Jesus fucking Christ college football
When it comes to sports, I love tradition. I want every sport to be the way it was when I was a kid and learning about baseball, football, etc. I don’t want a wildcard in baseball, I want divisions in hockey named after people that are dead, and I want college football to play as many games as possible on January first.
I know this isn’t news, but there have been less and less bowl games played on January first ever since the national championship game was moved until January 2nd. What a slippery slope that was. I don’t even remember how long that’s been. This year there will be five games played on the first. There will be another five played on the 2nd. They take January 3rd off, and then another game each night for the next four days (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th).
This sucks. People want to complain that there is no playoff, but I would much rather prefer neither a playoff system, nor the BCS. How many times was there a serious problem determining a college football national champion for the decades and decades that we had neither? And what we did have was tradition. Best Pac 10 team vs. the best Big 10 team = Rose bowl. Rivalries, bragging rights, etc
Blame TV, whatever, I don’t even know. I just know this sucks. What sense does it make that Ohio State is playing in the Rose Bowl on January 1st, and Iowa and Michigan State(6-6 Michigan state mind you) are playing after them on the 2nd and 5th.
In conclusion, Adams and Patrick divisions in the Wales Conference of the NHL, As many bowl games as possible on January 1st, and none after that date, with the lame bowls taking place earlier, and 2 divisions in baseball with no wildcard.