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By Johnny Danger Dawg

January 8, 2008 1:46 AM | Link to this

Adams’ plan has no shot of being accepted any time soon. Nevertheless, I’m glad he’s initiating a conversation amongst the powers-that-be.

By HIGHPOWEREDOFFENSE

January 8, 2008 1:52 AM | Link to this

TAKES THE GUESS WORK OUT! AND MEANS MORE FOOTBALL COUNT ME IN!

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 2:43 AM | Link to this

Whether it is accepted within the next year or two or not, there has to be a first step to get to there. This will certainly put it on the front burner and we’ll find out who is where in their particular agendas. I have been a firm critic of Adams in the past, and I still am, but I applaud him for this move and hope it leads to a resolution to make the game and outcome of the season fair and clear of at least the majority of dispute that sickens most all fans of the game.

By Michael

January 8, 2008 2:46 AM | Link to this

Extend the season? There’s a 4 week black hole in the season in December. The problem is the BCS Bowls “must” be played after Jan 1. You have to tear down these bowls, give an off week for finals, and start playoffs around December 10th, then the 17th, 24th, then 31st with the championship on the 7th. Or something like that. And maybe, while dispensing with traditions, you can get rid of six days between games.

By Fred

January 8, 2008 2:49 AM | Link to this

Gee, It doesn’t matter what I say, the AJC will post whatever it wants and use my name.

By Slimdog

January 8, 2008 2:53 AM | Link to this

What a joke! The BCS does a make-up call by ranking UGA number two when in fact they should have played for the national title. This should be a lesson to the BCS. This was the most lop-sided, boring NCAA post season ever due to the many bowl mis-matches!

By simpleton

January 8, 2008 3:15 AM | Link to this

Why are they still wanting to rely on the unreliable poll system? What they should do is take champs of each D1 conferance and have a playoff.

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 3:29 AM | Link to this

The biggest obstacle to a playoff is that because the SEC plays such a higher level of football and has much more parity than any other conference it is possible that in an eight team playoff, there could be 4-6 SEC teams. Other conferences would have to finally admit this fact and make a rule to limit how many teams from the SEC could participate, which would also be unfair.

By Bob

January 8, 2008 5:29 AM | Link to this

Is it reall about tradition that the Pac-10 and Big-10 are against a playoff system? Our could it be that they are the most top heavy conferences and most likely to have a 0 or 1 loss team pretty much every year in the national championship game.

By john taxpyer

January 8, 2008 6:35 AM | Link to this

I am so glad that my tax monies are being spent on a university president that makes it his job to rah rah for football every chance he gets. If mr adams wants to be more involved in sports so much then he should step down and let someone, who takes the position more seriously, take over. This state MUST have people who are dedicated to education in places of power in this state, if it is to go anywhere.

By Damn the Man

January 8, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this

Who cares about semi-pro ball?

Adams is just sucking up to Bullpup fans so they donate more money.

The excuse that football players will miss out on academics is also a red herring. Half of college football players shouldn’t even be in college wasting taxpayer money. They would be working at Micky D’s if they had to be admitted to college under the same standards as real students.

Just let the bowls pick who they want to play. Let the fans argue themselves blue about who’s number one.It’s all about whiney alumni donating cash and the locals who support “their team” even thuogh they couldn’t get into a tech school.

By Damn the Man

January 8, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this

Who cares about semi-pro ball?

Adams is just sucking up to Bullpup fans so they donate more money.

The excuse that football players will miss out on academics is also a red herring. Half of college football players shouldn’t even be in college wasting taxpayer money. They would be working at Micky D’s if they had to be admitted to college under the same standards as real students.

Just let the bowls pick who they want to play. Let the fans argue themselves blue about who’s number one.It’s all about whiney alumni donating cash and the locals who support “their team” even though they couldn’t get into a tech school.

By Jeff

January 8, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this

This is just Adams grandstanding again. Out of touch as usual. Mike, nothing is going to repair your image and reputation. Do UGA and higher education, in general, a huge favor……retire. You’ve done enough harm.

By GA Grad

January 8, 2008 6:58 AM | Link to this

Is he just acting like he cares?

Just remember, you can’t spell SUGUR without UGU. Is that how it goes?

By Wilmington Island Dawg

January 8, 2008 7:04 AM | Link to this

As frustrating as this season and post season have been, I don’t see a playoff happening. This was truely the most exciting and fun season I can remember. The season needs to end the week of New Years so the playoff would have to start the week after Conference Championships (won’t happen). The seeding system will cause more controversy than the current selection process. Here’s my take on crowning a true champion: 1)Disqualify any team with a Div-I team on there schedule. 2)Disqualify any team that schedules an out of conference game against a team with a non-winning record (over the last 5 years to account for longterm scheduling). 3) Now win all your games. Do this and there will be no question. If there is no undefeated team, pour me a drink, light the fire and lets argue.

By fatz

January 8, 2008 7:10 AM | Link to this

as others have said, this current system penalizes teams for playing difficult non-conference schedules. fall all the criticism of USC losing to Stanford, they did travel to Lincoln, and they have traveled in the past to WVA and Auburn, etc. Did LSU or Ohio State play anybody meaningful away? GA playing Arizona State next year- that’s a start. either go to a playoff system of scrap the BCS and just let the polls decide the old way. the bowls this year were a joke, IMHO- the only people who enjoyed them were homers for the teams. there were a few exceptions, but not many….

By Rob

January 8, 2008 7:12 AM | Link to this

What happens to the polls with this scheme? If they go with decision by committee, then they have to get rid of the polls ro the controversy will go on. Unless of course they take the top 8 teams in the polls.. but which polls? And please don’t tell me they’d let the BCS poll remain in place to determine the top 8. While I can’t believe I’m about to compliment Adams, its not a bad idea, but I don’t see it having a shot.

Sidenote: The Rose bowl can’t be part of the equation. They need to pick one.. go with tradition or not be a part of the BCS. Period.

By Tom4AU

January 8, 2008 7:14 AM | Link to this

Coming from someone in UGA’s SEC neighborhood, I certainly understand all the frustration and hoopla that is going on with the Bulldog Nation at this time. They feel that they had a right to play for the championship, but were denied! Now Adams wants a playoff. It was just a couple of years ago that a 13-0 Auburn team had the same thing happen to them. We were arguably wronged MORE than UGA! My question would be, “where was all of the support from the most powerful conference in the land then?” As a whole, the SEC would be listened to about the chances to alter the current format. As a single team coming off this type of farce, we don’t stand a chance. The NCAA looks at us as a whiny 3 year old that didn’t get his way. Until we ban together and make a unified, concentrated effort as THE MOST POWERFUL conference in the land, we are just fooling ourselves. Hell, let’s start the petition right here and now!

By Dawg4 life

January 8, 2008 7:21 AM | Link to this

anything that starts with a “committee” is going to be just as much trouble as the BCS selection.

By Anti-Adams

January 8, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this

First off, this will never happen —not with the money involved.

Secondly —a committee to determine the top eight teams? Are you kidding me? This will NEVER fly.

IF such a plan were to be implemented you would simply take the conference champ from the BIG SIX conferences: ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big East, Big 12, Pac 10 —and two at-large teams based upon the current polling system (so yes the polls would still be vital). Also, NO stipulations for Notre Dame —if there one of the two highest ranked teams then fine —but no ‘Well, if ND finishes in the top 12 they’re in’ crap. let them join the big Ten.

By CU Tiger

January 8, 2008 7:52 AM | Link to this

I like the plus one system. It keeps the bowls in place and has 4 teams vying for the championship. If the Pac 10, Big 10 and Rose Bowl are so against it, then kick them out. Replace the Pac 10 with the Mountain West. Replace the Big 10 with Conf. USA. Replace the Rose bowl with the Peach bowl or Cotton bowl. I bet if that offer was placed on the table the Big 10, Pac 10 and Rose Bowls would change their minds.

By Charles

January 8, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

I hate the idea of a national championship in college football. Let’s keep the confusing polls where several teams can claim that “title.” It keeps the recruiting up in those schools.

By Phil

January 8, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

Dr Adams’ proposal makes a lot of sense. If you drop back to an 11 game regular season, use 4 existing bowls for the quarter finals, then you only add (net) 1 game for the 2 teams that play for the REAL national championship. The two teams which get knocked out in the semis play the same number of games they do now, and the other 115 teams in Div I actually play one fewer game than under the present format.

Those facts would SEEM to alleviate much of the resistance to the proposal. That doesn’t count the loyalty of the Big 10 and PAC 12 toward the Rose Bowl, but I am inclined to agree with another poster on that: tell them they can choose between maintaining the Rose Bowl’s traditional affiliations or participating in the NCAA championship process.

By J. Kellam

January 8, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

If every conference had a “conference championship” a “playoff” period would be easy and follow the pros with that mode.

By mayretta

January 8, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

An 8-team playoff would last about 2 years. Then there would be constant whining from the press and fans about who should/shouldn’t have gotten in, so they would expand to 16. That would last about 2 years until whining forced expansion to 32. Then 64. Then we could be like basketball and have a play-in game for the final spot. Then it would be even more like basketball, because all of the games played after about Nov. 15 would be meaningless.

By Dan

January 8, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

Please someone explain to me how UGA can be ranked #2 in the AP poll but not go to the Conference Championship game ? How can they be good enough to be ranked there at the end of the season but not good enough to be in the national title game? Doesnt make sense to me ?

By CE

January 8, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

A Division I-A football playoff should include each I-A conference champion.

By zeke

January 8, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

This is absolutely great! The man who would and tried to kill athletics at UGA now wants to change college football! What a load of crap!

Here is a senario:

Use computer rankings, strength of schedule and polls.

Using those come up with the top 32 teams.

One week after the conference championship games play 16 games.

One week after this play 8 games.

One week after this play 4 games.

One week after this play 2 games.

Two weeks after this play the championship game! First or second week of January!

