Comments about ‘Utah Utes football: Flawless U. exposes flawed BCS bowl system’

the love of money .. oh how you make me sick!

Ain't it just great. Hopefully Obama will fix this mess too!!! Happy New Year... Utah IS number one as far as the citizens in this state. CONGRATULATIONS!

Amen Dick!

is a playoff.

ANYBODY with a brain knows that.

(There's the problem...the BCS rulers don't have brains....)

- 10 game regular season

- 16 team playoff system using either the poll's top 16 teams or play the conference champions and a few conference #2s as the 16 teams....starting with 16 teams gives the 2 teams playing the championship game a 14 game season

- single game elimination

- one week between games except for the championship when each team gets 2 weeks to prepare (football ain't like basketball; players need more time to recuperate.....plus the media would love the hype 2 weeks would give)

- ROTATE THE BOWL GAMES so EVERY bowl game sees a playoff (though some of the small ones might need to skip a year) and the major bowls get the big games

- thoughts?

The BCS isn't going away any time soon, in spite of what Utah did to Alabama.

However, if a playoff system is finally reached, it'll only be an 8-team affair, again small enough to keep out the riff-raff, like Utah et al.

If you don't think the BCS-minded pollsters won't keep a non-BCS school out of the top 8, you're dreamin'.

It was fun to watch Utah wallop Bama. Now, it'll be more fun to see how the talking heads try to diminish Utah's win, like saying Bama was missing key offensive players most or all of the game, even though their defense couldn't stop Utah from scoring 34 on them. Heh. It'll be fun, but they'll get away with it because these talking heads own the airwaves.

"Consider that Utah, after taking 12-1now 12-2Bama to the woodshed, has an A-list non-conference win to accompany its sensational in-conference conquest of TCU, which will close the 2008 rankings in the top 10. If one were to compare the 2008 Utes to the 1984 Brigham Young team that won the national title, the credentials of Kyle Whittingham's kids are far better than those offered by their instate rival from Provo." GUESS THAT BOUT SAYS IT ALL! WAY TO UTES!

The Ole Miss team that beat Florida, which also trounced Texas Tech, the same TTU team that beat Texas that allowed OU to play for the national title.

Tell me true - did you borrow a red U. sweatshirt for the game? Glad to have you on the U. side, even if it is only for one night.

Before anyone continues to panic over the fact that USC is in fact the dominate factor in college football, also remember that Pete Carol seems to be very disappointed with the BCS system. In fact, with a playoff system, USC would likely have two more BCS titles--if not three.

For all those BYU fans who have found devine intervention in some of BYU's great football game endings, why is BYU where it is now and Utah where it is now? Maybe the Lord is far more interested in starving, sick children in devastated Africa and literally not so interested in the tossing of a pig skin around a field on a Saturday afternoon.

burn down the BCS house. And Utah lit the match tonight with their win over Alabama.

This isn't just a sports argument, this is also a money argument, and when the BCS is running a virtual monopoly, they are violating the Sherman Anti-trust act. Utah's win over Alabama give those who want to take this argument to the courts the ammunition they need.

I say that a playoff should only involve the conference champions - and only take the top eight of the twelve champions. I don't know how to determine that - polls?

Playing the 1-8 ranked teams makes winning the conference championship less important. Make the season and the post-season actually rewarding like it used to.

This is apparent in basketball. It drives me nuts that a "mid-major" team can win 20+ games and their conference championship, but lose on a bid because they f'd up in a tourney. Yet a fourth-place ACC team can get an at-large bid and possibly win the Big Dance. Awesome regular season...

SO, keep the big bowls, but now they're the first round of the playoff. Rose can have the PAC and Big 10 champs. Fiesta can have Big 12 and MWC champs. Sugar can have SEC and Conference USA champs. Orange can have Big East and ACC champs. NO AT LARGE TEAMS. The bowls can rotate conference affiliations. A higher-ranked champ (or independent?) can replace them if that champ was better that year (aka WAC champ instead of PAC champ). Or even rank the champ according to conference rank, not just individual play.

You can still have the other bowls for non-champs.

Many questions on logistics, but at least you can declare a champ honestly.

Congrats to the Utes. I loved the whooping...

Years back, the excuse was that it would take the players out of school for too long if there was a playoff. Yet, school starts up again next week and there are still several games to be played, with the NC game one week away. Seems that it doesn't matter that much any more. Playoffs could be worked in the same time frame. New year's day could become meaningful again. If the power conferences were as good as they're touted, they wouldn't need to worry about keeping out a lesser team, since they would rout them out early in the playoffs. MWC has just as much right as the ACC for an auto-bid. Another threat of anti-trust investigations of the BCS is needed to truly bust it. It was that threat in the past that got it to open the way for Utah to even get in to begin with. As it is, teams like Bama can blame their lack of enthusiasm for opponents like Utah for their losses. A playoff would rectify that, since the winner would have the motivation to move on to the next bracket, where bowls' stagnant nature can actually dishearten a good team's motivation.

I'd like to see the NCAA show some backbone. It should organize a playoff. The playoff should be completely under NCAA authority and should ignore the bowl games completely.

Initially, this would result in a situation similar to college basketball where there were two post-season tournaments, the NIT and the NCAA, with the NIT, the non-NCAA tournament, being the big brother. This has evolved to today's reversed roles where the NCAA basketball tournament is the legitamate championship tournament and the NIT is a consolation tournament.

Eventually, the NCAA football playoff would surpass the Bowls in significance. This is the day that we are looking forward to!

Andre Smith was out, so that is why Utah was able to win. Blah blah blah. Part of the game is having a brain in your head larger than a pea. If you are too dumb to get caught breaking rules or laws, well then that is your own problem. Utah's players could have also been suspended for myriad reasons, but were smart enough to avoid this. So spare me this sorry excuse.

Please, give it a rest already. We went through this garbage two years and four years ago. Non-BCS teams just aren't as good as BCS teams. Utah was better that Bama tonight no doubt about it, but Bama is not Oklahoma, USC, Texas, or Florida.Neither was Boise or the 2004 utah team. This writer tries to dismiss strength of schedule as if that doesn't matter, but when you're toughest games are at home against decent Byu and Tcu teams then you can't really hold a candle to oklahoma or florida. Teams who have to play at Georgia, LSU, Texas, Tech, Miss., and Bama every week. They don't have a Wyoming, Unlv, sdsu, or eber state to take the week off against. Utah beat bama, congrats on a great season, but give them Oklahoma or Florida's schedule and they end up at best 8-5 just like any other bcs wannabe from the mwc, wac, cusa, or whatever.

Can anything good come out of Utah?
Absolutely!

Utah will never get the respect it deserves, I mean the Utes are not even the favorite team of the state. Why should any outside team give us respect! All we can do is beat-down every team that comes our way and let the program speak for itself. We didn't even have much of a running game and the Utes defense was crushing. That was 'bama, I'm not impressed and they gave #1 Florida a hard time. These teams from the East are crowned at the beginning of every year, well it's time to look at Utah a different way and I think after tonight maybe we will get the respect that's deserved. The two ex-Cowboy coaches that hosted the pre-game gave us no chance especially the one that won the Super Bowl by inheriting the other coach's team [J. Johnson] in case you didn't know? GO Utes see you next year!

"Can anything good come from Utah?
Absolutely!

I tip my hat to the U of U. Once again they have done their job and have done justice to the state, the MWC, and the West. I agree with BlueBoy that the BCS isn't going away any time soon. However, maybe the BCS will wake up and put the MWC as an automatic invite someway and somehow.