[DC 86]

http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/arti...828902.php

On the topic of an NCAA playoff, I originally favored it because there would be a definitive champion.  Now I don't like it because it makes all the bowl games seem irrelevant.  I would rather eliminate the playoff for football and let everyone argue about how the rankings should look based on unrelated bowl games.

I don't see the bowl games as any less relevant, meaning that they were always fairly irrelevant. In the pre-BCS days there were two (perhaps three) teams that had a chance to be voted national champions so the bowl games that they played in were de facto championship games, and the remaining bowls were irrelevant with respect to the national championship. This Sun Bowl game didn't feel materially less relevant to me than the same game twenty years ago, probably the opposite given how the sport has grown.

[DC 86]

http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/arti...828902.php

On the topic of an NCAA playoff, I originally favored it because there would be a definitive champion.  Now I don't like it because it makes all the bowl games seem irrelevant.  I would rather eliminate the playoff for football and let everyone argue about how the rankings should look based on unrelated bowl games.

I don't see the bowl games as any less relevant, meaning that they were always fairly irrelevant. In the pre-BCS days there were two (perhaps three) teams that had a chance to be voted national champions so the bowl games that they played in were de facto championship games, and the remaining bowls were irrelevant with respect to the national championship. This Sun Bowl game didn't feel materially less relevant to me than the same game twenty years ago, probably the opposite given how the sport has grown.