First step towards a playoff
Looks like the Energy and Commerce committee passed an initial legislation to ban the promotion of a National Championship game unless that game was a result of a playoff.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4727426
December 9th, 2009 at 4:09 PM ^
Along the same lines, I am looking forward to Congress finally cracking down on the "World Series."
This is all silliness anyway. If this passes, that #1 vs #2 game will be re-named the "BCS Bowl" or the "Final Contest" or the "Super Game" or something along those lines. What this has absolutely no effect on at all is whether or not there will be preliminary games before the final.
December 9th, 2009 at 2:43 PM ^
The clueless boys and girls in Washington are sure to fix college football just like they've fixed the economy, and General Motors, and steroid usage in baseball!
December 9th, 2009 at 2:53 PM ^
...like how about a bill to ban the use of college hostesses to lure recruits?
December 9th, 2009 at 3:05 PM ^
(insert "Congressional probe" joke here...)
December 9th, 2009 at 3:24 PM ^
That's the major recruiting tool of every team south of the Mason Dixon line!! That's totally sexist to suggest females can't be recruiters as well (/sarcasm/)
December 10th, 2009 at 1:36 PM ^
Should be to eliminate preseason rankings. Then what should happen is this: (Shamelessly stolen from someone at SI.com)
Utah & BSU join the Pac10 to make a conference champ there.
Missouri bolts for Big10 country to make a conference champ game there.
TCU slides into Missouri's spot in the Big12.
ND (I don't see that happening) joins the BigEast, and if they don't there are plenty of fits for that conference. Central Florida and Memphis and Marshall?
That leaves everyone with a conference championship game, then go from there. I just find it amusing how the continued argument of students missing classes because of an expanded football playoff is in effect, when Alabama announced all those days off for the NC game. Not to mention that teams went from 11 to 12 game schedules and now some are even playing 13, without a conference championship.