Bowl games make a metric fucktonne of money for the schools and the myriad host cities, which is why bowl games won't go away.
The closest thing I've ever heard to an honest-to-god REAL reason why there aren't football playoffs is because football has a much higher risk of injury, and a long postseason like that would increase the chance of harm to the players. That and since football teams play once a week, versus every few days like basketball teams, a tournament would take far too long.
I'm so glad to be out of the freaking Midwest, land of the Big 10, where college basketball is practically ignored. I've felt as if Ohio State and Michigan were both overrated all season long, and this just proves it.
And I absolutely adore March Madness, but you have to admit, Selection Sunday is fraught with its own controversy and stupidity. In some sense, the opacity and subjective nature of the selection process protects it from the criticism that the BCS "formula" gets from claiming to be more objective.
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The closest thing I've ever heard to an honest-to-god REAL reason why there aren't football playoffs is because football has a much higher risk of injury, and a long postseason like that would increase the chance of harm to the players. That and since football teams play once a week, versus every few days like basketball teams, a tournament would take far too long.
I'm so glad to be out of the freaking Midwest, land of the Big 10, where college basketball is practically ignored. I've felt as if Ohio State and Michigan were both overrated all season long, and this just proves it.
And I absolutely adore March Madness, but you have to admit, Selection Sunday is fraught with its own controversy and stupidity. In some sense, the opacity and subjective nature of the selection process protects it from the criticism that the BCS "formula" gets from claiming to be more objective.