Swagger Commentary...A Four Team Playoff

Imagine your frustration if you had looked at your 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Bracket and found that it only 4 teams were invited...Kentucky, Syracuse, Michigan State and North Carolina.  Would it have been as compelling?

Yet that is what is being considered as a replacement for the BCS in College Football beginning in 2014.  A four team playoff?  Is that really better than what we have now?  Would you have been compelled to see a 4-team playoff that only included Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma State and Stanford?  Is it really better than what we have now?

The only difference is that two of those four teams would have played a 15th game.  That is it.  At least the bowl games have tradition to go with them.  This "playoff" ensures that college football power and money remain with just a privileged few while sacrificing tradition and not replacing it with something better.

This is not what people want.  We want to see little guy Boise State knocking down big guy Oklahoma every year...or at least making a game of it.  That is what makes the NCAA basketball tournament so good.  It is rare that the little guy wins it all.  But they have a say in who does win it all.  For example, I thought that a #2 seed, Missouri, would win it all.  Then watched them lose to St. Louis in the 2nd round.

What would be better?  December Madness.  Something to else to talk about at holiday parties, or watch with all the friends.

Is this a step in the right direction...of course...but not a bold enough one.