University of Georgia is calling for an eight-team playoff system
January 8, 2008
According to ESPN.com The president of the University of Georgia is calling for an eight-team playoff system for college football’s top division, saying the Bowl Championship Series — which left Georgia out of its championship game — has become a “beauty contest largely stage-managed by the networks.”
In a public statement and a letter to NCAA president Myles Brand, Georgia president Michael F. Adams, who is also chairman of the NCAA executive committee, called for an eight-team playoff to decide the national championship, with the opening rounds to be played in the four major BCS bowl games. He proposed the change be made as soon as the contracts that govern the BCS expire.
Adams was scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday afternoon to discuss the proposal. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported that Adams would support a playoff.”This year’s experience with the BCS forces me to the conclusion that the current system has lost public confidence and simply does not work,” Adams said in news release. “It is undercutting the sportsmanship and integrity of the game.”Â
 Will the University of Georgia take the lead in campaigning for a new college playoff system? Only time will tell.Â
This article is from ESPN.com and contains information provided by the associated press.
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Here! Here! I haven’t watched a bowl game in eight years. To the extent that is possible I don’t use products of companies that advertise for the BCS (cancelled my personal insurance this year). If you want to see College Football go the way of the Tour de France (can’t find a winner) and Major League Baseball (can’t find a clean needle or arm apparently) then keep allowing old white men (of which I am one) in the BCS to rule the appropriately designated “beauty contest”. The BCS names a real champion about as much as day-time soaps provide appropriate social commentary. I’m a Clemson fan but I’ve also become a Bulldogs fan today!
WOW! Probably the single best comment Fumbled.org has ever seen. I mean what do you say to that? You the man Charles.