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Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen said most football conferences are also concerned a four-team playoff would quickly grow larger.
``Any playoff is sports has grown exponentially and rapidly and we are opening a wedge to a full-blown playoff and we oppose that.''
Tom, you ignorant slut, how and why in the world could you oppose a college football playoff? The bowls are as antiquated as low-def TV, dial-up internet, and music albums. Take the Pac-10 into the 21st century or please step down for a commissioner with vision. The Rose Bowl and bowl system are anti-competitive, in a practical sense, and no longer acceptable to the majority of fans who pay your salary.
DFW, great SNL reference! I agree with you, except that the bowl games can be incorporated into a playoff system. The bowl games for non-playoff teams will continue. If the BCS bowls don't want to participate, they will become irrelevant. They will have to participate. Thus, if it's an 8-team playoff, the first round is played in the four major bowls, with neutral sites to follow for the final four. If its a 4-team playoff, then they will have to rotate two bowls for the first round and the final round. Or you go with the and-1, where they play the BCS bowls, and the top two ranked winning teams are then selected for a final championship, game.
Hanson is protective of the Rose Bowl, right or wrong. Aside from pseudo academic issues (which don't seam to affect DII and DIII students), the stumbling block is the Pac-10/Big 10 compact to play each Jan. 1. But that argument is long gone: Neb-Mia (02), WSU-Okl (03), Tex-Mich (05), USC-Tex (06...sigh). The last two years, USC has played the Big-10 runner-ups, which led to blowouts ("the no stress express"). Granted, two of those games were NC games. But the last "true" Rose Bowl matchup of Pac-10/Big-10 champs was USC-Mich (04). It's kind of hard to argue tradition after the Rose Bowl signed onto the BCS mess.