PLAYOFFS!

Unlike most sports fans I have never really been all that in favor of a playoff system for College Football (CF). Keep in mind I am not a really big CF fan, as my love is for NFL Football, and working in Corporate America it is very difficult to devote your Saturday and Sunday to watching football all day. So it’s not that I don’t like CF, I actually think it is really great I just don’t have the opportunity to follow both CF and the NFL every weekend. That being said my argument for not wanting a CF Playoff is very different than the norm. I actually probably agree with 80% of the arguments for a Playoff system and 20% of the arguments against one.

My reasons are simple in reference to what I said before, I am just not that interested in devoting a month of my time to following a CF Playoff. My love for CF essentially comes from growing up (and still today) being able to sit down on New Years Day and watch CF all day long. On a day I am able to watch it all day, it used to be great to sit down and watch some meaningful games and some great match-ups a-l-l d-a-y l-o-n-g.

Not only has the BCS failed as a good system (a discussion for another day), but it has really created a lot LESS interest in the sport for people like me. At the beginning of the season I picked LSU and USC as the best teams in the country , at the end of the year that argument still rings true and it did not take the BCS or a Playoff system to prove that. I am disinterested in spending the next 3 days after New Year’s watching Bowl games. I mean really most of us have to go back to work.

The 1 week period (or what seems like a week) between the BCS Championship and the last Bowl Game is also a hype killer. By the following Monday you have watched the NFL Playoffs and you pretty much satisfy your interest just to find out who won the game instead of watching it.

I will say that I became a little more interested in CF one Saturday when I relaxed at home and watched game after game after game. No exaggeration I think there was as many as 20 games on at one time with all of the channels available on my AT&T U-Verse. This is without paying for any of those extra packages. I sat down the next weekend on Sunday, I had an entire day to watch more football. The Cowboys were playing the Bears in the Sunday Night game, I had friends coming over to watch the game with me that night. I was going to spend an entire day watching football. I rushed home from church grabbed a bite to eat, got everything set up. ONLY 1 GAME showed all day…. Out of 4 programming slots they showed 1 GAME! I was taking a nap by 3:30….

I appreciate that you have to pay for the NFL Ticket to be able to see all of the games, but to only show 1 GAME on Network TV?? I realize there are agreements in place not to show games opposite the Home Team games, but in this case there was no game? Starting to feel I was getting a lot more bang for my buck watching CF.....