By Pat

January 8, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

It may work but Adams’ real agenda is to gain favor with the younger UGA fan base. Only Mayor Ray Nagin got outbooed at the Sugar Bowl.

By RedDawg

January 8, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

Am I missing something here or what. Adam’s “plan” is nothing new, so why make him look like some great thinker. Give me a break. AJC come up with new news or state that Adams is going to propose an old solution. I cannot believe we are keeping him. All he does is make UGA look stupid

By cfmcleod

January 8, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Sounds great. The committee ??? could pick the winner of the WAC conference against the SEC conference, (this would leave GA. out this year); winner of the PAC 8 against whoever, and on and on. GA would have wound up in about 12th place Nationally this year with this scenario.

By cfmcleod

January 8, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Who would be the committee? Kirk Herstreit (or is it Herb Kirkstreit) and Corso. USC and Oklahoma would have played for the national championship this year and GA would have been left in about 14th place nationally.

By Dennis

January 8, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

I love college football, particularly UGA football, but I want the season to end on January 1.

These young men are, or should be, students. They should not be required to play 16 games, just so some school or conference can claim a championship.

Or is it really about claiming the money generated by a playoff?

By Dawg4 life

January 8, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

to all the nay-sayers of UGA’s rankings, may I remind you that it is not that you lost, but who you lost to and how those above you played out. LSU clearly won out. When all was said and done, UGA played better. Enough said. (except that I love reading the 12/31/07 articles claiming that UGA will have an uphill battle with Hawaii, and the 1/2/08 articles that claim Hawaii was not that big a powerhouse….which was it guys??)

By zeke

January 8, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

Hey Dan!

UGA was not in the conference championship game because they did not qualify for it based on their losses!! Next year, even though UGA will be a good team, so will Tenn., Fla., SC, and Ky. With this senario, UGA probably will not make it again!!! Get over it!!!

By PreyDawg

January 8, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

Anti-Adams you and your ilk are not helping!! Do the sensible fans a favor and shut up!!

I was as furious with Adams as anybody over the Dooley thing but that is water under the bridge. Since that time he has started to win me over. Richt, Felton, and Evans are three of the best “charachter” guys in the NCAA and Adams has to get at least some credit for letting them do their jobs.

Aside from that he has to be given credit for putting it on the line with his academia buddies to at least start a legitamate conversation about a playoff.

Instead of peeing in the cornflakes and saying it will never happen you ought to be cheering Adams on. It will darn sure never happen if it is not at least talked about.

As for committees…deal with it. That is the way the NCAA operates. If you read the article this is a step change up from anything we have ever had before. Historically the playoff idea has never been allowed to get that far.

Finally…all you Tech fans…please get back to playing in your virtual world where all the chicks dig you and you dont have zits and leave the UGA blogs alone. This is where real life happens where Georgia is dissapointed over being #2 in the nation and Tech is all giddy over their Navy coach and hoping for a real live bowl game someday.

By Goldielox

January 8, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Sorry Adams, people have been complaining about the BCS for months…even years. I don’t think just because the Univ of GA (of all the shcools that have complained) sent a letter to the NCAA that they’re gonna go ahead and change the system.

By Kevin

January 8, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

I agree with Dr. Adams (especially ESPN having too much power)…except I would do whatever to have the season culminate on New Years Day if possible.

Unfortunately, Dr. Adams is only reacting to how UGA’s season played out. If UGA lost a close game they won…say Alabama, this letter would not have been written. That is why his input will be taken with a grain of salt.

By Todd Green

January 8, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Regardless of the intent, it is time. Most of us never make changes until it affects us. So UGA’s president stance [if that’s the reason] is OK by me. Simply, UGA got burned, so proposing a change will help in most teams not getting burned. This will work just like NCAA D-1 basketball and all other NCAA playoffs. Money is the main reason for keeping the playoffs out. The Rose Bowl made their choice that kept bowl money in their conference.

Schools buy out contracts all the time. Collectively, the schools can buy out FOX and ABC. Make it happen.

By Dawghead

January 8, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

He’s still an a-hole who needs to approve a proper honor for Vince Dooley while the old coach is still with us.

By Steve

January 8, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Like him or not, Joe Paterno has been recommending a college playoff system since the 1970’s. Any team can have a good or bad day. Opinion polls shouldn’t decide the champion -the team’s play on the field should.

By Gordon

January 8, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

He’s on the right track, but I would make the following changes:

1) The poll should be a combination of a computer and human beings, with the more weight towards the computer the better. Humans have biases, computers don’t.

2) Use 4 teams instead of 8. A 12 game schedule, conference championship game, and then 3 BCS games would be 16 games and extend the season another week. That’s too many and too long, even for just 2 teams. I know 15 games is only one better, but if you’re ranked 7th in the nation you don’t deserve a shot to be national champion.

3) The 3 playoff games (2 semifinal and 1 final) should be rotated among 6 or so bowls. The 2 semifinal games should be played around December 20th, and the final by January 3rd. Adams plan would extend college football to the middle of January, which is ridiculous.

By Ma

January 8, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Remember great games like last year’s USC-UCLA? this year’s West Virginia-Pitt? both games would have meant nothing if playoffs were in place. It would be like the NFL where teams are holding players out and not trying to win on the last couple of weeks. College football is the best sport on earth. Don’t ruin it with a playoff!

By dan

January 8, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Yo Zeke dont you know sarcasm!!! How can one say we are raking you #2 at the end but not good enough for the championship game when logic says when Kansas lost UGA should have moved up to #2 to play in the championship game. No where in the rules does it say you have to win your conference championship to go to the national championship.

By 59bulldawg

January 8, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

**By john taxpyer

January 8, 2008 6:35 AM | Link to this

I am so glad that my tax monies are being spent on a university president that makes it his job to rah rah for football every chance he gets. If mr adams wants to be more involved in sports so much then he should step down and let someone, who takes the position more seriously, take over. This state MUST have people who are dedicated to education in places of power in this state, if it is to go anywhere.**

John Taxpayer, you evidently don’t know beans about Michael Adams. There is a vast reservoir of distrust and dislike for him among many supporters of Georgia football, a significant number of alumni, and even some faculty. He is definitely not a rah rah for football at the expense of academics type of university president. If anything he’s the polar opposite … but he is a shrewd businessman/administrator and whoever suggested that he may be trying to cozy up to supporters of Georgia football for fundraising purposes may be exactly right. But even though I don’t care for the guy I would support his plan for some type of playoff as it would be better than what we currently have in place. Pitting academics against athletics is always an easy charge for critics to make … but it’s wrong in this case.

By Regular Joe

January 8, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

College football needs some help:

Sponsored games to commercial (The Chick-fil-A Ford AT&T Elmers Glue Bowl)

Games too late and too long

Notre Dame has own TV contract

Bowl games based on attendance not merit

To many “home game” bowls

College Playoff:

Cut one regular season game out

Put top eight ranked teams in four New Years bowls (teams have to have played at least two ranked teams and one out of conference team on the road)

Winners play the next week in two bowls

Winners play the final week in one bowl (Game held in the region of the top seeded team - We do have domed stadiums now)

Note:

If the big ten and pac ten leadership doesn’t want to participate, no problem, I’m sure the fans and the players in these conferences will straighten them out real quick.

By CAMDAWG

January 8, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

IF THE MAJOR CONFERENCES MINUS THE BIG 10 AND PAC 10 DECIDE TO DO IT THEN THE OTHER 2 WILL JUMP ON BOARD TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE NOT LEFT OUT.

By Chris

January 8, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

What Adams is proposing is EXACTLY what I have been saying for the past 4 years. Just incorporate a a playoff into the existing BCS system. You still get to keep your stupid bowl games, as well as having a tournament to determine which team will be the national champion. Seems like a plan to me, but I guess this makes too much sense for the “geniuses” in the NCAA that seem to prefer the current “confusing and controversial” format. It is clear Ohio State did not belong in this game, and if there had been a playoff, its safe to say OSU wouldn’t have even made it to the championship game. College football needs a playoff, but sadly, it will probably never happen.

By RJ

January 8, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

If a playoff is implemented, go ahead and make it 16 teams (All 11 conference champions plus 5 at-large), play round one at the higher seed campus, break for finals and the holidays, then those winners move on to Adams’ proposed playoff. Losers in round one could still get an invitation to a smaller bowl game.

By MT

January 8, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

I’ve lost interest in college bowls. There is too much time between the end of the regular season and the big bowl games.

The BCS’ primary concern is making money and preserving “traditional” matchups like Rose inviting Illinois from Big Ten for example.

The college presidents who cite academics and the academic calendar as an excuse for not supporting a playoff system are a joke!! I see plenty of college basketball in December. If academics were really that important, more football players would actually graduate.

By psw

January 8, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

His plan should win him back some fans. Finally a College President who is making some sense out of this BCS mess. In a playoff LSU may still have won but personally I think UGA would have whipped them and gone on to play USC for the championship.

By Gene

January 8, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Adams overestimates his own influence. His concern is financial with no consideration at all for academics as indicated by Georgia’s miserable graduation rate which is the lowest in the conference. It is just more whining from a school that leads the nation in whiners.

By rick

January 8, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

An 8 team playoff will not be approved unless all 6 of the BCS conferences are assured that their champion will get in regardless of overall record or rank. Why would any conference commissioner approve it otherwise? So we still will not have be certain to have the best 8 teams. It needs to be a 16 team playoff with the 6 conference champions and 10 at-large teams. Of course, then the WAC, MWC and C-USA would start whining. It won’t be easy!

By Basil

January 8, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

RJ’s plan is close to my plan.

The 11 conference champs seeded 1-11. 5 “wild card” teams from the polls (the top 5 teams that did not win their conference) seeded 12-16.

If they start the week after the conference championship games, they could end New Year’s with a true national championship.

