Lloyd Carr beating the playoff drum

It's not an either/or.  I think there will be a playoff system eventually, which will exist in addition to the bowls.  I don't imagine there will be some announcement declaring, "Okay, we are instituting a playoff system..."  Instead, there will be continued evolution of the current model until it resembles enough of a playoff that you can call it that.

Keep in mind that before 1993 or so there was nothing in place like there is now.  First came the Bowl Alliance, then the BCS, now the "BCS +1."  It's only a step or two away from a de facto 4- or 8-team playoff, especially when you factor in the effect of the conference championship games.

The NCAA and universities are losing millions and millions of dollars by letting a random organization (The BCS) run their most valuable product.

Think about it, why doesn't the MGOBLOG community launch the BCS 2.0 where we organize everything and host playoff games then take most of the profit. Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Well, that's essentially what is happening. Move it to a playoff run by the NCAA and the money will flow in like it never has before.

Because, very rarely would you see a team that most believe might be the best team in the country that is not ranked in the top four.  GO BLUE!!

I'd much rather see Florida or USC types have to travel to Big 10 country in November to play a post season away game.

Here's the problem: No one in college football cares about your "solution".

People who are in favor a college football playoff are really in favor of their own vision of a college football playoff. So when surveys are conducted, fans are always going to be "in favor" of a playoff system over the BCS because the playoff alternative isn't defined. Instead, everyone's imagining their own tidy little vision of a playoff system.

Most everyone who's for a playoff will change their vote once they see it's not their idea being adopted, and instead it's a crappy, watered down playoff still based on a political voting system (which is absolutely unavoidable with so many schools).

for independents (like ND).  Every team must have an opportunity to win the National title. So maybe the 11 conference champs plus one wild card... top 4 seeds get a bye, sort of like NFL.  I'd rather 16.  Just think of all of the great matchups! I'll make a mock 16-team playoff at the close of this season so people can see what they're missing out on.

Champions of six major conferences plus two at large bids.  During conference championship week, with six conference championship games, four teams could play for the two at-large berths.  That would produce a de facto sixteen game playoff.  They could play a quarterfinal round the week after confference championships, use two rotating bowls for semis, and play the title game exactly when they do now: Jaunary 8.

That would make the bowls exactly as they are now, other than two of the NYD bowls being pre-selected semis.  The bowls win, the players win, the schools win, and the fans win.  Most of all, the sport wins.  If the bowls feel that semis would denigrate their bowls and wanted the bowls to play out exactly as they do now, the semis could be the second week of December, and the players, not having to play until Jaunary 7, could spend Christmas at home celebrating the end of finals.

No muss, no fuss, no bullshit.  Which is exactly why it won't happen.

I mean, he mentions coaching against Bama in a bowl game as one. Interconnections, coincidences. Because Lloyd is NOT a fan of Saban, going back to those MSU days. He was dirty then, too.