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[Cripplecreek]

I'm with Batman on this one. A playoff system is WAAAAY overdue and can't understand why the powers that be in college football don't see that! Yeah, I yelled and rooted for the Gators last night even though they beat my beloved Razorbacks this past season. We SEC teams may go at each other fast and furious when we play each other in the regular season but we stick by and support each other in the major bowl games, especially the BCS championship game last night. GREAT JOB, GATORS!! You guys brought a national championship to the SEC and did us proud! :rock:

You got that right flyer, Florida's arch enemy is the Tennessee Vols, but me and alot of Gator fans I know would still root for them in a bowl game, to bad they lost to Penn St. they let it get away from them in the 4th quarter. The SEC all the way.

[RaiderNation]

There are certainly rumblings of a playoff system but i believe that the soonest it would be implemented would be 2010.

[yoopr]

"Rumblings" have been going on about the BCS forever and nothing ever gets done.

However, the good thing about it is that the National Champion should be Boise State

Agree 100%

[Toothpick]

Hey Yooper when a team gets beat 41 to 14 and gets owned like Ohio State did last night that’s not rust, that’s domination. It is obvious that Florida is a much better team top to bottom than Ohio State is. Moreover, the SEC is easily the strongest conference top to bottom in all of college football.

The Big 10 got exposed last night! I salute all those sportscasters who were nearly successful in forcing through an all Big 10 national championship, may those losers reap what they sow!

[yoopr]

no excuses for OSU but time between playing was 2 months and that's unexcuseable.

[Toothpick]

no excuses for OSU but time between playing was 2 months and that's unexcuseable.

I don’t agree with the long layoffs either because I’ve seen it work both ways, but the way OSU was owned last night was more than just rust, that was pure utter domination by a much better team, and a team that can’t get excited and motivated to play for the national championship doesn’t deserve to win. Nevertheless, I’ve been pushing for a playoff system for years.

I’d like to see the 117 division 1A teams divided up into 8 conferences with the 8 conference champions playing in a national championship tournament to start the week after the final conference championship is decided. At the same time we could keep the current bowl system we already have in place with the exception being that the 4 BCS bowls would become the semi-final championship games and a final championship collegiate super bowl would be added to be played the following week that would determine the eventual national champion.

As we have seen, the current BCS system is little more than a glorified popularity contest with the national press invariably always being biased in favor of teams from the north or the west coast.

[Toothpick]

the National Champion should be Boise State

If Boise State were in the SEC and had to play week in and week out the same difficult very tough schedule each SEC team has to play throughout the season, by the end of the season they would be so beat up that they would probably lose three games given the same caliber of opponents each SEC team must play. I agree that this season’s Boise State team was pretty good for not being a BCS team, but in no way are they a national championship caliber team given the level of their competition and the schedule that they play.

[Twilight Flyer]

If Boise State were in the SEC and had to play week in and week out the same difficult very tough schedule each SEC team has to play throughout the season, by the end of the season they would be so beat up that they would probably lose three games given the same caliber of opponents each SEC team must play. I agree that this season’s Boise State team was pretty good for not being a BCS team, but in no way are they a national championship caliber team given the level of their competition and the schedule that they play.

Pure conjecture, nothing more. You have no idea how Boise State would have done in the SEC. They went undefeated (only undefeated team in division 1-A0, beat 6 bowl teams this year, went undefeated, then beat Oklahoma in what was probably the best bowl game in recent history. Yet they are not National Champions because the BCS is exactly what it was not supposed to be...a popularity contest.

[Jackrabbit379]

We SEC teams may go at each other fast and furious when we play each other in the regular season but we stick by and support each other in the major bowl games

Maybe the SEC,but not the Big 12. :P

[Toothpick]

If Boise State were in the SEC and had to play week in and week out the same difficult very tough schedule each SEC team has to play throughout the season, by the end of the season they would be so beat up that they would probably lose three games given the same caliber of opponents each SEC team must play. I agree that this season’s Boise State team was pretty good for not being a BCS team, but in no way are they a national championship caliber team given the level of their competition and the schedule that they play.

Pure conjecture, nothing more. You have no idea how Boise State would have done in the SEC. They went undefeated (only undefeated team in division 1-A0, beat 6 bowl teams this year, went undefeated, then beat Oklahoma in what was probably the best bowl game in recent history. Yet they are not National Champions because the BCS is exactly what it was not supposed to be...a popularity contest.

Label it conjecture all you want, but apparently their number 5 ranking indicates that a hell of a lot more people agrees with me than agrees with you.

[Twilight Flyer]

hell of a lot more people

Exactly.

"Popularity contest."

Thanks for playing.

[Twilight Flyer]

I'll add a quick thing to that. I hate Boise State...I'm an Iowa State fan and the fact that ISU had to go play Boise State on their own homefield Smurf Turf for a bowl game a few years back, still rankles me. But facts are facts and undefeated is undefeated and that's what I'm basing my comments on.

[Cripplecreek]

The Gators have consistently mopped the floor with WAC and MAC teams. I don't believe Boise St would have a snowball's chance in hell of beating the Gators if they played next week or anytime for that matter. As a Gator fan I have too many times witnessed a MAC or WAC team come to the swamp and it ain't pretty, it's usually at least 50 points for the Gators and less than 17 for the other team.

I have said all along ,(scroll down a few posts) that ANY team that gives up 35+ points has no business playing for a national championship, that includes Michigan and Ohio ST. The Gators never gave up more than 29 the whole season. What did Boise St do in it's bowl victory? They gave up 42 points. What did Ohio St do against michigan? they gave up 39 points. Neither of them has anything that even remotely resembles a defense. how many point's did the Gators give up defensively? 7, now thats a defense.

All you folks that are bringing up Boise St, wouldn't even bring up boise St if Ohio St had beat the Gators. By your logic Ohio St and Boise state should have split the Championship, but you would never hear that cause Ohio St. is the Big Bad 10 right. I'm still scatching my head as to why they didn't rank Boise St #2 AHEAD OF OHIO ST in the final poll.

You want a playoff? How about Boise St steps onto the field at Neyland Stadium(VOLS) in front of 105,000 and then take them to Doak Cambell(Noles) , and then take em to Atlanta to face Arkansas, and if they win all of them, then they have earned the right to play The Mighty Gators

Oh it's great to be a Gator fan these days, better than sex, better than chocalate, it's almost better than fishin and drinkin beer, but not quite.

[Midnight Flyer]

Now I don't know about the better than sex part, Cripplecreek!!

[Adam9315]

I'm with Batman on this one. A playoff system is WAAAAY overdue and can't understand why the powers that be in college football don't see that! Yeah, I yelled and rooted for the Gators last night even though they beat my beloved Razorbacks this past season. We SEC teams may go at each other fast and furious when we play each other in the regular season but we stick by and support each other in the major bowl games, especially the BCS championship game last night. GREAT JOB, GATORS!! You guys brought a national championship to the SEC and did us proud! :rock:

You got that right flyer, Florida's arch enemy is the Tennessee Vols, but me and alot of Gator fans I know would still root for them in a bowl game, to bad they lost to Penn St. they let it get away from them in the 4th quarter. The SEC all the way.

Once the Gators came back to beat the vols 21-20 this season, I knew Florida was no joke this year. TN had that game won but got to complacent. Florida deserved it. I love the vols and always root against the Gators, but I was pulling for them all the way in the Fiesta Bowl.

[Cripplecreek]

Now I don't know about the better than sex part, Cripplecreek!!

Your right flyer, I may have been goin out on a limb there, thank goodness my significant other of 10 years doesn't care about trucking or college football. The clear history tool, what a wonderful thing.