Sunday, December 7
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Oklahoma and Florida will be playing each other for the mythical national championship next month. According to ESPN, OU and Florida have never played a game against each other. And that is why college football his forever doomed to championship disputes. Even with a playoff, ranking and seeding teams would still factor in, and you just can't do it when teams don't play very many games and don't play each other. Apparently, OU and Florida can only find time in the schedules for each other every . . . oh, say, 100 years. They play conference games, and then are busy playing their in-state non-conference rivals, or their local crappy teams for easy wins.
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This of course follows naturally from the fact that in every other sport where there is a tournament arguments about seeding besmirch the eventual champion.
Sensible or not, the winner of the tournament will only be regarded poorly if the wins themselves are in question. A tournament settled on the field including all the reasonable contenders would satisfy the masses regardless of the structural absurdities of such a tournament.
if you count "clark" as a last name, there were 10 clarks that ran the full marathon and 18 clarks than ran the half.
if you count blockburger as a first name, there still aren't any.
I agree with Ben. The reasons that college football doesn't have a playoff have to do with money, television rights, legal issues, etc. It's not because the current system makes more sense or because a playoff would be just as bad.
There's so much money in football that no one wants to see their season end while other teams are still playing. The BCS lets them all play their full season and then at most the good teams get to play one extra game.
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