelevant. Sure, you’d have to do some seeding, but the same deal would be that your team has to win or go home. You’d be playing for the national championship and not the Fiesta Bowl championship as Texas was last night. Does anyone really care who the Holiday Bowl champion was? A team with a couple of losses could get hot and win it all.

For most teams, this wouldn’t add any more games to the schedule than they have now. Assuming OU and Florida advanced, this would add two more games to the schedule they’ve played this year, albeit with a tougher schedule at the end. That would have given them something to do between Thanksgiving and the second week in January. You OU fans aren’t afraid to play tougher opponents at the end are you?

Talk amongst yourselves while I sort this out with President Obama…

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