RealClearSports: Playoffs? Nah, Bowl Games Are Just Fine

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

PASADENA, Calif. — Playoffs? Not to sound like Jim Mora, so let’s paraphrase him. In college football, who needs playoffs?

We have bowl games. We have the BCS. We had an overload of overtime. An abundance of suspense. What else do we need?

You think LSU-Alabama will be any better than Oregon-Wisconsin...

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RealClearSports: Call It the 'Bowl Complaint Series'

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

And from the sort-of-great Northwest comes the word. “Everybody is just tired of the system.’’ That was Chris Petersen, Boise State coach, the system meaning the Bowl Championship Series, which should be called the Bowl Complaint Series.

Everybody? An exaggeration by Mr. Peterson, who if he doesn’t like the status quo could have accepted the position reportedly offered him by UCLA, which is having as much trouble finding a new football coach as it did scoring points against USC.

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