With this year’s editions of the BCS bowls nearly upon us, it’s time for me to release my annual proposed playoff bracket. As always, the goal is to preserve as much of the existing BCS and bowl system as possible, but scrap the idiocy of the actual BCS title game and money-grabbing at-large selection process [...]
So my plan for restructuring college football has been completely blown up by the most recent wave of conference reorganization, but that doesn’t stop me from dreaming of a playoff. On the eve of the so-called “National Championship” game, I thought I’d unveil how my bracket would look this year (here’s last year’s).
According to my grand vision for restructuring college football, today would be the second round of the playoffs. But what would they look like this year? It’s hard to say for sure since my conference realignment plan would affect regular-season scheduling, conference championships, and thus BCS (now P) rankings. But here’s how they might look, [...]
I used to be a huge college football fan, but over the last 10 years or so my allegiance has shifted to the National Football League. Reasons are myriad and I won’t go into them here. Suffice to say that I think college football is very, very broken. A recent ESPN.com piece on revamping the [...]
Last night at dinner, I ran into the mother and brother of Minnesota Vikings OT Ryan Cook, which was kinda cool. Our brief chat inspired me to actually lay down some of my complaints about the way the Vikings and Timberwolves have been managing personnel. The Vikings While I’ve never been a huge Vikings fan, [...]