By Drew

January 8, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Boo Hoo … Same Song - Different Verse. The President of Oklahoma came out with all sorts of clap-trap a few years ago when he thought his school had been screwed out of the National Tile race. Now its Georgia and Adams. The bottom line is this - take care of business and go undefeated (like USC did in 2004 & Texas did in 2005) and there will be no whining, crying or second-guessing. If your not good enough to do that you have to live with the consequences.

By Larry Flowers

January 8, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

ADAMS IS A LOW-GRADE MORON WHO HAS NO INTEREST IN UGA FOOTBALL OTHER THAN THE FACT IT IS A MONEY-MAKER. HE PUSHED THE ONLY TRUE FOOTBALL SOUL OUT OF UGA AND NEEDS TO SIMPLY SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. THE VERY SIGHT OF HIM SICKENS ME.

By reality check

January 8, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

This would work and be a huge money maker to boot.

So the college presidents want football to be a one semester sport? Have they heard of winter mat drills, spring practice and voluntary summer workouts?

Talk about living in la la land! One more example that academic prowess is overated.

By Mike

January 8, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

It is a great idea from the standpoint of determining a true champion. However, from the standpoint of a fan who would love to be able to attend the games, it is not “fan friendly.” How many fans could afford to attend a BCS bowl game in say New Orleans one week, a game in say Miami the next week, and then say a national title game in say Texas the next? I know from a financial standpoint I couldn’t plus being able to get the time off of work. Only the wealthiest of fans would be able to attend all the games.

By david

January 8, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Sounds a lot like sour grapes on the part of Adams. Why didn’t he come up with this before? Interesting timing on his part.

By Nolan School

January 8, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

If you ever needed proof the University of Georgia is a football program first and place of higher learning as an afterthought…here it is.

If Athens needs a pro football team, send them the Falcons.

By DirtyDawg

January 8, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Adams’ proposal doesn’t stand a chance, nor should it. If the powers-that-be think a ‘one-plus’ playoff (which would mean, at most, four teams selected following the bowl games to have a semi-final then final game) would diminish the stature of those bowls, then this eight-team playoffs would effectively end it…and that never should be the case. The bowls have, and still do, mean a lot to Division One college football. There’s plenty of money going to the schools and conferences…there’s plenty of money and publicity for the communities…but most of all,there’s fifteen or so teams - players, coaches, fans and recruits - that get to go home happy with a final game victory. Now what could be better than that? Seems to me no matter what system you pick there will be complaints - four-team elimination, number five and six and seven complain about not making it…eight-team, number’s nine, ten and eleven…you get the picture.

As for Adams, count me among those that’ll never like the jerk, or contribute like I used to. My guess is that the only reason he decided to come out with this is that Vince has been an open proponent of the ‘one-plus’ playoff, which naturally meant that Adams had to propose something else.

By Dick in Dacula

January 8, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

PreyDawg you are way off base with your comments. Show some respect huh? No need to bash fellow posters. A playoff system will get off the ground work because there is too much money involved.

Do you really think that these bow-tie wearing presidents that control things really give a crap about what Michael Adams thinks? Sir they do not.

By 59bulldawg

January 8, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Drew, your brilliance is amazing! With your logic what do you do when there are several teams with the same number of wins and/or losses? What do you do then smart guy? I seem to remember that aside from Hawaii, there were no undefeated teams in the 2007 regular season. Your solution works only if there is an undefeated team. Do you really think Hawaii was the best team in the land this past season?

By Susan

January 8, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Mike Adams is doing, once again, what he is best at doing: promoting Mike Adams. UGA should have gotten rid of him a few years back when they had the chance.

By Mike

January 8, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

The season would not have to be extended much if they did something with the 30-40 day void between the end of regular season and the Bowls. If the Bowls want to be played on New Year’s Day, play the semi-finals before Chritstmas, setting up the Bowls as the finals and the final championship the next week as a plus-one.

By Tony

January 8, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

I think that the bowl series games have been a big joke for years. in most case when i am trying to watch a game I will fall asleep because some of these teams have been over matched. For example Ohio State was ranked #1 this year and I believe last year and the teams from the south Florida and LSU completely dominated them. The commentators tried to make it interesting but couldn’t. Give us some real football and have a playoff system.

By LN

January 8, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Adams says he is “troubled about the commercial influence over how the college football season is played out.” UGA makes more money on football than any other school in the country….The problem starts at home

By College Fan

January 8, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Forget a “NC” and have the NCAA declare moot and meaningless any “NC” that is declared by the AP, USA Today or anyone else. In fact the NCAA could simply disenfranchise any organization from NCAA games that declared a “NC”.

Have teams play the season for the fun of it and to win their conferences or just have a really great season. Let a bowl be a reward like it used to.

This reminds me too much of parents taking the fun out of baseball by organizing Little League for their own benefit and kids not caring to play anymore.

By 59bulldawg

January 8, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

So let me be sure I understand. All of you folks criticising Adams as a whiner think the current BCS system is workable or you’re just ticked because it’s the UGA president pushing a playoff plan. Which is it? Geeeesh I’m not an Adams fan but I’d even support Hillary Clinton if she came up with a playoff plan. Well maybe not … but almost! It’s needed whether or not the Dawgs ever win another game … ever … and it’s needed as soon as possible. This is not a University of Georgia issue … it’s a college football issue. Too many of you folks are driven solely by your hatred and/or jealousy of Georgia football!

By Football Fanatic

January 8, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

The best part of the 2008 college football season will be August 30th.

There will be 73,000+ in the Georgia Dome for the Alabama - Clemson game. There will be less than 30,000 at Grant Field for the Georgia Tech - Jacksonville State game. Ironic, isn’t it?

Alabama and Clemson are kicking off the season with an unofficial bowl game. It’s the Embarrass Tech Bowl.

By Drew

January 8, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

59bulldawg, Read my post more carefully. As I said, if you don’t go undefeated, you have to live with the consequences. That’s what every team is having to do this year. As a result, there is whining & crying (see this morning’s AJC), and alot of second guessing. If you want to control your own destiny, and end the season as the undesputed National Champion, then it can and has been done (see USC & Texas as recent examples). If you loose a game(s) you should have won, then you have to deal with the consequences. Sometimes it still works out (see LSU) and other times it doesn’t and you look for excuses.

By Get over it

January 8, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

I dread this year with all the Georgia people crying in their beer. I didn’t even watch the BCS championship last night because I didn’t care. I think the bowls should go back to being played by teams selected by the bowl committee. Teams would be selected by 1) The fan base they brought 2) how good the teams were 3) How much money was spent by the fan base. The national champion selection is a farce and always has been. The media selection committee and the coaches who vote are all biased toward the teams they follow. The teams who peak late always have a better shot unless they are out of the area the voter lives in. The Heisman trophy is the same way. Peyton Manning should have won it his senior year but the media in the northwest and west voted for a player they had seen. I just follow my team and enjoy the season, win or lose.

By scribe

January 8, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

**the three biggest jokes in college football are:Jim Delany- Big 10 commissioner Tom Hansen- Pac 10 commissioner Mike Tranghese- Big East commissioner

If you want to know why, read the following column

http://sportsillust rated.cnn.com/2008/w riters/the_bonus/01/ 02/bcs.future/index. html **

By realplayoff

January 8, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Remove ALL SUBJECTIVITY by each Div I-A champion in a PURE single elimination. All BCS bowls would be assigned to the bracket with progressive payouts with each bracket win.

By Golf-1

January 8, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

To Dan Because the dogs, not dawgs lost to South Carolina. Ha-ha Win your conference and then b*** if your DOG’S dont get in. As bad as Ga Tech was they could have beat the Rainbows.

By donshay

January 8, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

The BCS Championship game has rendered all o fthe other major bowls meaningless.

Either have a playoff or do away with the championship game.

In the “Old Days” and team could be No. 5 going into Jan.1 and be No.1 on Jan.2 if the games fall your way. Miami did it to win their first National Championship.

That was exciting, that has been lost now.

By jspiker

January 8, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Adams system won’t fly. Too much money and too much power at stake. In fact, part of the power at stake is the SEC’s. Adams knows there’s no chance so he can pretend to be up in arms over the current system. The major conferences are not going to open up a playoff system that might somehow let a Boise State slip into the title game (I’m not saying they would have). Also, starting the playoff January 1. That’s just dumb. Start it the week after the playoffs, the season ends with the title game January 1. Academics isn’t an issue because most of that time period is holiday break and the teams would practice that month anyway getting ready for bowl games. But top teams aren’t going to agree to a system where they might be eliminated in the first round and lose the three extra weeks of practice time. I like an 8-team playoff with automatic bids to the BCS conferences and the last couple spots going to minor conferences or independents (that’s gives them the chance to prove they do or don’t belong). No second place teams. Period. You had your chance, move on. The conferences then do actually become part of the elimination process.Arguments over who should get that eighth spot? Who cares? Are you really getting shafted if your only the eighth best team in the country and not getting a shot at the title? A playoff will come eventually. But I think it’s a long way off.

By ray

January 8, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Michael Adams is a joke. He should be fired.

By ET

January 8, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

The manipulations by the Division I-AA committee to guarantee (1) every conference is represented, (2)every section of the country is equally represented to the fullest extent possible, and (3) entries from the same conference meet prior to the championship game are major flaws of the Division I-AA playoff system. The Southern Conference and the Colonial Conference are by far the best Division I-AA conferences. The committee members from the other conferences do their best to minimize the chances of more than two teams from the Southern or the Colonial getting invitations. We saw the impact of that kind of rule on the BCS this year with Hawaii getting the nod over Missouri for instance. Division I-AA has 16 participants in the playoffs. It would be even worse with only 8 participants in the Division I-A playoffs. If the chair of the selection/seeding committee is from the Big Ten or Big 12 or Pac 10 or Big East, watch out SEC and ACC, and vice versa of course.

By fulldawg

January 8, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

While a playoff system would be the best way to solve this National Championship mess we need to ponder several fronts in the meantime. First, these players are STUDENTS not professional players making megabucks as many of their NFL counterparts.

