Why I oppose a Playoff in College Football

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Why an eight team playoff won't work
Published 5/19/2008 at Fanblogs.com
Good buddy, good pal Paul Westerdawg has a great post up today looking at the prospect of a college football playoff over at his Georgia Sports Blog. PWD has one big concern about a playoff, but it might not be what you expect. While everyone is concerned with "mission creep" (the needless expansion of a playoff from 4 teams, to 8, to 16, to 32, and so on), PWD highlights one of the biggest obstacles to a successful college football playoff: the backroom. My issue is related to the NCAA's fundamental inability to develop a system ...

Playoff Quotable
Published 5/19/2008 by CFR at CollegeFootballResource.com
... ALSO: Georgia Sports Blog comes out against a playoff.  The list of people against a playoff in college football continues to grow.  A decent handful of them are listed under "The Coalition" on the menu at left. ...

PM Roundup: McCain + Blogs; Seinfeld + Cubs
Published 5/19/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
If you like teen angst, you’ll enjoy the bad Gossip Girl and the nice Friday Night Lights girl … Against a college football playoff. (Georgia Sports Blog) Is this a joke? John McCain loves sports blogs? (Randball) New Yorker Jerry Seinfeld goes to Wrigley, wears a Cubs hat. The NY papers will hammer him tomorrow. (Clubhouse Cancer) via Hot Clicks Terrifying story of a third base coach drilled in the head with a foul ball. (ESPN) Attempting to touch the heat from a 6-foot-8 college ...

"Playoffs?!?!": A Reply to Garnet and Black Attack's Modest Proposal (Part II)
Published 5/20/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
... underway, I offered a partial response to the playoff proposal put forth by Garnet and Black Attack’s Brandon before he went fishing (metaphorically, of course). I was pleased to see this subject generate some discussion, particularly since Brandon’s subsequent posting upon the subject helped to highlight the extent to which this has been a topic of offseason discussion at Addicted to Quack, Around the Oval, the Georgia Sports Blog, MGoBlog (on multiple occasions, in fact), and, of ...

Your Postseason Is Bad and You Shoud Feel Bad
Published 5/20/2008 by TH <info@carolinamarch.com> at Carolina March: Front Page Posts
... with the idea of a sensible postseason, the football blogosphere has spit out any number of reasons why the current ad hoc system is awesome and the introduction of rationality into the system would ruin everything. And they're pretty much the same arguments that have been for years, which I'm tired of reading (and writing) about, so for the most part I've ignored it. But one post caught my eye, since it made the mistake of focusing on 2006, the season I spent so much time debating the merits of playoffs in: ...

"Playoffs?!?!": A Reply to Garnet and Black Attack's Modest Proposal (Part III)
Published 5/21/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
... For me, the bottom line is that I agree with Paul Westerdawg that the problems inherent in designing a playoff system would guarantee that it would work badly, certainly in the long term (with ...