Mr. Picker, how can a system be "arbitrary" when the same formula is applied to each school and the schools are made aware of that formula before the season starts? And . . . how do you conduct a play-off without a selection process which could also go awry?

You give mud wrestling a network contract and easily top 10....as long as it's female mud wrestling, male mud wrestling would probably be top three in San Francisco and various places in the deep deep south....

Mud Wrestlin’ behind NASCAR?

Dancin’ w/ the Stars is Top 10. Their TV ratings “easily” beat NBA/NHL/MLB

College Football for yrs has played 2nd fiddle to Pro, not because of the BCS but because Pro has a much larger following per team. Notre Dame can’t even come close to matching the “Ratings” the Dallas Cowboys pull in.

What happen to the X Games? They draw a huge audience of today’s youth.

Strongman Competition, Cheerleading Contest, & Bodybuilding Judging, didn’t make the cut??
I guess, da’ Snicker still under the influence of all them Mint Juleps from last weekin’.

Curling? Lumberjack Competition? Women's Volleyball?

Is this a regional post? If not, then having NASCAR that low is a joke. Im no fan of it but about 250k people PER RACE would disagree with you. Not to mention a huge TV audience. Please, tennis majors ahead of the NBA finals?? Stir it up Pick!

And Kryptonite once again proves that being dropped on your head 16 times by your parents ("accidentally") does cause long term brain damage.

Usually, pointing and laughing is rude but in this case, go ahead kids.

Alpha, intelligent input on soccer. I mean it's not as if it is the most popular sport in the world, right?

By the way, exactly how is soccer not a sport?

Gene, it's really very simple.

An eight-team college playoff would involve, well, eight teams.

How do you get the best eight? Same as since the beginning of time -- some poll. Cheating team number nine is much less crooked than cheating teams number three, four or five.

You play the first round, four games, between the end of the regular season and the start of the cheesy bowls. Highest ranked teams get the home games. There's six, seven weeks in layoff time, in the first place.

The semi-finals would be played on Jan. 1, two games in two major bowls. Rotate the bowls every year. The championship game, two weeks later.

Presto, a fair winner based on play on the field. All bowls survive. New Year's Day is once again a focal point. The champ would win three games, not one, frequently at home.

If you went to 16 teams, it would be the same basic format, one game before Jan. 1, four games then, two after.

The eight-team plan seems best, as there is usually a steep dropoff in talent after the top half dozen.

The exhibition system presently employed is officially a joke. The winning team should borrow an asterisk from the baseball steriod freaks. The asterisk would mean: not settled on the field.

I am usually on the other side of the Picker, but I am with him on this one.

Listen, complainers....yes there would be controversy about the eight - after all, there is controversy about #65 in the NCAA tourney - but that is infinitely better than the current system.

The BCS poll.

Give it something to do.

Nice pick on the favorite. Eight, nine more of those, you'll be halfway to even.

Only chumps pick favorites.