[NU Sports] Playoff time!

[Dennis W. Brandt]

Let's start a "draft Boise State" movement to get the only other undefeated 
team into the championship game.  Isn't that what happened to BYU some years 
back?  And they won!

This virtually annual thousandths-of-a-point juggling match is tiresome. 
Time for a playoff system.  Lo-o-o-o-ong past time.  The lesser college 
divisions have been doing it for years without imploding or having its 
football teams flunk out of school.  As to damaging the bowls, precisely how 
much injury could we cause to the likes of the Alamo Bowl et. al.?  They 
never represent the best teams in the country anyway, and the spectacle 
associated with the larger bowls will continue as before.  You could make 
one of the grand old bowls the championship game each year, which is 
precisely what is done now.  A playoff would probably require cutting at 
least one regular season game and forcing the regular season to end by 
Thanksgiving, but the resulting income to college football would more than 
make up for the shorter season.

P.S.  Hang our heads in shame.  New Hampshire yesterday lost to 
Massachusetts for the second time after barely beating Hampton, Maine (in 
OT), Hofstra, Delaware, being edged in OT by Northeastern, and getting 
thumped by that traditional football powerhouse James Madison.  Were we not 
ready to play football last September or what?