[NU Sports] Playoff time!

[Jim Bendat]

I agree that we should have a 4-team playoff.  Yet, logistics might 
prove to be a problem many years.  Here's what I mean:  if you set up 
the bowls to have 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 in the semis (or 1 vs.3 and 2 vs. 
4 in order to avoid an inter-conference matchup in the semis), I assume 
you'd want to rotate the sites.  So, what happens in years when it's not 
the Rose Bowl's turn to host any of those big games?  -- You're going to 
have, for example, SC, Michigan and Ohio State all playing in the 
semi-final sites other than Pasadena, and the Rose Bowl gets stuck with 
Wake Forest or Boise State?  I don't have an answer, but I could see 
many scenarios where we have problems as I've suggested.


Arthur Miller wrote:
> I agree that we should keep the bowl system, but reluctantly have come to
> believe a four-team playoff system would be workable.  Take the top 4 BCS
> teams, seeded according to their place in the BCS standings, then add hold
> the BCS Championship two weeks after the BCS bowl games.  It would only add
> one additional postseason game, and would still maintain the importance of
> regular-season games.  To me, an 8- or 16-team playoff would be ludicrous.
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