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Rose Bowl
ESPN Radio is reporting that LSU has accepted a bid to the Rose Bowl already. Interesting choice by the Rose Bowl Committee, if true.
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If true, I guess they don't see a scenario where USC loses to UCLA and Florida jumps the Weasels. Or they don't want a scUM-USC match up.
Stewart Mandel of SI actually gave a pretty good rationale for why it should be LSU over the Domers:
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It's no secret that the large majority of college football fans no longer embraces the bowl system. They want a playoff. The BCS and the bowls themselves have spent considerable time and resources over the years defending their system against hordes of critics. If the Rose Bowl, the oldest and most revered of the bowl games, deprives the public of a potential No. 3 vs. No. 4 matchup in favor of a regular-season rematch that I'm not even sure the participants themselves want to see played, the bowl system will lose whatever credibility it had left with the public. Bowl people will no longer be able to argue with a straight face that they're serving the greater good of college football.
No pressure, Rose Bowl.
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I think it's probably a stretch to say that a large majority of college football fans would prefer a playoff system.
I did a quick search and didn't find anything about it on BP, but I think that would make an interesting poll. I find it hard to believe that it hasn't been discussed though so I won't start anything myself so I don't risk getting smacked down by the "search for things first you dumbass" powers that be. 
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Originally Posted by Mandel
It's no secret that the large majority of college football fans no longer embraces the bowl system. They want a playoff.
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That is a blatant exagerration--while certainly the sports media would largely prefer a playoff, the only polls I've ever seen say about 54% of fans (near the bottom on the link below) would prefer a playoff. Hardly a "large" majority.
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Originally Posted by Buckeye86
I think it's probably a stretch to say that a large majority of college football fans would prefer a playoff system.
I did a quick search and didn't find anything about it on BP, but I think that would make an interesting poll. I find it hard to believe that it hasn't been discussed though so I won't start anything myself so I don't risk getting smacked down by the "search for things first you dumbass" powers that be. |
No poll, but lengthy dicussion here:
College Playoff
Here's your poll:
http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/s...131#post674131
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Thank GOD if this is true...I'm no dUMb fan as everyone knows, but it would be crap if they were relegated to kicking the crap out of a vastly overrated Notre Dame team...again, especially after they spanked them in South Bend. UM/LSU would be a really good game. Let Notre Dame go play Wake Forest or Boise State.
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