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Obama wants a NCAA football playoff Anonymous
President-elect Barack Obama now officially has a pet sporting issue. In an interview with “60 Minutes,” to be aired on Sunday, he expounded on why he thinks college football should have a playoff system.

“If you’ve got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there’s no clear decisive winner,” he told Steve Kroft. “We should be creating a playoff system.”

He even got into specifics: “Eight teams. That would be three rounds to determine a national champion. It would add three extra weeks to the season. You could trim back on the regular season. I don’t know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this. So, I’m going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it’s the right thing to do.”

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/
>> Anonymous
Barack Obama for Emperor '12
>> Anonymous
The BCS is an even more convoluted and poorly thought out system for determining a winner than the electoral college. It's that bad.
>> Anonymous
If he forces this to happen he will be the greatest president ever.
>> Anonymous
Will not happen. The BCS is a jackpot for the member conferences, while a playoff would be run by the NCAA and give them the money, not the schools.
>> Anonymous
>>469912

The money only goes straight back into their athletic departments anyways.

You really think BCS schools are using all that money to build more classrooms?
>> Anonymous
>>469922
Well, yeah, that's what I meant.
>> Anonymous
Eight teams make the playoffs, six BCS conference winners (ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, PAC 10), one non-BCS conference winner (MAC, Conference-USA, Sun Belt, Mid West, or WAC) determined by vote, and one "at large" team from any conference, also determined by vote.

Big 10 and PAC-10 winner meet in the Rose Bowl, regardless of seeding. Other teams are seeded, matched up, and spread among the Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Fiesta Bowls, with the Big 12 winner playing in the Cotton and the SEC winner going to the Orange.

Winners of those traditional bowl games are re-seeded and play each other in two new bowls that move around every year. Those winners play in the Championship Bowl, which also moves every year.

Ta da! It's still a little fucked up, but it's the best mix of new and old.
>> Anonymous
>>469923

I mean the NCAA wouldn't have anything better to do with that money but give it to the schools anyways.
>> Anonymous
>>469929
The 2008 Georgia team could crush every single team in the ACC. But it's only 3rd in the SEC. Your system sucks more than the one we have now.
>> Anonymous
>>469941
Not Georgia Tech. November 29th will be the day all Georgia fans cry their eyes out.
>> Anonymous
>>469941
Wrong. Yes, the ACC is god awful, but its champ would vs the #3 team from the SEC would be a solid game. Who the fuck has Georgia beat besides a bunch of mediocre SEC teams. And don't give me more biased SEC ass-talk.
>> Sneak !!+y8MDiWrdyT
The problem with the ACC this year is that as soon as a team gets ranked it loses.

#24 Wake Forest & # 16 UNC both lost today
>> Anonymous
The fact that Obama is entertaining this idea makes me think that the world might not end afterall under his presidency. I would vote for him in '12 if he put this through.
>> Anonymous
Fuck all this...Just copy the playoff format the FCS uses..it works and no one bitches. A clear champion is always provided, and it doesn't "add too many games that will detract from class time"
>> Anonymous
this would make him the greatest president of all-time no matter what else happens over the next 4 years
>> Anonymous
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Obama is already the greatest President of this century without serving a day.