Saturday, April 16, 2011

Perfecting Perfection

We all know College Football is the greatest and best and most amazing sport that God has given to this world. BUT... there are some things that could make it even better. From playoff to scheduling, here is a list of the top 10 things I would change about college football for the better. I have also included a likeliness factor:

10 = Being discussed now
9 = Likelihood Cam Newton was paid off
8 = Being discussed secretly right now
7 = SEC will win a 7th straight Nat'l Title
6 = Andrew Luck wins the Heisman
5 = Texas still sucks
4 = Florida still sucks
3 = Ohio State fires Jim Tressel
2 = Ohio State's replacement coach is Urban Meyer, who has a long and spotless track record of dealing with arrests and player misconduct.
1 = Lane Kiffin can hold down a job for more than two years
0 = Duke will win a football national championship before this happens.

10. Define what preseason polls mean. This might be just me, but it is my biggest pet peev in all of sports. What does a preseason poll mean? Does it mean how good you think the team is now? How good it will be at the end of the season? How many games it will win? Because these three criteria are very very different. And everyone seems to think it's ok to vote based on the perceived difficulty of the future schedule. Of course, the entire thing is ridiculous, and way too powerful. The position of a team in the preseason poll can effect its final ranking drastically. Unfair!
My idea: standardize what the preseason poll means. It should mean "how good is this team right now?" just like every other week's polls. Why is Week 0 so different? Of course, if it was entirely up to me, I would not release any polls until the 5th or 6th week. Like I do on my blog. Because on my blog, it is entirely up to me.
Likelihood: 6