Second, the greed factor of Adams and his henchmen who have IMHO turned UGA sports into a conglomerate leaning more and more to the well-healed. This does not necessarily mean you graduated from UGA but how much $$ you can give.

By Villa Rica DAWG

January 8, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

Michael Adams is a douche bag. He has made tailgating at UGA an expensive chore not worth performing unless it is a night game. Even then, I sucks hiking across campus with coolers and tents on your shoulders while tired, drunk , and dehydrated.

Screw Adams!

That said, one of the things that makes CFB so great is that every game counts. I support a playoff scenario when we have an undefeated Auburn getting snubbed for the NC game or three two loss teams getting snubbed while another gets the nod. However, the last I checked, those things don’t typically happen to more than 3 or 4 teams. I support a Plus-One format, not a eight team format. Allowing eight teams to play for the NC allows too much room for people to screw up in the beginning and still make it. I like the fact that EVERY GAME COUNTS.

Screw Adams!

By Dewaine

January 8, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

I think that we need a playoff system or else we will be subjected, again, to blowout bowls like we recently had so no one would be confused about who the number one team in the country is. UGA should have played USC but there would have been an issue about who the number one team is when all the games had been played. A playoff system would show the nation who the real national champion is and would be a major boost in revenue to the powers that be. And if they wanted a hundred percent agreement, they should eliminate all the commercials. I may be a fan but I have to work the next day.

By MontrealDawg

January 8, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

To john taxpayer, Lighten up Francis! This “proposal” doesn’t look like it took up much of Dr. Adam’s time. He probably wrote it up on a napkin or the back of an envelope. Believe me, he spends plenty of time on academics and “forward thinking”, much of it not limited just to UGA. Just ask anyone connected with MCG.

By Mayretta

January 8, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Amen, Villa Rica. As I stated earlier, great games like last year’s USC-UCLA and this year’s West Virginia-Pitt would be meaningless with a playoff. The current system makes for the most exciting sport there is. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

By Timw

January 8, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

I am an old man raised in Southern Cal (Pac 10 country), primium years raising children in Chicago/Milwaukee (Big 10 country), spent the last 20 years in Georgia (SEC/ACC country). I love and endorse Adams plan and wish it were so this last year. I hate the BCS which I generally depect as BS, whoops BCS. I said when the BCS was formed that nothing but a playoff system will ever work. The years have proven the point! His plan will work. The money, as well as, other details will take care of itself once the decision is made to do it. I sure hope it happens while I am still able to see it.

By SCBird

January 8, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Just take the conference champs from each D1 Conference, and then have them in the playoff. You shouldn’t play for a national championship, if you can’t win your conference title. That’s no knock on UGA, that was always my opinion.

By jabster

January 8, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Big Ten and Pac-10 don’t want a playoff because they want to keep winning NCs in the newsrooms of America, and not on the gridiron.

Most of the ACC/Big XII could run over most of the Big Eleven/Pac-10. All of the SEC could (well, except maybe Ole Miss).

By Phildo

January 8, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Adams is meglomanic and usually full of @#$%^, but even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while, and his effort and proposal are commendable, but there’s still a better way.

To wit: 8 top final BCS poll teams to play it off starting the 2nd week-end in December. Quarter-finals at host school, who’s fans deserve this. (Screw the bowls) Losing 4 teams still eligible for regular bowls. Semi-finals on New Years at 2 bowl sites submitting highest bids to NCAA. Final one week after New Years at bowl site submitting highest separate bid to NCAA All other bowls still played for also-rans. This puts more money in the schools, NCAA, and bowl pockets, allows for fan support/recognition via the quarter finals,and it eliminates the never ending drama with the current phoney baloney BCS system.

This would be a win-win-win-win situation for everybody.

By Being Real

January 8, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

First off conferences like the Big Ten and PAC Ten need to have TRUE conference champions. They don’t even have a championship game. Start there. That’ll get rid of the likes of Ohio State that only play teams barely a step up from what Hawaii plays. When they start playing teams that are consistently ranked like ALL the SEC teams too, then let’s talk. At any given time during the year, the majority of SEC teams were ranked. Can the other conferences boast that? I think not.

But either way, something has to be fixed.

By jc_dawg

January 8, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Until you rid the powers that be with there current college football concept…you will never get a playoff system.

The current college football concept is that the college football champion is a subjective champion. It is the team that has the best overall season and is determined subjectively. Its not at all about which team is playing best at the end of the year.

Its hard to argue against the fact that LSU had a better overall season than Ga. They won the SEC conference and lost 2 games in overtime. Ga lost 2 games as well but one loss was a 21 pt blow out.

However…it is at the end of the season when you can see the clearest. Football is a game of survival. The end of the season is when you should measure how strong a team really is.

Ga is the better team right now…and I’m sure many would agree.

Like it or not…The LSU tigers…along with any college football national champion…are the subjective champions who had the best overall season.

By Allen

January 8, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Like the basic idea - realistic or not, with the following changes:

(1)cut the number of remaining bowl games in half (or more) (2) start the playoff earlier to end around new year’s day (3) reduce the regular season by 1 game (4)rotate the BCS games such that each has championship game every 4 years

By bridgeguy

January 8, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

How long till 8 teams in the playoff needs to become more. Basketball was 32, then 64 and is now 65 because there was always just one more team that deserved to be in. Who picks the 8? Coaches? Look at this years final Coaches poll. WV does not even make it in the top 8 but 3 Big XII schools are. If you pick the conference champions of the “big 6” what mid-majors get the chance? Does that not always leave open the question of who deserves to be there and not? What about who is seeded 1 or 5 or 7. Come back in March when the basketball tournament is set if you need a refresher on how “fair” that system is and how much people complain about that. “They have a hard bracket, They have an easy bracket.” Nothings perfect to get a champion. I say get rid of the BCS and a tournament and bring back the way it was. Split championships are fine. Think about it this way, if they chance for a split championship is there that just means you have a better chance to win.

Think about this. The best games this bowl season were the non-BCS games (minus GMAC and Cotton) because they got to pick who they wanted. BCS awful because of FOX (another rant for another time) and because they were forced into who they would take for the most part.
NO BCS NO TOURNAMENT

By george

January 8, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

I think NCAA Football should copy the NCAA Basketball playoff system. Why not?

By WW

January 8, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Great plan, except can the average fan afford to travel three weeks in a row? The higher seeded teams should get home-field advantage for the first round. Then let three bowls hash out the semi and final games. IT WILL WORK.

By Company Man

January 8, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

We should let the cheerleaders pick the college bowl teams. The cheerleaders know more than the coaches. That’s 4 sure, THAT’S 4 dang sure.

By Perry

January 8, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Will not happen. To much cost to the fans.

By hamboham

January 8, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

I feel that is a good start. It wouldn’t be very long. Plus you have your bowl games. A random game in between them and the Nat. CH, but usually that time they are deciding on who should play the big dance. Only the best eight should make it in a seed, and the winner of it all. Will be the Nat. Champion. I feel it makes complete since. We need a tournament for college football

By Q

January 8, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

You notice that no UGA fan has said that one of the requirements to get into the “playoffs” is to win your conference. ROFLMBO!!!!!!

GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!

Was UGA outraged when OU got in the NC game but did not win their conference? How about when Auburn was shut-out?

LSU was in similar position as UGA last year when they went to the Sugar Bowl…did you hear them whining like little patsies?!!?!?!?!

UGA…..go to work, CFB is over! And that includes you Mr. Adams!!!!

By Charley Trippi

January 8, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

8 is too many teams. Should the No. 8 team in the country really get a shot at the national title? The long regular season is played to weed out the also rans. Let the top 4 square off, it’ll hardly add any length to the season. Somebody won’t be happy (teams 5-8), but no system will please everyone. Greed will eventually expand the field to 16, then 32, and it’ll be all watered down like the Bolshevik basketball March Madness debacle.

By jj

January 8, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Doesn’t Adam realize they lost in the playoffs when Tenn blew them off the field.

By Dr Morpheus

January 8, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

“Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.” Mark Twain

By Douglas

January 8, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Since 1994, I’ve had an idea for a playoff scenario that does NOT change the way college football has been played or has been scheduled since the inception of a basic 11-game season for each major college football conference. My idea holds this concept valid, yet allows that each of the games played MEANS something more. I’ve also borrowed the playoff portion of this idea/concept from another sport that one woult not think involves college football, but works, if done the right way. The result: a winner, produced on the FIELD, not thru some computer enhanced numbers system that says Team A must play Team B in the championship game. Can’t the NCAA and the bowls THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX for a change? The bowls do not change, they remain, but we get OUR champion the right way. If your interested in the idea, Email me. Thank you.

By D-rock

January 8, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Sounds like the whiny athletic association and alumni are using Adams like their puppet.

By Douglas

January 8, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

Thought Link to this would indicate my Email. Anyways, contact: TilleryDouglas@yahoo.com for how this works. Thanks. DT

By Micah Colter

January 8, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

Wow! Another year and another SEC president dipping his nose into the BCS when he feels his team isn’t being treated fairly. At least Berney Machen at UF shut up after his team was awarded the chance to play Ohio State last year.

Mr. Adams should consider the following:

1) Win your conference and you’ll have a shot at the title. You had a shot to win the SEC East and fell on your face! No title, no chance. 2) Claiming to be the best at the end of the year doesn’t mean you can forget/forgive bad losses early in the year. You lost to Tennessee which won your division and to SoCarolina/Spurrier AGAIN! Adams sounds like the Tennessee fans in the 1990’s who used to claim they were the best team in November after Florida had crushed them in September. 3) Is UGA really that good? Down the stretch, they beat an average UF team (which lost to Michigan…MICHIGAN!); an average, four-loss Auburn team; national title contender (joke) Troy; and the always impotent Georgia Tech Yellow Backets who were waiting fire their coach. With its weak non-conference schedule, Georgia didn’t deserve a shot more than Missouri which beat Illinois, Mississippi on the road and only lost to Oklahoma. I won’t get into that overwhelming Hawaii squad.

