The Mountain West, home of football darling Utah, has publicly proposed a playoff system to the rest of the BCS. It's borne out of a spirit of what the MWC calls unfairness in the current system. By unfairness, I;m assuming they mean Utah not playing in the BCS title game. They want to do away with BCS rankings altogether and replace it with a committee that would choose which 8 teams played in the tournament. It would also revamp the way the automatic qualifiers are chosen by comparing records against he current qualifiers. The only result of which it seems is simply to put the MWC in with the 6 big boys. If we're drawing from a pool for a playoff, why do we need auto-qualifiers anyway? Wouldn't your work speak for itself? This all sounds great and I'm sure everybody's very eager to listen to the mountain-zone Mormon step-children of football to make their pitch, Bill Henrikson style. What strikes me the most, though, is the lack of analysis as to what this would mean for a MWC team. like, let's say, I don;'t know....Utah in 2008. They were tough and competitive, pulled out the close wins and thumped Bama in the Sugar Bowl. Cheers to them. But it was a disappointed, unfocused and distracted Bama playing with a makeshift O-line and I don't know if the Utes could've beat TCU again if they had to. Which, under this system, they might have played TCU again. Or, more likely, Texas. Or maybe, USC or Florida. Do we really think Utah had what it takes to beat those three teams b-b-b? Doubtful. So, in the end, yo have to admire their moxie, but they're getting ahead of themselves. We all know (here comes the douchebaggery*) Utah (despite what they did to Bama) would be 8-4 tops playing an entire season in the SEC last season.
The Home-Supplies Plus Playoff System
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* interesting note: douchebaggery spellchecked in blogspot as, swear to god, 'torchbearer.' WTF?
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