Two More Weeks of Football - Too Much to Ask?

Trojan fans, the biggest silver lining, if there is such a thing after this week's loss to UCLA, is that the resulting BCS chaos has caused an even greater cry for a football playoff. How cool would it be if the BCS ended up like this (with the other bowls still giving the rest of the nation an extra meaningless exhibition, as bowls were originally intended to do):

January 1:
Rose Bowl - #1 Ohio State v. #8 Boise State
Fiesta Bowl - #4 LSU v. #5 USC
Orange Bowl - #2 Florida v. #7 Wisconsin
Sugar Bowl - #3 Michigan v. #6 Louisville

January 8 - Final Four at a bowl location(s) rotating each year
1:00 p.m. EST at the Orange Bowl - #2 Florida v. #3 Michigan [or upset winner(s)]
5:00 p.m. EST at the Rose Bowl - #1 Ohio State v. #4 LSU [or upset winner(s)]

January 15 - The National Championship
8:00 p.m. EST at the Sugar Bowl - winner v. winner

The next season, the Sugar Bowl, having hosted the prior national title, gets no Final Four games. The Rose Bowl gets the title, with the Fiesta Bowl and Orange Bowl getting semis. In 2009, the Rose Bowl gets no extras and the Orange Bowl hosts the title with semis at the Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl. Conference ties could still be loosely maintained. The Rose Bowl could take the game with the highest ranked Big 10 or Pac 10 team. If still available, the Fiesta could get the highest ranked Big 12 team, etc.

The season would be one week longer for 2 teams and 2 weeks longer for 2 more teams. The major bowls would all be must-see games and would all be relevant and sought-after bids. Rematches? Who cares. If Ohio State and Michigan play, who cares that it's a rematch? TV money would be insane. And the champion who emerged would be an undisputed national champion. The final AP poll would be no more relevant than the last regular season basketball poll.

What wouldn't be great about all that?

P.S. No January 2 or later bowls for anyone else.

Dear Jim Rome:

Basically, unless you are playing in a January bowl game, you are not playing in a real bowl game.

Best regards,
The International Bowl (January 6, 2007, Western Michigan v. Cincinnati) and
The GMAC Bowl (January 7, 2007, Ohio vs. Southern Miss)

Comments

[jojo]

Technically, since the BCS game is already a week later, you'd only extend the football season ONE WEEK for FOUR SCHOOLS. Perfectly acceptable.

[Cow]

One argument others would have, though, although I wouldn't: there's no ACC or Big 12 team in your playoff picture. The ACC and the Big 12 both suck this year, and I would be happy to see them not get in, but I doubt you'll ever see a playoff that doesn't involve all six major conferences plus Notre Dame.

[Cow]

I would watch three out of those four first round games, which is more than I can say for the BCS games this year. (And by extension, I'm pretty sure I'd watch the Final Four games and the finals..)