The Lions' Pride

Length of season as the number of games. They've already said they want to take NYD back, that off time will be used. Sorry it wasn't clear enough for you.

After playing both hockey and football most my life, football is more brutal on the body. And thats not a knock on hockey. Two games that close will never happen. Especially with concussion fears now

Also, the week off is just as much for game planning than physical rejuvenation. Im fine with every week rather than a month or two off, but not two games a week.

Tradition. New Year's Day Bowl games mean something, especially to the players involved.

And if those New Year's Day games were playoff games, they wouldn't still mean something? More, in fact, since you would be playing to move on?

There's also a lot of years where we have multiple 1 loss teams, and multiple 2 loss teams. This past season we had LSU undefeated, Five1 loss teams, and a raft of 2 loss teams. It's like how do you pick from them?

I feel like the BCS doesn't even really understand why people dislike the BCS, or maybe they do, and just don't care. My guess is the latter.

I think its pretty clear every year who the top 4 teams in college football are, for the most part. Granted it isnt always like that. Someone will always be left out, theres always going to be a cutoff and someone will bitch about it, look at the NCAA tourny. Cant include em all, thank God. The plus one system gives you the elite teams that year in college ball, and keeps the schedule reasonable without having to cut any home games, which cannot happen.

Appoo, I agree. There should only be 4 New Year's Day Bowl games: Rose, Fiesta, Cotton, Sugar...period. There are way too many bowls and they seem just like another game anymore...and they do because there are way too many bowl games and it's almost impossible not to play in one. Bowl games lost sentimental value a long time ago...other than the well know ones...not Joe Schmoe's Pizza bowl. I'd rather watch teams battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe or the Little Brown jug than these no-name bowl games.

I'm not even sure about knowing a top 4. Last year we had LSU & Alabama. After that you had a bunch of teams you could argue being deserving of that 4th team such as Okie State, Oregon, Boise State, Stanford, South Carolina and possibly even Wisconsin.

I think CBK works well because all conference champs get an invite, and the only teams you're cutting off are the ones who would be 9 - 12 seeds. Generally no one cares about them beyond a day. I'd like to see something similar to that in CFB. If you don't win your conference, and you don't finish in the next 5 after that in the BCS, you can't really complain about that.

I still believe this is simply about a couple of power conferences wanting to make sure smaller schools don't have easy access. They don't see upside in playing a dangerous MAC team in a playoff game.