College Football Can Learn From College Basketball E-mail
Written by Gene Zarnick   
Thursday, 19 November 2009

The college basketball season has just begun.  No major upsets yet, but some close calls.  We've had some good games already and many more to come right around the corner.  College basketball knows how to come out with a bang.  We had the 24 hour tip-off marathon on ESPN where we get to see about 15 games in one day.  This weekend and next weekend we get even more great matchups as early season tournaments wrap up including the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic and the NIT Season Tip-Off.  Tonight we get to watch #4 North Carolina go against #15 Ohio State in what should be a great game.  These early tournaments are a great way to get the season started and add some hype to a basketball season that still has about 30 more games until March Madness begins.

NIT

College football on the other hand lacks any excitement at the beginning of the season.  All we hear about is the complaints from fans that there are cupcakes on the schedule.  It's basically a time for us to bash teams and bash the state of college football since they don't have a playoff system.  I want to introduce a playoff system.  Wait a minute though, it's not what you're thinking.  Of course I want the National Championship to have a playoff to decide the winner, but we have to start with baby steps.  I think college football should take a page out of college basketball's book and start the season off with mini-playoffs.  I say get groups of four teams and have a playoff to begin the season.  We could have Penn State open up with their normal cupcake at home against Akron and then Georgia can open up against Georgia Southern at home.  The winners of those two matchups in week 1 would then go on to play in the early season tournament championship at a neutral site like FedEx Field in Washington D.C.  The losers could play on a neutral field or have it pre-determined to play on the home field of the losing team in one of the matchups.  This is simple.  It creates excitement, starts the season off right, and allows for the chance for a fun matchup to exist.  If college football just implemented little things like this is would provide the  foundation to see how a playoff system could go.

College basketball knows how to create excitement in the beginning, middle, and end of the season.  We see the ACC/Big Ten challenge every year in college basketball.  Why can't they do that in college football?  We see early season tournaments that may not mean a lot in the long run, but during the beginning of the season it means a lot to the players and it's excitement for the fans.  College football is exciting in it's own right, but we as fans know it can be even better.  We may not get the playoffs we want anytime soon, but lets follow in college basketball's footsteps and get some tournaments going in the beginning and middle of the season even if we don't have it at the end.

Ballhype: hype it up!



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