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Eliminate League Title Games
Published: 11/30/2006 11:07 AM
Last Modified: 11/30/2006 11:07 AM

Oklahoma, playing in the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday, will play 14 games this year.
Even with an expanded schedule to 12 regular season games, which would appear permanent, college football could add a playoff with very little effort.
Eliminate the conference championship games.
Now, play an eight-team playoff and you've got the national championship tournament most believe would enhance college football.
Heck, cut back the regular season to 11 games and you could have a 16-team playoff.
Either way, it would add just one game to what many of the top team now play.
Sure, there would have to be some tinkering to ensure the survival of the bowl system.
I love the bowls. It gives about half of the college football teams in the nation and reason to brag at the end of the year.
Still, by eliminating the conference championship games and adding one game we could have a true national champion.
Some believe the controversy around debates over college football are good for the sport. Why? Wouldn't a playoff create just as much buzz and excitement as the raging debates over who belongs in the BCS title game?
Plus, eliminating the conference championship games would level the playing field. Instead of Ohio State getting a bye to the national title game, it would have to win a game or two to get to the big game.
Let the title game teams be decided on the field, not by a bunch of BCS computers.



Reader Comments 1 Total
Johnny D. Cloud (6 years ago)
The time has come for a playoff in divisiom 1 football. It would be very easy. Leave all but the current nonBCS bowls as they are. Take the four BCS bowls and put the top eight teams in them , seeded as in any other tournament(1vs8, 2vs7, 3vs6,4vs5) the winners could then play the next week ,with a true championship game played one week later.
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