Wednesday, June 10, 2009

OOC scheduling

Imagine as a fan (which is, afterall, why college football is God's greatest gift to man), its the first week of the season, and you are ready for some football. There you are firing up the grill, tail-gating, taking a raod trip, or sittin' on the couch; whatever your style. The only problem with this is the games...they're boring. In fact most of them completely suck. Auburn takes on La Tech, Florida plays Charleston Southern, Ohio State plays Navy, Texas gets La Monroe, Tennessee get Western Kentucky, Uga goes to Stillwater in easily the most interesting matchup of the week. Now as a fan, aren't you bored/confused/a little pissed off??? Why is Florida not playing Texas? Why doesnt Tennessee take on the Buckeyes? Now those would be some games. The entire country would get to see what those teams were made of right off the bat.
This problem (yes its a problem) is not due to the coaches or players or even AD's. The problem is with the system. Its a system that does not enocurage top matchups, or s.o.s. if you will. Currently, its much more beneficial for a team, both financially and for their ranking, to play weak OOC opponents. Would a playoff system fix this? Nope. That would give fans decent matchups for the final 2 weeks maybe. I don't just want to see 2 weeks of solid matchups, fans want 4 or 5 weeks of Clash of the Titans syle OOC games...let's keep dreaming because the system isn't changing (at least for the better) anytime soon.

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