8 thoughts on “It’s Bowling Time!”

1. Everyone has their solution. Here’s mine:

   >8-Team Playoff

   >Conference Champions ONLY (if you aren’t the best in your league, you cannot be the best in the nation)

   >No Independent team will be considered eligible without an undefeated record and a ranking that surpasses the 5th-best Conference Champion.

   >Quarterfinals played on Christmas Day (afternoon and night start times), Semifinals played on New Year’s Day(night start times), Championship played on evening of Jan. 8.

   >BCS Ranking system is retained for the purpose of seeding the Top 8 Conference Champions

   >Only exceptions to seeding process: Pac 12 and Big Ten Champions will automatically qualify and pared together without regard to seeding, and the quarterfinal round must not match teams that have met during the regular season.

   >Pac 12 and Big Ten Winners will meet in quarterfinal game in Pasadena, Calif.

   >Sites of games will be selected by the same procedure used for hosting other Div. I championships.

   >Bowls must adhere to the following restrictions: No games played concurrently with tournament games and games must be played no earlier than Dec. 17 and no later than Jan 2.

   Under my system:

   Oregon vs. Wisconsin (Pasadena, Calif.)

   Auburn vs. Central Florida (New Orleans, La.)

   Texas Christian vs. Virginia Tech (Miami, Fla.)

   Oklahoma vs. Nevada (Glendale, Ariz.)

2. Dear Mr. Litton,

   Once again the yearly reaming (nicest word I could use to describe my feeling) of the non-big allience schools (Big 12, Pac-10, Big-10, etc, etc.) has taken place. Not that I expected anything different. If Auburn and/or Oregon had slipped I have no doubt that the powers that be would have found some logical (ha, ha, ha) reason to put a 1-loss team ahead of TCU. Plus what about Boise State? They lose one game and the NCAA couldn’t wait to punish them for daring to possibly play in their championship game by sending them to the “Out in the Boonie’s Bowl” (all right it’s really the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl, but it might as well have been called the “Out in the Boonie’s Bowl”

   I’m sure the NCAA is hoping to double punish the Boise States with this insult. Deny them the limelight of a New Years Eve/Day game, plus I’m willing to be the college will only get maybe (I’m guessing on this one) maybe $500,000 instead of the (guessing again) $10-12 million of a major bowl.

   I remember the stink people made about Boise State making a major college bowl and how the “experts” said Oklahoma would wipe the floor with them being a “traditional college power” Of course we know what happened. Boise State won in OT. The Boise States and TCU’s continue to defy those “experts”

   I know this is a lot longer than my usual letter. I’m not feeling well and when I’m that way little things upset me more. Bottom line is that any “National Champion” will be little more than a guessing game until we get that playoff.

   I apologize for being cranky tonight.

   All the best

   Louis

3. Good Morning from Omaha,

   a playoff system would be great. they do playoffs in DIIl and DIII.That seems to work very well in determining a true champion, last year NWMSU won again!, way to go bearcats, It seems the kids don’t miss that much school time, which is something that the presidents of the institutions seem to be hung up on.

   If education was what they were about they wouldn’t use their football teams as their designated gladiators and throw all that money down the well and into locker rooms, video boards and stadium expansions but into programs that increase graduation rates, updated resources for education, and lower tuition rates.

   I love football as much if not more than the next guy, but the phonyness of the presidents and the a.d.’s reeks to the high heavens. When it comes out that the NE quarterback spent 5 hours a day in rehab for his ankle and practiced AND went to class- yeah right.

   Set up a real playoff system and decide who the true champs are once and for all. Using the current system allows everyone to have a bit of bragging rights and keeps the debate alive.

   Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

   Gene

4. Dear Mr. Litton (again)

   For several years the comic strip “Tank McNamara” would run an end of year strip involving the two worst teams in college football being awarded a bowl bid. I forgot what they called the bowl but it seems like every year we get closer and closer to that type of bowl being a reality. On a side not I find myself wondering how can all these sponsers still find the money to sponser these bowls with the eoonomic situation the way it is?

   All the best (again)

   Louis

5. I would love to see the non-BCS conference should start a playoff system between themselves, make a lot of money, get very popular and not let the BCS conference schools in when they realize it is a good thing to have playoffs and not bowls.

6. This toon is definitely very fitting to my Red Raiders and their surprise bid to the once_named Cotton Bowl.

7. Phenomenal debate you guys! Great ideas and good points. I love this kind of discussion. I don’t know if they will ever find a way to finally have playoffs. The whole Bowl system, antiquated as it is, has some very powerful and wealthy people behind it. The NCAA makes decisions based on the whims and wants of those people. It’s a tough and challenging road to get to the Playoffs.

8. Can’t make myself take this too seriously. Oregonians are all happy campers, tho, they get to be 1 or 2 for a year. Or is that Phil Knight……