In case you haven’t heard about it, the ESPN College Football Playoff Simulator is about the the coolest thing since the Single Wing… well, maybe not that cool, but it’s one of the best ways to waste time I’ve seen in a while. As others have suggested (See Loser With Socks and Fulmer’s Belly) You have got to go check it out.

On a more fundamental level, I find that I am slowly — but surely — coming around to being a fan of a playoff system. I never thought that I would find myself jumping on board for a playoff, but at this point there really seems to be little if any way to argue with the soundness of the idea. I used to be one of the many who swore that bowl games were simply too much of a tradition — and too important to the game to simply do away with. This season, however, has changed that.

This season has been one amazing rollercoaster ride. Every week there was another Top 10 team losing to someone they really shouldn’t have. There was no clearly dominant team or group of teams. The BCS selections made that fact all too apparent.

On ESPN’s Bowl Selection Love-in, it started bordering on the absurd. It seems inconceivable that we now have 32 Bowl Games! Now I am all for giving every school it’s fair chance to play on New Year’s (or sometime within 3 weeks of the New Year) but this is getting a little ridiculous. Do we really need to see my beloved Southwestern Alaskan State University of Veterinary Medicine and Applied Mechanical Engineering (SASUVMAE) take on Branson Institute of Technology and Cetacean Husbandry (BITCH) on December 2nd in in the Charmin Turd Bowl in Newark, New Jersey? I’m sorry, but some of these games are guaranteed to suck, and have been created solely for the purpose of giving ESPN something to put on television, local chambers of commerce something to “oooh” and “ahhh” over, and advertisers another way to waste their money trying to convince us to buy more stuff. We could do without about half of these games.

Going to a bowl used to really mean something and that was what made them so great. Of course, I guess it still does mean something to some teams — since I live in the heart of ACC (a/k/a the Arrogantly Crappy Conference) country, going to a bowl means that you aren’t a fan of the Tarheads or the Wolf Crap (I can’t make fun of Dook’s team — I figure they have enough problems with their Lacrosse team throwing keggers with whacked-out strippers to have to worry about a bowl game).

My point is, if everyone gets to go to a bowl, then going to a bowl is really nothing special, so a playoff wouldn’t change that.

Furthermore, all of the confusion over who was going to play in the BCS games was ridiculous. You’ve got a camp saying that tOSU should go, another saying that LSU deserved a shot, then there were the Dawgs of Georgia, Kansas, Southern Cal, West Virginia, Missouri, and so on. Of course, Granny Clampett Holtz was convinced that Oklahoma should not only play in the Fiesta Bowl, but also BCS Championship game, the Sugar Bowl, and the Association of Americans with Lawn Dart Injuries Foundation Bowl. The problem is — maybe with the exception of Lou — everyone was right … they just couldn’t “prove” it. There has to be a better way to determine a champion than what we’ve got at present. I’m not going to pretend that I know what that is (but the guys over at Alligator Army have a few ideas, and a few more), but a playoff seems awfully inviting in a season where there is no clear frontrunner, and everyone wants a piece of the action.

Of course, I suppose we could just let Oklahoma play with themselves and determine it that way… I’m sure Lou would have liked that.

— Go Figure … lawvol

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