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Should be a great fight. Messenger Thompson on the undercard.

Agreed. Yeah. People should be allowed to cheat until we actually see quads tear and bodies lying on the field. I want my baseball to be played by either robots or dudes who want to feel like used up racehorses. Plus, if we ignore steroid usage then retarded teenagers will be able to do it even easier...more home runs in high school ball, babay!

I don't think SuperJerk liked my new, very important, thread about old Fred Fielding.

Know what scares me? These Mexicans swooping down on us all Red Dawn like. I dont want to drink deer blood with Patrick Swayze.

This is the second top 5 team that Wisco has beaten so far. Also won at Marquette for the first time in years. Buckeyes looked good during the comeback that came up a bit short.

The Gospel according to Andre The Giant.

It was but a mere second. But seriously, I am buddies with The Fridge and he says that Slayer is wrong on his prediction.

For a second there I thought Slayer was good pals with William Perry.

Welcome back to the White House, old pal.

Could be a huge game for Brees.

So you agree that Pete Rose should be in, right?

While I would love to see Couture take the belt away from Sylviazzzzzzzz I don't really want to see Randy in there with Cro Cop later in the year.

Who are the eight dweebs that didn't vote for Cal Ripken?

Yeah, but, Western Carolina is different!

SB25 was the first football game I remember watching. I think I was like 6. That was a long time ago.

I'll make Jack Nicholson the commisioner of my playoff format. Seriously though, the image of college football and its championship are given no help by coddling presidents and commisioners. It can either be about the game or the money. If its all about the money then the game will always suffer. But if more attention is payed to the actual game and its importance, by having both a tournament and Bowls, then more money actually stands to be made. If a big conference champ didn't make the 8 team tournament, they would still get into one of the top bowls.

I dont know about a 32 team tournament format. With 8 teams it can be down to the finals in 3 weeks (a playoff for a mid major inclusion could be the week before or something), the finals and semifinals could be on neutral fields to make more cash, leaving time for the vaunted Bowls to still take place, and the finals after they're done. Plenty of time to hype the finals, still get to play and talk about the Bowls, kids still get their opportunities, more money is made, no traditions or whatever are lost, and the National Championship looks more legitimate.

Either a seperate division for mid-majors or let the two best playoff for the #8 seed in the tournament. Conference champions dont necessarily have to be seeded into the tournament. It shouldnt be mandatory. If a conference is bad during a season and the champ ends up with a couple losses on the record, they might not get in. But they would still get a bowl game to make cash & give the kids the opportunity to play in a different locale.

I fail to see how a 3 week tournament in December, followed by a fat slate of Bowl games, then the finals of the Championship tournament will do anything but make MORE money for the NCAA. I dont think any of the 'prestige' of other bowls would be compromised or that there even is such a thing as an overabundance of football. I doubt ratings or attendance would suffer. GO IRISH!

Gwynn & Ripken going where they belong. McGwire - Ha ha.

So Notre Dame have dropped like 8 Bowl games in a row, this season got stomped by Michigan, and last season lost to USC...when exactly was the last time they won a big game?

The teams the experts talk about the most don't always win. They rarely do it seems. Unpopular/less hyped teams having the possibility of victory is not a good reason to keep the current system. Sorry.

Notre Dame shouldn't be allowed into another Bowl game or, if the NCAA poohbahs wises up, a tournament until they prove that they can actually win a big game.

Wisconsin, despite regular season scheduling, has won 2 consecutive bowl games over vaunted SEC teams. Czech, would your God's Teams proposal only include the SEC, some of the Big 12 & Pac 10, Ohio St, and Michigan? An 8 team National Championship tournament would be wittled down to the Finals within December...vacation time...leaving basically the same dates at the end for bowl games with Conference winners, tournament runner ups, and smaller schools. Two teams playing for the National Title get a couple weeks to prepare while other teams Bowl it up, not a month or more to atrophy, and play about the same date as this year.

Yeah. I didn't think there were any actually good reasons for the current setup.