Big 10 3-4 in Bowl Games

Can you say WEAK??? The B10 was incredibly weak this year. Only Purdue, Penn State and Michigan won their Bowl Games. Michigan State and Ohio State lost fairly close games and IU and Illinois got blasted.

And these bowl tie-ins certainly don't make for good games. With The OSU getting into the championship game, Illinois was severely mismatched with USC. And that *trickled down all the way to MSU being outgunned by BC to IU being overwhelmed by OSU. And it wasn't just the B10. Hawaii had nothing for Georgia and on and on.

It's time for a true playoff. There is no reason why you can't have a 16 team playoff. Here is how it could have happended this year.

* 16 teams with the top 8 seeds hosting home games on Sat Dec 15th.
* 8 remaining teams play with the 4 top seeds again playing home games on Sat Dec 22nd.
* The lesser bowl games can still have their games throughout December.
* The 8 teams that lose in the first round of the playoffs and the 4 teams that lose in the second round would be eligible for 6 New Year's day bowl games.
* The 2 Semi-Final games would be rotated between The Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl, with the other 2 bowls getting the second round losers.
* The Championship game would become its own game that could be played anywhere the Monday after New Years.

In this example, the Bowl system could still survive and thrive and we could have a real national champion. But it makes too much sense. Instead let's have Myles Brand look into a Playoff solution. I can guarantee there will be no playoff as long as that dweeb is involved.