THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Playoffs? Don't you talk about playoffs
By Jared Shanker
Iconsidered asking to have
my picture removed from
this column for the sake of
my own well
being. I fully
expect my read
ers, all 13 of
them, to never
pick up another
one of my
columns, or if
they do, use it to
whack me with.
It's a good thing
MY OPINION
I live in an apartment 10 stories
high or the bricks I'd see coming
my way would resemble a Shaq
free-throw session.
So in an effort to save myself
from bodily harm (though I have
been doing my P9OX Kenpo late
ly; jab, cross, hook, UPPER
CUT!), I'll let Jim Mora take the
heat and deliver the message:
"Playoffs? Don't talk about
playoffs! You kidding me? PLAY
OFF'S?"
Jimmy wa§ talking about the
NFL; I'm here to talk about col
lege football.
You kidding me? You want a 16-
team playoff and ruin the most
exciting regular season in sports
and the greatest three weeks in
competition in the near future. five of the six games. When he "He takes the losses really He said he hopes to get Bolden
"We got to evaluate how Rob does play, it's typically in the shot- hard," Jay Paterno said. more action on rollouts some
played and see how he played," gun late in games with the out- "Last week at lowa, he was thing he wasn't able to do
Jay Paterno said. come not in question and the [down]. I talked to him for a while Saturday when the offense was
But much of those offensive "And if something is warranted, Nittany Lions run the spread after that one, and [Saturday], only onfield for a third of the game.
struggles can be attributed to a then we'll talk about that later, but option. before I came over, I talked to him - We've got to look at it," Jay
poor offensive line, and the wide right now, that's not part of the dis- There is no indication Newsome for a while. That's a good sign that Paterno said.
receivers have dropped balls on cussion." may compete for the starting role. it matters to him." "I think we've kept the package
key third downs. Following Backup Kevin Newsome has Jay Paterno said he sees Bolden's Jay Paterno said he hasn't been fairly tight."
Saturday's loss, Jay Paterno said seen minimal time this season, demeanor on the sideline as that trying to put too much onto the
he didn't foresee any quarterback going 6-for-13 with appearances in of a leader. freshman's shoulders at one time
Bolden
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the end of the last season, too.
Teams 10-16 averaged three loss
es. Does a three-loss team
deserve to be in the national title
hunt?
And who gets the at-large bids?
Allow every conference an auto
matic bid and you get something
like the No. 1 vs. No. 16 matchups
in March.
Would some mid-majors, like
the Mountain West, get automatic
bids while others are still left out
in the cold? Isn't that just what a
playoff is supposed to be in place
to prevent?
Cut it down to an eight-team
playoff, you say. No chance the
BCS conferences agree with that
without a guaranteed spot for its
champion. That leaves two at
larges, and you think conferences
wouldn't be up in arms if those
spots went to Boise State and
TCU, two mid-majors?
A seemingly simple solution, as
my colleague and football writer
Andrew J. Cassavell points out
(he calls it the AJCS), is to play
the BCS bowls with the usual tie
ins. After, the top two teams in
the BCS standings would play for
the national championship a
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Ohio State and No. 2 Oregon,
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find its way into the national title
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victory and quality wins. Teams,
like USC (2003) and Auburn
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the stick.
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was switched to only include
human and computer polls, there
hasn't been much issue with the
BCS. It has consistently pitted the
two best teams, and that is what
the BCS is all about.
In 2008, the perpetrators were
the humans, not the computers.
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the country at the end of the year.
The same could be said for
2009.
The BCS was a disaster before,
but now it's the best system avail
able. It incorporates the human
polls, preserves the regular sea
son and the distinction of a
national champion (a No. 14 seed
as a national champion? Ew) and
keeps the bowl games.
Fact is, in most years and every
year since the system was
altered, the BCS has gotten it
right. They did what it was sup
posed to do: force No. 1 to play
No. 2. Think Joe Paterno wouldn't
have killed for the BCS in 1994?
I could go on and on about how
a playoff would ruin college foot
ball. It isn't the NFL, and it
shouldn't be. Thankfully, it's not
the NBA and NHL, where every
body gets in, even sub-. 500 teams.
Do I sound convincing?
Probably not. but at the end of the
day, and it's unfortunate that this
is the reasoning, but the BCS is
less worse than a playoff.
Now let that paper airplane fly!
Jared Shanker is a senior majoring in
journalism and history and is the
Collegian's sports columnist. His e-mail
address is jpss226@psu.edu.
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