I like how it was in the '80s and early '90s.
Pre-Bowl Coalition?
Yeah. Everyone out for themselves making shady deals to get into their bowl of choice.
Don't give a eff about a so-called national champion in a 120-team sport that only plays 12 games. If the Cats were to ever go undefeated, we're the champs no matter what some redneck racist in Alabama thinks.
YES! To take it one step further, I never understood the need for people to crown a "national champion." Conference champions are ok, because more often than not, everyone plays each other. WGAF about a "national champion."
Seems like the people who clamor for a "national champion" are media and general sports fans who don't have a diehard interest in their particular team. As an EMAW, I'll be perfectly content with kicking the crap out of all the conference rivals and somebody in a bowl game and proudly wearing my goEMAW KSU National Champions shirt.
It's not mathematically possible to have a fair champion in a sport with 100+ teams and 12-15 games to sort it out in.
A playoff with only conference champions and no at large bids would be completely fair.
No, there'd be like 8-9 games to pick a conference champion from a 10-16 team conference. Some teams wouldn't play each other at all, let alone home and away to make it fair.
This year's conference champ is probably going to be OSU because it's a year when the OSU/OU game is in Stillwater, filled with racists who should be whipped with MIR's belt.
The NFL is fair. 16 games to whittle 32 teams down to 12. Uniform schedules. Best regular-season teams get big advantages in the playoffs. It's great. Can't be done with 120 teams. And that's fine.
