Between his kick-ass takedown of Tiger Woods’ whiny press conference last week and this, one of the best arguments for a college football I-A (that’s right, I said it the old school way) playoff I’ve yet seen, Dan Wetzel’s gonna be getting a lot more traffic from my direction. As for the playoffs, though, still don’t see the powers-that-be caving and going with them till long-time advocate Joe Paterno retires. You know, in 2021.
Higher seeds get home games early
Home games would pump up local economies too. It’s not the people in Ohio’s job to drop their disposable income in Pasadena; they might consider doing it right at home. The entire “economic impact” theory for bowl games makes no sense on a national scale (which this is) because it’s just displaced spending. Just a guess, but I’m sure the guy running the Columbus Applebee’s would enjoy a crowd as much as the guy running the one in Tempe.
Most importantly it would also reward the higher seeds (again placing value on the regular season) by providing the distinct advantage of playing at home. (The visiting team would get the same small ticket allotment it currently gets). To be a top-two seed, and host through the championships game, would be a considerable advantage.
This would also placate complaints from northern teams who are seemingly always playing bowl games near the campus of their opponent. The Big Ten’s been getting slaughtered of late in bowl games. Well, let’s see Florida or LSU slide around in the snow of Happy Valley some time. [Been tellin' these Pac-10 wussies that last sentence for years.]
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I had a great time covering Ohio State games and going to the Columbus Applebees.
Amen on that last line. I want to see Florida or LSU come up to the Horseshoe or The Big House in late November. Better yet, play a game in Minnesota’s new stadium.
It’s lunacy that we do not do this.
Imagine the NCAA basketball tourney, March Madness. Now, multiply that by a bazillion and square it. That’s what a 3 – 4 week, NCAA football playoff would be. The NCAA would make so much money all College tuition would be free, forever.
I think the better teams would win most of the time regardless of where the game was played snow or not.
I would also counter the folks who are wanting FL, TX, AL, MS, CA teams to play in the snow in NOV, to play their AUG and SEP games in the South…let’s see how they handle the heat, fair’s fair.
So you want the playoff in August, BEFORE the season starts? Wouldn’t that interfere with the WNBA playoffs?
WNBA’s still around?
Dude Wisconsin is just as gross in September as it is in the south. Trust me. Just has humid and hot. The hottest spot in the country one year was in my hometown. That winter it was also the coldest spot
No, but what makes you think the playoffs would be held up North?
I never wrote that they would, and I agree with your comment that the warm weather teams would fair fine if they did. A lot of the key players on northern teams are from California, Florida and Texas already, and they’ve adapted just fine.
OOO! The Big House….the Horseshoe! Yeah,the boys from Tuscaloosa and Austin are just shivering!
The world lives in terror of Michigan football
Quiet, you. The college football world loves Rich Rodriguez, especially students and alum from Penn State and University of Toledo. Matters not to Jimmy T, though, who’s been loving that trip west till you smell it and north till you step in it for quite some time. OK, two compliments to Ohio college football that didn’t involve the Cincy Bearcats or BG Falcons. I gotta go shower…
P.S. I’m 100% in the Longhorns’ corner (and love me some Mack Brown football), but the boys from Austin should be saying their prayers and/or beating Colt McCoy senseless for that piss-poor clock management the other night. But for the grace of God (who may be a Texan after all), Cincinnati or the Horned Frogs would be playing in Pasadena on 1/7.
God (who may be a Texan after all)
May? MAY? You, sir, are no Christian.
Why is it that I get a big kick out of Texans who say stuff like that?
Also, I miss Hank Hill.
Sorry, Tracy, while I guess the rest of us now know the answer to the question “Heaven, hell or Houston,” I get distracted by the fact He has a mountain home in my old neck of the woods.