I am not trying to convince anyone, and you've probably heard this before, but I just read it for the first time, and was very impressed. This short article articulates a non-playoff position rationale that to me is beautiful-isimo!
Jason Davis
November 27, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Here’s why the playoffs are a bad idea– because college football isn’t about playing to win a national championship.
College football is about regionalism and rivalries, and that’s what makes the passions so great. It’s the one sport where beating your rivals has always meant more than national titles.
Just because ESPN tells you that the crowning of a ‘true’ national champion should be the goal of every sport doesn’t make it so. College football gets this. College football is more fun than the simple process of whittling everything down to one team.
That should be every sport’s goal–to give fans as much fun as possible, and that’s exactly what college football does. There are a lot of reasons that college football is our favorite sport, and the bowl structure is one of the biggest.
Who needs a definitive answer? Not me.
