BCS Championship

Currently Alabama is beating a McCoy Colt-less Longhorn team 24-6 with about 3:00 left in the 3rd Quarter.

This reaffirms my feeling that Florida should have played Alabama for the National Championship, and I know, it would have been a rematch of the SEC Championship, but it would have been the right matchup.

I think a playoff is a great idea, I just don't know how it works practically.  Conference play ends about the end of November, and Bowls occur at about the end of December to the beginning of January.  Roughly a month or four weeks to prepare for one game.  Even if you had a four team playoff, when would you play those games?  All three games (the semi-finals and the national championship)[I suppose they should play four games, one for third place as well, right?] would WANT to be featured games, which are reserved for the end of December and beginning of January.

I suppose you could play the Semi's first, and then the BCS Championship today, but then it would give standard bowl teams a month to prepare while it would give finalists about 2 weeks per game.  Is that fair?  Well, they would get the opportunity to play in two "bowl" games, and direct chance at the national title.

If you wanted more teams in a playoff than 4 teams I don't know how the schedule would work.  You'd need eight teams, because if you had six teams, two would have to get bye weeks, and what determines a bye week in a bowl-based college-playoff?  It all gets very complicated.  I just think the current system doesn't work very well.

My solution: have a four team playoff.  Have the semi-final games on the same day, some day before Christmas.  That would give the school about 3 weeks to prepare for the one game, and prepare their advanced scouts.  Then they would play in about 2 weeks for the Championship or for the consolation game. Should there be a consolation game?  I feel like it might be anti-climactic, but still, it's football.  I'd watch.

*NOTE* - It's now the end of the 3rd Quarter, and Texas has scored to make it 24-13.  I will look mighty foolish (see my first two sentences of the post) if Texas is able to make this close or win.  Wow.  Maybe I shouldn't hit the "Publish Post" button just yet... ah, fuck it...