UGA should look to make things right in 2008. Win the SEC and look good in the non-conference schedule and you will be able to justify a shot at the national title. Doing it after this season, just amounts to a lot of crying from a team that was only third-best in its own conference.

By Nothing new here

January 8, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

This is NOT a novel idea. It’s been discussed in this format as well as many others for years. So I HOPE HE DOESN’T TAKE CREDIT FOR CREATING IT, as the stupid as$ AJC is giving him credit for.

By Pete

January 8, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

A playoff system is a no brainer here. If the system is changing every year, the system doesn’t work!

There should be more than the 8 teams that Adams suggests however. Maybe 16? Unlike the basketball tournament, 64 is truly too many for a football post-season playoff. The NFL has 12 teams out of 32 in a four round post seasonal play (Wild Cards, Divisionals, Conferences, Super Bowl). The question is how the top 16 teams get selected.

There would always be controversy every year on those who didn’t get selected or were “snubbed”. That’s why it needs to be black & white. Conference and any Head-to-head as well as other stats and scenarios can be used to work out the tie breaker situations but shouldn’t change like the wind (as in the current system).

The top bowl games would be for the semi final round with the championship in predetermined locations just like the Super Bowl.

Anyone who thinks that 8 teams are too much really does take into account that there are viable contenders like WV who was #11 leading into the bowl games and put a spanking down upon #3 Oklahoma.

Let’s face it… The biggest reason why they can’t work this out is due to egos, contracts and money. So until they all get on the same page, we will continue to have posts and blogs on how this should be handled.

BTW, I am a Big Ten fan (IU), not a Big East, ACC, or SEC supporter.

By dawgcall

January 8, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Good idea. This is the only way that you will feel like there is a real national champion. This is what the fans want.

By NYC Dawg

January 8, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

The Champions Tournament

Not sure if anyone has seen the below site before, but I think it’s a much more viable and achievable approach to a College Football Playoff. It also seems to address President Adams concerns about having a football season that is too long. Take a look when you have a chance.

[http://www.championstournament.org/index.html]

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

To assume that a playoff would cause teams to “ease up” or rest players the last few games is an incorrect assumption. Teams will need every win they can get to make the playoffs. To think UGA would coast through the Ga Tech game because we probably have made the playoffs anyway is just stupid logic.

Only conference champions in the playoffs is stupid also. It is entirely possible if not probable that the SEC would have two 10-1 teams after the SECCG, and one of those should be disqualified from the playoff for a team from another conference that is 7-3 ??? I think Adams is well aware that what he has suggested will not be easily or quickly implemented, he said as much. But if “some” kind of action at least gets us to a plus one it is a step in the right direction and can be tweaked to what works best from year to year, just like they have done with the bcs.

I fail to see where Adams’ plan would automatically cause schools to lose money, there will not be any less bowl games. If fans will go out to see Fla. State and Climpson in a bowl (neither had a chance at a NC) why will a playoff cause fans to not support them in the same way as this year?

Please go back and actually read Adams’ plan before making posts about how it is flawed because it would require one less regular season game… his plan calls for that.

So, some of you want the season to be like T-Ball… don’t keep score just play for “fun”??? There has been more idiocy in this blog than a Terrence Moore piece.

By Sane

January 8, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

A four team playoff would be the easiest to implement. Two of the bowls could host 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 after the season. The winners of those games would play for the title in a third bowl. The bowls could rotate each year just like they do now.

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

Micah-

I do not like Adams any more than you, but did you actually read what he said? He plainly says that there will be folks like you hollering sour grapes, but he doesn’t claim that UGA deserved to be in the NC, he even says that losing to Tenn and SC was plenty to keep us out of it.

By NYC Dawg

January 8, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Hey Sane - that’s the plan of the The Champions Tournament. Read the link:[http://www.championstournament.org/index.html]

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By college man

January 8, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

How about a plan for raising academic requirments for enrollment and getting rid of the so called football degrees.Just what is this teaching our kids?

By DawgCrazy

January 8, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

If there was a 4 team playoff this year, the Dawgs would blow out USC, LSU or Ohio State. They are definitely the best team in America and got totally hosed by the BCS system, that is biased against teams from the SEC. Dawgs rule baby!!! Next year, UGA goes 14-0 and wins it all—no votes necessary. With Moreno and Stafford, UGA will beat UF and LSU into a pulp and dominate the SEC. The dawgs will be unstoppable.

By PauldingDawg

January 8, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

The NCAA needs to start listening to its fan base. I know of very few college football fans who don’t want some form of a playoff system.

One thing that I would like preserved, though, is the “meaningfullness” of regular season games. I like the fact that EVERY SEC game has “life or death” importance, and I want to keep that. Also, I actually DO enjoy some of the “meaningless” bowls, simply for the fun of seeing interesting matchups that you won’t see during the regular season.

The way to do this, IMO, is to have a 4 team playoff for the National Title. The goal is to find out who the best team in the country is, and this would do it. This would only add one game to the current season, and it maintains the intensity of regular season games. Going into that 4 team playoff, people may argue over number 4 and number 5 and who gets in. But, at the end of it, no one could argue that the winner of that playoff was not the best team in the country.

If you have an OSU that played a weaker regular season, then that lack of strength of schedule would be wiped out after having to beat 2 top 4 teams to win the playoff.

8 teams is too much. If you didn’t play well enough during the regular season to finish top 4, I don’t think you deserve a shot at the title. A 4 team, plus 1 scenario would settle all debates about who the best team is. In addition, the regular season games keep their importance, and the lesser bowls can still make money by creating interesting matchups.

By Jim

January 8, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

I’ve been a dawg fan for fifty years and I’m not whining about not being in the national championship game. It’s our own fault we lost to South Carolina. As I recall we won the East division a year or so ago only because South Carolina beat Florida. So what comes around goes around. As far as seeding the top eight teams. How many fans would show up in New Orleans if Oregon and Arizona happened to get paired up in the Sugar Bowl. Ain’t gonna happen. The bowls are not in the play off business.

By Henry McKee

January 8, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

How does this fit into the term “student-athlete”? We are now in the 2nd term of the school year and the “student-athletes” will just be returning to class - already behind in their work. I hear all of this talk about graduation rates and now the talk is to extend the season even further. More hypocrisy.

By NYC Dawg

January 8, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Agree UGA would have done well in a four team playoff for the National Title this year. But it should be made law (currently it’s not) that a team HAS to win their conference to play for the National Title. In fact, all conferences should REQUIRE a conference championship game. Would be even better if we could force Independents to join a conference. But unfortunately Notre Dame would be too big of a hurdle. So, an independent can get in the 4 team playoff, if and only if they rank in the top 4 ahead of conference champs. Read The Champions Tournament. It’s legit.

By DWG

January 8, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

I say let the big ten and pac ten play their little exhibition game in the rose bowl while the real teams settle it in a playoff. The rose bowl can be like the army/navy game or notre dame football - a tradition that is fun to watch but meaningless.

By tjs

January 8, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

Finally something of value has come from UGA, but with the ACC & SEC guaranteed 15-18 teams every bowl season, does one think anything is going to change? Very doubtful, this BCS season has been worst than most, and where does the Big 10 get off with furnishing a team that has not played in 51 days. They must have contempt for everybody else, the only answer is a organized play off. The UGA presidents idea is as good as any, but remember the Florida president said this last year, and his peers greeted his proposal with derision.Money talks and the playoffs will walk. tjs

By Adam

January 8, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Since there are 11 conferences, why not take each conference champ with 5 “at-large” spots and have a 4 week playoff?? That way, the so-called little guys have a shot as well, and there is plenty of room for other SEC teams.

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

If you limit each conference to only one representative you can bet that it will split the SEC. A four team playoff will cause such a rule because every year would have two of the spots taken by the SEC, just like this year. You can’t penalize a 10-1 team to let in a 7-4 team just because the conference is loaded with the best teams. It either needs to be plus-1 or at least eight teams with a rule that no conference can have more than 1 team per division. It is possible that both the east and west divisions could have undefeated teams playing monster strength of schedules in the SECCG. It would be totally unfair to penalize a 10-1 team from the playoff simply because they lost their conference championship. OSU and Mich. will feel the same way about it. If the pac-10 ends up with no one better than 7-4 with their schedules, why should they get to be in the playoff over a 10-1 team with a tougher schedule? That would be worse than it is now.

By DWG

January 8, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

I have to disagree with you NYC Dawg. Here’s a scenario: UT plays UF at the beginning of the year. UT beats UF at home by a field goal. UT and UF run the table finishing the regular season 1 and 2 in the polls. UT plays in the SECC against a 3 loss LSU and loses. Now you have a #1 ranked UF team left out of a playoff. As much as I’d like for them to be left out, we would end the season with another split champion.

By Ex bulldog

January 8, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Michael Adams is a politician and self promoter. He has replaced key administrators with spineless whimps that behave exactly as he tells them. He takes credit for the accomplishments of others, and he shifts the blame for his own shortcomings. He has done great damage to the University. Anything that he promotes is not what it seems. As long as Adams has the support of Sonny the Stooge, he isn’t going anywhere. Adams is a twit!

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Let’s say Auburn wins the west at 10-0… Tennessee wins the east at 7-3, then beats Auburn in the SECCG. Tennessee goes to the 4 team playoff while the only 10-1 team in the nation is eliminated? Sorry… lead balloon crossing.

By GhettoIce

January 8, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

Even High Schools Sports know to have a playoff to determine the Champs…….DUH. I thought college and universities were suppose to foster a higher level of thinking. LOL

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

Thats right DWG… in fact a conference champion only rule effectively makes it more than a 4 team playoff, because the conference championship has now become the first round of the playoff… it won’t fly.

By Stupid is as stupid does!

