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I was sure after posting that Heisman tidbit, Alabamacandance would pick Texas. UC must have voted for Texas so she wanted to stay away from his picks.

While the talk about the Big 10 rolls on, perhaps they are finally getting the message. In order to overcome the BCS system there must be unity. Unity includes declaring conference championships more simultaneously. For the Big Ten to end their season weeks before the rest of the teams, only talks to what they say their conference stands for....academics. It is because of academics that they schedule their games. However, all the other conferences include this factor. The PAC 10 lets the schools have more of a say in it so more teams are playing the week or week before the championship games of the other conferences.

But if you want a playoff system, you have to look like a playoff system, you have to talk a playoff system, and you have to walk a playoff system. If all the conferences had championship games (playoff) then deciding who should advance into higher round games would be easier. I think we all agree there. So the Big 10 wants a 12th team -- again the attempt. There are lots of reasons for a specific team (insert name here) to be included in the Big 10. What ever happens, and if it happens, the conference can split into 2 divisions and have a conference championship which will help.

Now the real kicker in this whole playoff idea, from a school stand point, is the thorn in the side -- Notre Dame. Their refusal to join any conference is all about money. A huge step forward would be taken toward a playoff system IF Notre Dame would join a fricking conference! But they get more money for being an independent and that is one reason we should all dislike Notre Dame. They are major factors in inhibiting a playoff system at this level of college football.

With Notre Dame's power (name branding, religion, political pull, etc.) they could sway television networks to rethink the model. Join a fricking conference! As Lou Holtz has said (paraphrasing), "let them play the game and decide the thing on the field of play!" (We now cut off Dr Lou from explaining why it won't happen.)

I have posted, some of you have posted, and others have chided in ...... the fans want a better system. Corporate sponsorship of bowl games is important, but why should they determine what the higher bowls do or can have? Frankly IMO, teams with 6-6 records are laughable. They don't deserve to be in a bowl game. Yet, they are being rewarded because they aren't losers. Yay! "We didn't have a losing season!" Leagues that include teams with even records in playoffs are just trying to generate money. And while money is the driving force, let it be separate from a true playoff system that involves winning teams that are championship worthy.

I'll leave you with this thought. Why is Grambling vs Southern not on a major televison network anymore? Got to run. I will be working the Pointsettia Bowl and the Capital One Bowl and am trying to get tickets to see Texas since it doesn't look like I will work the BCS Championship.