playoff Stories - Corn Nation
Slive Pumps the Brakes Somewhat on Playoff Talk
One of the immediate lessons coming out of the 2011 college football season is that a playoff is coming to the Football Bowl Subdivision. Even the traditionally anti-playoff Big Ten has leaked a plus one plan, though it's more to make the conference look like its not standing in the way of progress...
B1G Thinking About a Four Team College Football Playoff
The Big Ten is planning to propose a four-team college football playoff system to supplement, not replace the current bowl structure and BCS. Previously, the Big Ten was one of the fiercest opponents to a playoff system, but now recognizes that many, if not most, college football fans consider the...
A Playoff Is Coming
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: the SEC has won the current BCS system. After Auburn got left out of the title game 2004, SEC partisans relentlessly pushed the idea that it was ludicrous to exclude the champion from the nation's best conference if it was one of the worthy...
Study: Ohio State Bucks Bowl Ticket Trend
Bowl payouts seem relatively straightforward to those who unknowingly glance only once. The truth is, they're convoluted and aren't terribly logical. As part of a larger, ongoing study of value added by each institution to its conference, an examination of Ohio State's institutional bowl expense...
What's Your Beef With Boise State?
Hopkins Horn sort of introduced the topic yesterday, but if you waded into the game thread(s!) for any period of time tonight, you're aware that more than a few Texas fans were NOT HAPPY about the prospect of Boise State winning that football game. And I can't say that I really get it. A good bit...
Do you believe in miracles? Yes! BSU wins it all
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep. And we have had the following dream/wish every night for the past two months (click for a larger view): Boise State Broncos: National Champions. ESPN's bowl simulator says so; therefore, it must be true. This Cinderella story was sent...
Lee Corso opens mouth, makes fool of himself
One thing I've always found comical in sports is how we often rely on failed sports figures to provide us detailed commentary on the most crucial stories of the day. One example is Lee Corso, who had a fairly uneventful coaching career at Louisville, Indiana and Northwestern. Yet he is one of the...
Debunking the "they don't deserve it" argument
There is a small -- and hopefully it remains that way -- group of people out there who want to prop up the notion Utah somehow doesn't deserve a national championship. I'm sure in the coming days and weeks they'll become more vocal as we make our case, which is why I see it fit to nip this foolish...
Paterno & FSU President Back a Football Playoff
Joe Paterno and Florida State president T. K. Wetherell recently jumped into the ongoing debate over creating a Division 1-A (officially known as the Bowl Championship Subdivision) football championship playoff. Paterno favors it , while Wetherell says it's inevitable : "To be frank with you, I...
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