January 8, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

Ten regular season games, eight or ten bowl games. Made sense then. But now it takes megabucks for major sports. Gotta pay for jocks to flunk out, Title 9 sports, fancier and fancier facilities, entertainment. Hmmmm…let’s add not one but two regular season games…the jocks are leaving early anyway and a few more injuries won’t matter.

Oh and the ravenous fans and sportswriters need something to occupy their time. Let’s add to 32, 32 bowl games. That’ll bring in bucks, give alums something to do, make entertainment money for 32 towns, and let sportswriters think they have a little more importance to their lives. Oh yeah, a few more injuries won’t matter. Time at practice and not hitting the books! So what?

The current system creates mismatches in the bowls because of conference tie-ins. Nobody thinks to match even teams. And the major bowls are awful for their mises. Let’s continue this program.

In April who will REALLY care about this drivel??? College football has gone from a way to pay for an education to a stepping stone for a professional career. Meanwhile the athletes take bodily risks that they may not be able to continue, and mental risks that prevent them from competing in the classroom.

Will we ever consider the student aspect of student-athlete?? All those who know in their hearts they won’t go to the professional level wish they had more time to devote to classroom activities…but they are trapped. Good for us???

By Mountain Dawg Fan

January 8, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

All of the questions and arguring will continue until you forget about the polls, divide every school who wants to compete for a NC into 8 conferences and have the 8 champions compete for the NC. Do you think this system wouldn’t make tons of money?

By GO TIGERS!!!

January 8, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

WHAT A BUNCH OF SORE LOSERS!!! WAHWAHWAH.

WE’RE GONNA GET YOU AND YOUR LITTLE DOGGIE TOO! WE’RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD….

GO TIGERS!

By BuzzFactor

January 8, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

The Playoff (year 1)- The 5 conferences with Championship games have a bye to round 2. No independants are eligible. The remaining 6 conferences play an elmination round. Bringing us to 8. Then the 8 are seeded by BCS standings and put into an 8 team bracket. It’s simple, the major coferences that planned for the future (ACC, Big 12, Conference USA, Mid America, and SEC) are rewarded with a guaranteed spot in the final 8, and the others will still have there shot through the elimination round including Big East, Big Ten, Mountain West, PAC 10, Sun Belt and WAC. Those who don’t like the first year set-up, another option is to condense the conferences down to 8 Mega Conferences with 14 - 16 members each. But you lose so much history. Or put the 6 BCS teams in with the top 2 nonBCS teams.

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

An 8 team playoff after losing one of the regular season games adds 1 game for 4 teams and 2 games for 2 teams. Stupid is was the smartest thing in your post.

By BuzzFactor

January 8, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

bottom line, you have to win your conference to compete!

By Typical UGA crying

January 8, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it ironic that since his team was left out of the Title game that Adams is all of a sudden supporting a playoff system. Especially after opposing it so strongly in the past. He should have been supporting it all along, not just when his team was left out.

By Hunk Erdown

January 8, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

I give up, if the powers that be are a cross section of the posters on this blog its no wonder nothing logical can be done.

By BuzzFactor

January 8, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

with 8 mega-conferences, you would not need the cross-over games to be counted. So, your rivavly games would be just that. The only thing that counts would be you divisional record. That would get you into the Conference Title Game, you win that and you’re in the National ChampionShip Series.

By David

January 8, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

The dawgs will still complain. Like this year they couldn’t beat a non bowl team (S. Carolina) and a mediocre TN team and were yelling cause they were not in the BCS Natl Championship game. At least LSU lost two double OT games to bowl teams. I can see it now…The 1st year we go to the new format and the dawgs finish 9th in the polls and they are whining again!

By S

January 8, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Nice timing Dr. Adams. What a jackass…can’t wait for Crying Dawgs to come to Baton Rouge next. What a bunch of babies.

By DWG

January 8, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

I’d like to see a playoff start with the six BCS conferences playing a championship game. Take 4 at large teams to play against each other and in the end you have 8 teams to start a playoff. It wouldn’t be fair for an at-large team to sit at home while the others put it on the line to win their conference titles. I’d have the 8 teams play against each other the first week of Dec. at the higher ranked teams home field (so no thinking a games not important to rest your players!) On Jan. 1 have 2 BCS bowls with the 4 remaining teams play games with nat. championship implications. The other 2 BCS bowls have their exhibition games. A week later, one of the BCS bowls that had an “exhibition” game the week before, hosts the Nat. Championship game. This would rotate so each year one BCS bowl loses out but that’s still better than 3 bowls losing out. So for the record, that’s 3 BCS bowls involved in games with national championship implications. A break between the first week of Dec. and Jan. 1. All the other bowls can go on as scheduled. In an 11 game schedule 2 teams play 1 more game 1 week later.

By NYC Dawg

January 8, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

Just because you win your conference does not mean you will be one of the 4 teams to play in the playoff. The Champions Tournament is still based on rankings. A 7-4 conference championship team is not going to be ranked high enough to qualify in this system. Take this year for instance based on rankings before the bowl games were announced and after all conference champions were anointed:

The four highest ranked conference winners (or independent teams) would of advanced to The Champions Tournament. This year would have featured Ohio State vs Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl and Viginia Tech vs LSU in the Orange Bowl. The top four ranked teams not included in the Champions Tournament would face each other in the other two BCS bowl games (Sugar & Rose). Then in January 2008, the winner of the Ohio State/ Oklahoma and Viginia Tech/LSU games would face each other in the season’s last game for the national title (this year that game would have been in the Sugar Bowl).

Is the Conference Championship like a playoff? Sure. But that’s why we have it. To annoint the best team from each conference. The team that losses that game could still get a big bowl game like the Sugar, but as they lost their conference, they will not play in the four team tournament. They should have won their Championship game. Will upsets happen? Sure, but that’s part of the game.

An 8-game playoff will never fly without depleating a lot of meaningfull and profitable bowls currently out there. And you have to have some ground rules and restrictions to the teams allowed in the playoff besides just the rankings. Conference Championship games allow for that. Why even have a Conference Championship if it doesn’t have an effect on who plays for the National Title?

By kittyb

January 8, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

This is nothing more than Mikey Boy trying to figure out a way to avoid being booed by the Bulldog Nation when he is out in public.

Pretty obvious that he is sucking up to Georgia fans via this playoff attempt.

Give it up, Mikey.

By Mike

January 8, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

OK, I am a bulldog fan (and alumnus), and I have said we needed a playoff many, many times (even BEFORE this year). However, Adams writing this letter today completely slights what LSU did last night. OK, I’ll say it, we didn’t get shafted. After previous non-conference winners get killed in championship games, I think the conference championship SHOULD help determine #1 and #2.

Adams should have shown some class and waited a few days. No wonder we bulldogs get the rep for being poor losers. We had a great year, and very unexpectedly at that! Let’s just give our team the support it deserves (win or lose), and hopefully next year will be even better.

Congrats again to the Tigers, and looking forward to the matchup next year!

By JDM

January 8, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Here is my 3 point plan:

By Stupid is as stupid does!

January 8, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

hunk erdown

I’m not so much addressing the extra post-season games as the money chase and the hundreds of players each year who end their eligibility with less of a future than they could have had if they had the time (and used it) while preparing for games that fattened the wallets of everybody except those on the field of play.

Twelve regular season games and 32 bowl games??? Come on!

By Bob

January 8, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

UGA squeaks by early season pasties, is embarassed by the only true early tests (South Carolina and Tennessee), wins 5 or 6 games in a row, watches as parity creates losses of most teams ranked ahead of them, and then howls when they are not selected for the championship game.

Then on the evening of the national championship, their top academic leader makes national news with a proposal, that has already been turned down by 11 SEC schools, to draw attention to UGA’s self-appointed “mistreatment”.

Congratulations dawgs- you’ve outdone yourselves this time. What class!

By Frontman

January 8, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Just more sour grapes whining from UGA. Mike Slive was quoted as saying that he knew Dr. Adams was not happy with the bowl selection process. If UGA had wound up playing USC in the Rose Bowl, Dr. Adams wouldn’t have any proposal to make today. This cheesy grandstanding, designed in part to remove the focus from the LSU national champions, should be seen for the sophomoric attention-getting ploy which it is. But… I think that’s what we expect from UGA.

By John

January 8, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

I am a graduate of Ohio State and have seen my team get into the championship game two years in a row now, when we were clearly not deserving. It wasn’t obvious in 2006 that we shouldn’t have been there until the championship game. I believed all along that we should not have been in the championship this year, and I was proven right in front of a national audience last night. I have put together a simple eight team playoff system that will preserve the integrity of the current bowl system while giving a true playoff system. I hope you will take time to look at it.

1) Go back to an 11 game regular season. 2) Require all six conferences to play a conference championship the 12th week of the season. No more co-champions! 3) The six conference winners will get an automatic bid into the playoffs. 4) Preserve the current BCS calculations to be used in the following steps. 5) The two highest BCS ranked schools who did not win their conference get the two remaining spots.
6) Notre Dame does not automatically get a bid. 7) Seed the teams based on their BCS rankings. For example, the team with the highest BCS ranking will get the #1 seed. 8) On the 14th week, what used to be the week that the conference championships were played, the #1 seed plays the #8 seed, #2 plays #7, #3 plays #6, and #4 plays #5. 9) On the 15th week the winner or #1 vs #8 plays the winner of #4 vs #5 and the winner of #2 vs #7 plays the winner of #3 vs #6. 10) The two remaining teams go on to play in the national championship game. 11) The Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, and Orange bowls go on to pick their teams just as they normally would.

This system would only extend the regular season by one game, but allow for a playoff system, and also keep the traditional bowl system in place.

By T-Money

January 8, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Here’s a simple idea that might make this work: Require each of the major conferences to play a championship game. The winner of that game gets an automatic bid. That’s 6 teams in, and then you use a committee to determine the final 2 teams.

