Why Are College Football Authorities Against Playoffs?
By Nishan Wilde As an avid college football fan, I have been wanting to address this issue for a while now. My question is this – why is there no post-season playoff in college football? There has been much speculation over the past few years that points to the eventual implementation of a playoff, but so far nothing has come to fruition. With so many reasons for a playoff, I simply can’t fathom why college football authorities are so against playoffs. What reasons you ask? Well, here are just a few: 1. Every other sport in America does it. Why do you think that is? Because it makes sense! What playoffs provide that the current bowl-game program does not is a clear-cut winner. There is never any debate as to who deserves the title unlike in the BCS bowl series. 2. Sometimes the polls disagree over who should be in the title game. Currently, three polls are used to determine the championship match-up – the AP poll, the BCS poll and the Coaches poll. In the past, these polls have disagre
