Whats the big problem with a playoff system in Division 1A football?

It just makes more sense:


Take the top 8 or 16 teams in the BCS and put them in a regular playoff system! Sure people would be upset if their team was on the outside, but if that team was in theyd play the 1 or 2 seed, and your excluding the 9th or 17th team, not the third (who has a legit shot of winning)


For those who say it would interfere with academics: They arent in school in December, but your ok with teams playing on Tues Thurs and Fri when they actually have school?


Every other sport has a tournament why shouldnt Division 1A football?


You can take the big bowl games (Cotton Outback Capital One through Rose Orange etc) and make them the venues. Start the playoffs like the first week of bowl games.


If it is a 16 team then start on the 20th, play that weekend. then the next weekend etc. it would take an extra week true, but an 8 team would finish nicely on the first.

Whats the big problem with a playoff system in Division 1A football?
1 word - Money
Reply:It is not very complicated. The college presidents are against it because it would lengthen the season by a month or more. The season already lasts from mid August to early December. A playoff as you suggest would lengthen that too almost six months. Another issue is the bowl games, they produce a great deal of revenue for the colleges and they have been good to the NCAA for a long time. A playoff might nearly destroy the bowls as the emphasis would switch to just the few bowls. TV rights would dwindle and that is huge. The Big Ten loves the Rose Bowl. It gives fans a chance to get out of the snow and cold and go to CA for a couple of weeks. And it brings in huge revenue and publicity. I do not think the system will change just because TV people keep yelping and newspaper reporters want it. The people with the power do not want to do it. So sit back and enjoy what you have.
Reply:well first off I'm a Georgia fan. But if you take the division 1a football and have a tournament teams will not stress out a whole lot if there not a top 10 team because if your 16th or lower your in so if you go undefeated you get the same privilege as a team who lost 2-3 games. but in Georgia's case Georgia would like that because they have 2 losses and there is no way they can be national champions but if you have a playoff Georgia could be national champions so its not fare.
Reply:The main problem is people won't go to the games. Suppose your team is in the playoff. Do you plan a vacation and go see game 1? No, because you'd rather go to the final game and see your team. So, you just don't bother going at all. If out of town people don't show up at these "play off" games, the entire bowl suffers. The reason they have a rose bowl is to get people to come from out of town and spend money.





A playoff system would be great for the fans that watch on tv. It would suck for the real fans who go to the game, and it would suck for the student athletes.





I honestly believe the old "system" was better. You didn't always have a clear cut national champion, but that's better than the way Boise State was robbed last year.





The whole BCS should be scrapped, it's nonsense.
Reply:The only problem with a playoff system in div 1a is that there isn't one. We are stuck with Bull Cr@p System until we riot in the streets.





If anyone wishes to join in, I will provide pitch forks and torches.
Reply:Money and tradition is the obstacle
Reply:Because there are more than 16 companies that have bowl reservations, you take one out then the colleges lose more money if they wouldnt get in the bowl.





Plus history takes it course too, NCAA Men's B-Ball has always had a tournament while football is strictly bowl games





Plus this year NO team should be good enough to get in the BCS, come on KANSAS is UNDEFEATED
Reply:That is simple....MONEY,MONEY MONEY
Reply:Greedy college officials.
Reply:Thing is there may be an 8-3 team who is good and/or better that a 9-2 team, just because their schedule is tougher they wont got a shot to play in the National championship. And...everybody loves a team that you wouldnt expect to win, to win...like George mason a few years back, i loved to watch them play.