If you are going to use the 4 BCS bowls as the first round of a playoff system then you shouldn’t seed that round. Could make for interesting match ups. In the next round you seed the remaining 4 seeds and we can see which team is left standing.

By tired of dogs whining

January 8, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

Hey, whining dogs…all of you rooting for a playoff system, or saying you”deserved to play for the championship” this year, be careful what you wish for..you may get it. First, you didn’t “deserve” to play for the sec championship, so therefore, you couldn’t “deserve” to play in the bcs title game. Oh, you also don’t deserve a #2 ranking, but who cares who is ranked #2…could just have easily been Kansas, MO., USC…nobody remembers after 3 or 4 days. If you watched LSU dismantle Ohio State, and know anything about football, you know they would probably beat ga. by about 3 td’s head-to-head. Even though LSU loses a few players, they will have more than enough left to handle ga. next year. Did you notice the difference in LSU linemen on both sides of the ball compared to dogs? LSU players are as big or bigger than dogs, and faster. Dog line men are jug butts (if you played you know what I mean) with fat bellies hanging over their belts.

By Diogenes

January 8, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

No.

By War Eagle

January 8, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

I agree with Mike on President Adams, he should stick to Fund raising. NCAA PRESIDENTS WILL NEVER ALLOW a playoff system. The bowls are a huge source of revenue, plus the environment is good for the schools. I really believe the only reason he mentions”playoff” their is writing on the wall about the future of UGA football. Does he want to get left out BCS title game with a 12-0 season? Personally I would like to see a small scale playoff, 1 vs 4, 2 vs 3, but how would these teams be selected? Many questions. Did he fire Coach Dooley?

By Mike T.

January 8, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

I was as furious with Adams as anybody over the Dooley thing but that is water under the bridge

Right On!I was upset about the Dooley issue also,but folks common on were talking about a man who did not see eye to eye with another man. He did not kill six thousand Jews or fly planes into the WTC or bomb Pearl Harbor.At least he’s trying to get something worked out in the best sport in the world that’s to stupid to get what every other organized sport in the world has, a playoff system to determine a true champion on a yearly basis, based on,on the field competition.

By gdawgone

January 8, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

Should create no problems. Didn’t they just play last night exactly one week after New Years? Don’t have to cut back on the schedule, like some are saying. 4 and 1 should at least be considered as a step in the right direction. If all the conferences except the Pac10 and Big 10 are on board exclude them. After all, they excluded the rest of the country for 50 years.

By Andy

January 8, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

I have a good idea. Maybe Georgia should just do what Notre Dame does and not play in a conference. That way we don’t have to win our conference in order to play in a Title Game.

By BuzzFactor

January 8, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

The problem everyone is overlooking is the Non BCS conferences. There are 11 conferences, 6 BCS, 5 non-BCS. 3 BCS Conferences have a CHampionship Game game along with 2 of the non-BCS, and these are the guys that saw the future coming, the first being the SEC. Step one is to force “every conference” into a Conference Championship Game. Big 10, Pac 10, Big East and the little guys need to expand, combine or what ever to make that happen. When the dust settles we could have anywhere from 8 to 10 Conferences. We can go from there, but this is the first step that has to happen.

By Andy

January 8, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

For you people who say that you should win your conference in order to play in the National Title Game, i guess that eliminates Notre Dame every year right ?

By the guy Who Brought Us Jim Harrick

January 8, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

Michael Adams is a egomaniac and an unmitigated bully. A selfish, classless act to bring this up today. Makes UGA look far worse in the eyes of the nation - like a bunch of cry babies.

Remember when Auburn went undefeated and was overlooked in the BCS championship? How about 1 loss USC last year or 2 loss USC this year.

No wonder Adams is a fat b******* - he’s too full of himself.

By Q

January 8, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

andy, ND are their conference champions!

Stop whining….dag. get over it, and tell your president that he and m. richt show just how much class UGA has. A bunch of classless back-woods bumpkins….he did not have to take the spotlight from his very own conference school.

By merritt

January 8, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Mike Adams, this should be LSU’s day. They won the SEC earlier and now the National Championship, let them enjoy before you go spouting off about how things did not work out for UGA. If UGA had beaten Tenn or S Carolina, they would have gotten the chance to play LSU and if they had won the SEC, they would have been playing for the NC. It always seems that the highest rated team to miss out on the NC game is always going pitch for a playoff. Where was Mike Adams and his playoff proposal after the 2006 season?
Another thing, if the teams for this playoff system are selected by humans, UGA will still have the opportunity to be snubbed for that system. The only way to determine a fair playoff system, is to have all the division 1 schools, their schedules and results input into a computer and let the computer pick the teams for a playoff. There is not an unflawed system, but coaches and writers will snub certain teams and more than likely, so will any selection group. Not knocking UGA as a team, but their leadership, with Adams, leaves a lot to be desired.

By DWG

January 8, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

For the record - OSU and USC didn’t win a division or championship game either. I like talking about a playoff but I agree Adams timing is bad and comes off as sour grapes. Congrats to LSU on another OSU beat down.

By Mark

January 8, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

Whether the proposal has merit or not, it is ill timed…it comes across as UGA whinning about not getting into the bowl. A university President should have waited at least a respectable mourning period.

By GADevildawg

January 8, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

like the playoff but having the playoffs set up under Adams plan is not a good idea. The end should be with the bowls….if we get rid of the 12th game we start the playoffs the first and second week of Dec….otherwise, it will kill the major bowls and will suck for the fans. Scenario….Georgia gets in the Sugar Bowl but they play Hawaii in New Orleans….would you pay $$$ for a SB ticket? or would you wait to save your $$$ to go the NC game in another part of the country? see what I am getting at? It makes no sense…why go to AZ for the Fiesta Bowl when you want to save your money for the next round of the playoffs? Oklahoma? VTech? The big bowls would die….

By ben

January 8, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

and this is from the guy who ran off Vince?

By JS

January 8, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

All we need is 2 more games. After the season and all bowls, a final poll will come. #1 vs. #4 & #2 vs. #3. Then you use the BCS Championship game to allow the two winners to play. That way, the top 4 teams can all have a chance. This way only 2 extra games are needed and the bowls can go back to having their own choice of teams like pre BCS. One extra poll & Two extra games. It’s as simple as that.

By Fulton

January 8, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Nothing but empty grandstanding! It’s sad that Adams would take this day (after LSU’S National Championship) to make this lame, whiny statement. All the respect built by Richt and HIS program almost gets discredited by this cheap move. Even a REAL bulldog fan must realize this….

By Andy

January 8, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

GADevildog, the big bowls will never die. The way the system is now, why would you pay money to go to the Sugar Bowl if it’s not even a big game. Whether Georgia won the Sugar Bowl or not this year, its not like they had a chance to win the National Title. In your scenario, the Sugar Bowl would be an even BIGGER bowl, because it would actually be MEANINGFUL. The winner of the game would actually have a chance to win the national title, which can’t happen in the current system.

By Huh?

January 8, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Fulton….what respect does Richt have? He’s a dirty coach who teaches his players to play dirty ball. ‘respect’ is not the first, second, third, or fiftieth word that comes to mind for him. He can coach that group of thugs pretty well while looking like Helen Hunt, but he does not deserve respect for anything off the field, and very little for on the field.

By jim

January 8, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

If he gets the 8 team plan it will take control/power away from the BCS conferences and give it to the NCAA.

Also do you think the NCAA would allow 2 teams from the SEC before an undefeated Hawaii? If you do look at how the basketball tourney is done.

The one plus senerio will be used next. But the 8 team senerio will not be in the best interest of the conferences that have the most interest (SEC, Big 10, Big 12, etc,…). At least not now.

By BT

January 8, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

Either idea be it Adams or even devildawg looks good. But I say no AND I MEAN NO, to the plus one patsy. Whatever we do we cannot compromise to the plus one. It will be an even larger debacle than what we saw with the BCS. We haven’t yet witnessed the dirty politics that “p** one” would bring. If you are #9 looking in then you really can’t complain but if we had a plus one today you would have either Bulldogs or Trojans taking to the streets for being shunned.

By Drew

January 8, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

STUPID IDEA - To all of your football fanatics, these are students firt, foremost and always. Don’t try to fulfill your ‘fantasy’ with adding a playoff schedule for them. They have classs and a schedule in order to GRADUATE. I swear, America get’s dumber by the day…

By Andy

January 8, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

A plus one wouldnt be any good, because teams like Georgia and USC, arguably the 2 best teams this year, would be left out.

By Andy

January 8, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

hey drew, college basketball has their playoffs in March when school is in session, so why can’t college football have their playoffs in January ?

By Tville Dawg

January 8, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

I can’t get past Adams’ treatment of Dooley in order to determine if he is some expert in the athletic department.

I agree with Commissioner Slive in that the timing of all this was poor. This was LSU’s day despite the fact that the DAWGS were probably better.

I am overjoyed that the DAWGS finished number 2 or 3 after losing to SC and getting killed by Tenn. Also, did everyone hear the LSU faithful chant SEC-guys, they were carrying our banner.

I don’t care if we ever have playoffs. Let the present system continue to be tweaked and enjoy the ride.

By Freeze

January 8, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

To get rid of the bowl system we have to not buy the tickets and boycott the games. Hopefully that would hit them in the wallet and after a few years we would see a real playoff system formed. And I don’t want to see any plus 1 crap either.

Pick top 8 teams after the conference championships are played. The next week play your quarter final games. Then play your semis on Jan. 1st and finals the next week after. There done deal it’s not that hard!!!

By David

January 8, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

I find it amusing that Mike Adams is proposing a playoff system. My how things have changed…..2004 Auburn goes undefeated, beating Georgia convincingly along the way, get left out of the BCS Championship game, and Adams is quoted as saying that he opposes an NCAA playoff system. My My My….Georgia, at least win your own division and you might have an argument. Believe me, you did not want to play LSU or USC this year.

