I'm aware of the pluses about the major bowls and minor bowls that exist. First, more than half the schools can claim success and get national exposure. It makes kids feel good or some bullshit. It reinforces the ranking system everyone's so obsessed about. Also, it funnels tons of money into the NCAA come early winter. Fine. I get it.
But seriously, this is fucking college. People are trying to make it AAA NFL (just televise CFL games, Jesus). One thing they forgot: college is supposed to be about education, not catching balls. Unless you went to Vassar. Then there's a 75% chance you went to catch balls.
Point is, making college a money machine undermines a college education in general. So many people leave with a B.S. in ... BS. I've said it before and I'll say it now: undergrad degrees are the new high school degrees. The market's friggin' saturated with college grads. And how many of them do you think focused only on football to have no real future in sight once the draft day passes? Cover that, ESPN.
Anyway, I propose a 32-team tournament. That's 5 games for every team if it's organized to place (as in, every team gets a definite number in the top 32 by the end of the tourney, with no. 32 going 0-5). 6 weeks would do, so you could begin this in the middle of November (some good matches during Thanksgiving? Win-win). As for home-away, at the beginning of the year set the home turf for each matchup by virtue of lottery, so it's possible no. 32 seed would host the top seed in the first round. The top 32 teams after 6-7 games into the season is usually just the AP top 25 with some extras, so it's reasonable.
I could talk more, but it's all needless detail. Comment with your thoughts, let's break our previous high (4, woooo).
- Matt
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FAIL.
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