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I just accepted this throwdown a week ago and just lost by about 2. Hope you fare better panthersfan10. But it's a good topic so I'll wait to vote until the end.

Dude Me and that dude just had a battle on that and i won so sorry panthersfan10 your going to lose.

You could get business' to sponsor playoff games, the super bowl makes bank on their commercial ads, it would be the same for the ncaa playoffs. You could do a 16 team playoff and keep some of the bowls and have the best of both worlds. Then split the money fairly according to how many games you win, with the NC making more money and so on. You say the players would get tired for playing more games but the season keeps getting longer and longer. Have a 10 game regular season, a week for conference championships, week off and then start your playoff and you can make it so it ends around Jan 1. It just depends on if the college presidents want to name a true NC or just try and make some money.

you going to lose

Well, this is bloody obvious. Anyone with any affinity to sport and competition will realize that a championship decided on the field is infinitely more fair, and infinitely more entertaining than a bunch of corporate stuffed-shirts deciding who should play whom. The money argument holds no water. Do you realize how much money could be made off of a football version of march madness?? it would be outrageous. If you like the bowl system, you don't like fairness of comepetition.

i'm voting for panthersfan because i believe in good arguments in sports, not no arguments

top 16 in a playoff and the rest that qualify for a bowl game play a bowl game

ok ppl we get it stop using this topic besides its just a matter of personal opinion that could go either way. ive seen ppl who won throwdowns supporting a playoff system and ive also seen ppl who have won throwdowns supporting the current bowl system plz ppl we know its an issue but just leave it be

It's ridiculous that some guy can make a knee-jerk assertion, not back it up at all, and still be up 20-13.

i like TheUandDenver's idea

The thing I like about the bowl system is the extra importance it gives to the regular season. One loss makes a huge difference. A team that gets hot at the end of the year, but struggled early on, cannot win the championship. To even have a chance to be the champion, you need sustained excellence for an entire season.

The only thing I would like to see change is for school to schedule stronger Out of Conference games. If a playoff allows the fall schedule to be better then I would support it. If the bowl season placed a greater emphasis on real games not just W-L record with games against Temple or Bowling Green etc padding the totals then I support the bowls.

Bowl System=$$$$$$. NCAA presidents will never put their greed aside and vote for a playoff system. Screw the fans, $$$$ rules.

CUERAZO:

A playoff system often not a measure of the best team, but of the hottest team. No one wants to play the team coming in hot (Warriors in the NBA). Sometimes teams just get on a streak and happen to win, despite their mediocrity all season.

EXAMPLE: The Steelers from 2 years ago. There's not a non Steelers fan that thought they could get through all those elite teams they did that year. And if we were to replay those playoffs, I bet everyone would still pick the Colts or the Pats or whoever they had back then. Essentially the Steelers championship was a fluke, and that happens sometimes in playoffs. Whether it be from extreme over confidence, injuries to the best team, horrible officiating, stupid **** NBA decisions (f*** you David Stern, Robert Horry and all of the Spurs).

Now what NCAA football does is look at a team's whole season, and tries to find the 2 most consistently good teams because they figure those have to be the 2 best and let them play it out. They reward the best teams for being the best. And no it isn't foolproof, but neither are the playoffs. At least when you have one big bowl game it probably contains what most pple think are the 2 best teams and both are probably at full strength.

I just wanna dispell this notion that playoffs always work.

And I haven't even mentioned how no playoffs makes every single regular season game extremely important.

$$$$ or a true champion?

How can the one side be up 10 pts when they haven't even made a Legitimate argument yet???

I would agree with JTMeek on this though, it is all about the dollar signs.

This is a no brainer for me. There was another throwdown saying the college game is better than pro. I might re-consider if there is a playoff put into place.

playoffs would make it much more fair. it would leave the championship in the hands of the team, not the BCS system.

Vedderisbetter: A playoff makes the likelihood of a "hot" team winning it all even less probable. That team would have to have had a decent enough season to make the playoffs and then sustain their hot-streak all the way through the post-season. Very rare. A team on a "hot streak" in the bowl system would only need to be hot for one game. (i.e. Boise State) You use Pittsburgh as an example of a team on a hot streak. I submit to you that Pittsburgh was a good team overlooked by it's opponents. In a playoff system, Boise State may have won a game or two but never could have battled through with just good fortune on their side.
It's all a moot point because of $$$$$. Man I can't wait to see who plays in next year's Poulan Weed Eater Bowl!

A playoff system would be better for all the schools who do not belong to the traditional Division 1 teams that get selected to play in the Championship Bowl game just look at Boise State and Utah both were undefeated and both played awesome games. They were passed up by teams who had a loss, just because they had a better schedule? I'd love to see the New Mexico Lobos hand it to someone like Florida or Ohio State one day. It would almost be as good as seeing the COWBOYS play the redskins in a Superbowl or the Raiders & Chiefs. Just think about it the best should play the best. It just sounds stupid to argue if a team got "Hot??? to not have playoffs.