By Johnson is a Johnson

January 8, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

The timing of this was planned to have the most impact. Was it in good taste or courteous to LSU? No way. But in terms of getting maximum press exposure, it was a home run.

By David

January 8, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

Unless you want a playoff system without the Big 10 and the PAC 10, forget it until the year 1013. Thats how long the contract runs in the Rose Bowl with the PAC 10 & Big 10. Mike Adams, where were you after the 2004 season, after Auburn embarrassed you, and got left out of the championship game. Hiding as usual.

By Jody D

January 8, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Adams just wants to give his redneck fans another opp to go to New Orleans and bark and fart in unison in nice restaurants, pull chandeliers out of hotel ceilings, and puke in the streets . Just what we all need.

By Fulton

January 8, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Sorry Huh? But it was the one opportunity I’ve ever had to give UGA props… My bad !!

By Mike T.

January 8, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

They have classs and a schedule in order to GRADUATE. I swear, America get’s dumber by the day…

How do all the other sports manage to have playoffs and still go to class,have a schedule and graduate? Nobody is advocating students stop going to classes.or canceling commencement exercises just to have football playoffs.

By Mike T.

January 8, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this

Believe me, you did not want to play LSU or USC this year.

Georgia could have easily defeated LSU OR USC this year.We beat teams handily that LSU struggled with.

By Andy

January 8, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this

I just laugh at people who say there’s no way UGA could have beaten USC this year. I mean, didnt they both have the same record ? And USC lost to Stanford ? I don’t see why people automatically think USC was better than UGA.

By George

January 8, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

Adams is just trying to gain the favor of UGA folks he ticked off by firing Dooley. This is all about Adams, believe me. Georgia’s one weak link is at the top. Until that is resolved, look for more of the same…always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

By Alan

January 8, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this

Adams idea is nothing new. Incorporating the major bowls into a playoff format has been talked about in great detail for some time now. The real issue is money (shocker). Having college football fans travel to one of the major bowls for a quarter final game, then again for the semi finals and finally the championship game will eliminate a large percentage of the fan base. The major bowls know this, and the risk of losing fans who will wait until their team makes the semis or finals is too big a gamble for the major bowls to risk.

By Uga Grad '95

January 8, 2008 7:50 PM | Link to this

Adams is an embarassment to Uga. While many of us have been calling for a playoff for years, he was absolutely against it. Now that Uga got shut of a chance to play for the NC, he is for one - especially in a year when we would have been a part of the “Adams Eight.”

Where was he when undefeated SEC powerhouse Auburn was shut out of the NC game? He was sitting on his hypocrical as$s adimantly saying NO to a playoff. What a sory piece of sh1t.

By Dr Morpheus

January 8, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this

To the Bulldog Nation only. It’s a mistake to focus on disliking Michael Adams for his past transgressions or personality when he is the first university president to stand up strongly and initiate action on the issue most of us support passionately- the need for a playoff system to replace the failed BCS system now in place. Like him or not, under Adams UGA has risen to a position of prestige among public universities and has enjoyed great success in athletics. Not that anyone on this board is going to affect the outcome of the “ugly fight” but if you love UGA and NCAA football, put aside your hatred and get with the program.

By BigDawg17

January 8, 2008 8:58 PM | Link to this

Just a couple quick facts.

USC played 13 games of which 5 of those teams had winning records. Eight did not. USC’s overall opponent records were a combined 77 wins and 82 loses. Voted number 2 they don’t belong in the top five.

OSU played 13 games of which 7 teams had winning records and overall opponent records were 86 wins 76 loses.

UGA played 13 games of which 9 teams had winning records and they had combined records of 92 wins 72 loses.

LSU played 14 games of which 9 teams had winning records and combined were 104 wins and 74 loses.

You do the math.

By onedawg

January 8, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this

Maybe Adam’s timing is bad or maybe you just don’t care for the man. But maybe this is a chance to a least “crack the door open” towards a playoff system. The fans now need to contact their college presidents and let them know they want a playoff!

By Terry

January 8, 2008 10:43 PM | Link to this

I like it, I’m for a playoff system of some sort, and using the top 8 teams is a great start!

It will be January Madness!!!!

Only 8 more months until the real football season begins!!!

By Buckie

January 8, 2008 11:31 PM | Link to this

I favor a playoff system and believe the format should be either 8 or 12 teams. Pitfalls and suggestions: 1. Injuries can (and will) play a big part in the outcome, so don’t expect the system to resolve all . 2. Only league champions or co-champions should be qualified. 3. NO Team gets to play at ‘home’ (USC, LSU, ASU, Florida/FSU/Miami, etc).

By ohiodawg

January 9, 2008 12:13 AM | Link to this

I am for a playoff, but I will tell you why I don’t think it will work. It isn’t about extra games on the schedule or academics it has to do with money. Think about this for a minute, under Adams proposal eight teams in the four BCS bowls, then a semifinal and finally a championship. Let’s just take UGA for example. We win the Sugar Bowl, then go onto to play in the semifinals and end up in the championship game. Sounds great, but what if the semifinal and championship are in Tempe. Is the average fan going to make that trip? You are talking about a solid three to four weeks on the road. I went to the Sugar Bowl and when it was all said and done it cost roughly 1k to make the trip. Take into account flights, hotels, food, tickets to the games, not to mention the time off work. It would cost a small fortune. Imagine the NCAA put the plan in motion and the semifinals and championship games are in a stadium that house 70k and there only 35k butts in seats. So, not only is the NCAA losing money because every team shrunk their schedule by one game to accommodate for the playoff, but now tehy are losing money like crazy with half empty stadiums for the final three games of the year. This is why there won’t be a playoff. The NCAA likes to hide behind the façade of caring about the students, but what it really boils down to is the NCAA doesn’t want to be faced with the possibility of losing money.

By Rick Shelley

January 9, 2008 6:47 AM | Link to this

We need to re-calibrate ourselves on the fundamental nature of sport: Sport is about not telling me you’re better than me, it’s about shutting your pie-hole, putting on your gear, getting out on the field of play and proving you’re better than me.

Our current system simply doesn’t do that. It depends on college coaches who are extremely knowledgeable about their own team and teams they will play, yet have little extra time to devote to examining other opponents for the purpose of casting ballots for other teams. It also depends on the opinions of highly biased sports journalists, who constantly remind us of their questionable depth of understanding of the game.

Mr. Adams suggestion to move to a Division I college football playoff system is overdue, and an eight-team format seems to strike a favorable balance between lengthening the football season into the second semester and providing an optimum opportunity for the best teams to face each other.

Finally, we need to overcome our fears that there is too much money in the current television broadcast rights/BCS bowl equation to ever instantiate a playoff system. Baloney. The NCAA has all the power it needs to turn it’s back on the greed of maintaining the status quo and restore it’s credibility in managing its most popular sport. It has the power to overcome the hypocrisy of telling a student-athlete that he or she can’t earn a little cash by using their regional notoriety to make a commercial for a local car company, then turn around and sell out the integrity of football for millions.

College football today is not a sport. It’s a beauty contest. Show some guts, NCAA. Let the players decide who the champion is.

By sage954

January 9, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

The only thing I do not like about the plan is that there would be a selection committee picking the eight teams. This is little better than what we have now. I understand that the basketball tournement has a selection committee, but the conference champions have an automatic bid and the committee is filling the rest of the 64 slots.

Why don’t we scrap the selection committee part of the plan, and simply have the 8 conference winners be the eight that get into the playoffs?

By Tigerfan

January 9, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

While I welcome suggestions by Mr. Adams to improve the current unbelievably flawed BCS system, one wonders why he waited to make them until a time when his school was in the mix for a possible spot in a playoff. Funny I don’t remember him chirping in with any such playoff suggestions when Auburn got left out in 2004, and when Oklahoma got in instead of USC in 2003.

By Dr. Kermit P. Soileau

January 10, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Just read Furman Bisher’s column on this. He was succinct in establishing that NO poll will ever be unquestionable. In addition, NO playoff will be unquestionable. Just exactly WHO will choose the final 8? You can be sure the SEC will get the shaft more than one time on that account. If and when Adams’ proposal in put in place (or any other playoff for that matter), the VERY FIRST TIME IT IS USED, it will generate controversy which will make the present BCS controversy look like child’s play.

By onedawg

January 10, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this

If D1 football does go to a playoff system, it will improve the post season so much that years from now we’ll look back and wonder, why did it take so long (to get the playoffs)?

By epb

January 11, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

For the 4 or 8, however would question a committee to choose the top teams for the playoff. Who would sit on this committee???? How large would this committee be? Can’t imagine the level of politics that could go on here. I think the “committee” is already in place. The AP, Coaches, or the BCS ranking system. It is a broad polling of opinions and although seems flawed at times, would not be as flawed as some newly formed NCAA committee that could be easily influenced.

Let the BCS system determine the top 8 or 4. I think they do have problems getting the top 2 right and there are always questionionable teams that should or should not have been choosen to play in the ONE big game. It is tough with so many good teams. I am confident though that if this system is allowed to pick 8 for a playoff they will get the top 6-8 teams in it and they can then play it out on the field.

And another thing - THE TOP 4 0r 8 teams, regardless of confrence!!!! If the top 8 include 3 from one confrence, so be it>

By humbug

January 11, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Years ago the bowls signed the best teams they could get. It was a reward for being a super team. Now determination is tied to conferences regardless of the quality of the teams. BCS must have been devised by TV network junior executives with no knowledge of football, just TV rights, advertising, and payoffs. A real playoff series would address their three concerns and increase quality of the bowls. We have to go back to the Real Way.

By Jim

January 12, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Adams has bigger fish to fry. He is fishing in too big a pond on this one. His format is wrong and his timing was too. The bowls and TV are calling the shots.

By Jim

January 12, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Adams has bigger fish to fry. He is fishing in too big a pond on this one. His format is wrong and his timing was too. The bowls and TV are calling the shots.