"Ya'll Ain't Listenin'!"

"Do we really have to keep going over this? Jay already told you how to do it!"

In my opinion the game of college football is the greatest sport in the world. The history and tradition of the game is unmatched by any other sport. From its very first game played in 1869 where the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) locked horns it's been amazing.

What most people don't realize is that college football is more of a regional game than anything. Teams have been playing one another for more than 100 years in most instances. These rivalries that have survived two world wars, Vietnam, the gulf wars and most recently the conflicts in the Middle East. Depending upon where you live you believe that your rivalry is the best in college football. For example, you can’t tell the good people of Alabama that Ohio State/Michigan is the best because they've been bread to believe that the Iron Bowl (Alabama vs. Auburn) is better. Ask that question in 5 different parts of the country and you'll get 5 different answers.

Also the bowl system has become the life blood of the game and its fans over the years. Not only do the fans look forward to the holiday opportunity to travel with their teams but the players themselves grow up dreaming of one day playing in one. Over the past few years there have been rumblings for having a playoff. I've heard of 16 team and 8 team scenarios that simply don't work simply because it would extent the season. These are college kids not professionals and they’re already getting pimped bruh. So in order to extend the season you’ve got to eliminate the bowls. It’s simple and in my Tupac voice, “that ain’t happenin’ patna!”

I proposed a Final Four format a years ago but boyz wouldn't listen. Now all of a sudden NCAA president Mark Emmert mentions it and now everybody listens. Who is he? E.F. Hutten or somebody?

"The notion of having a Final Four approach is probably a sound one," Emmert said when asked what he heard coming out of New Orleans this week. "Moving toward a 16-team playoff is highly problematic because I think that's too much to ask a young man's body to do. It's too many games, it intrudes into the school year and, of course, it would probably necessitate a complete end to the bowl system that so many people like now."

Bruh, just Holla At Ya Boy the next time that you want to come up with solutions for college football. Even though they are moving closer to having a four team playoff they're still moving in the wrong direction. I keep hearing folks say that we can just do the plus one system by having the bowls remain the same and then play one additional bowl game. Like having for example #1 and #4 play in the Rose Bowl in one semifinal. Then have #2 and #3 play in the Sugar Bowl and the winners play for the title a week later.

That sounds good if everybody was rich and didn't work bruh! The average college football fan isn't going to travel to two different bowl games over the Christmas Holidays. It’s ridiculous to even think that it's possible. Now would the games be sold out? Sure they would but not with those teams diehard fans in attendance. You'll turn the college football national championship into the Super Bowl. It'll become all corporate. The real fans that support the teams all year aren't at the Super Bowl bruh. It's a corporate entertainment venue.

What I've been saying all along is this. Start the season one week earlier and then on the first week of December have the Final Four. It would make sense to have the top two teams play at home and the bottom two travel. It would look like this; #1 vs. #4 and #2 vs. #3! The winners play in the BCS Title game in January and the rest of the bowls don't change. It's just that simple. Why are people making it more difficult than it has to be?

Just keep in mind that #5 is going to be pissed just like #3 has been for years. So in reality we really didn't accomplish anything because the teams will always be voted on. However, it would be exciting to have an official Final Four just a week after the conference championship games have been played.

When you've got 120 teams with essentially 5 different levels of play within the FBS division you'll always have to vote on the teams. Keep in mind folks that this isn't basketball where you can play multiple games in a week.


Lastly, be careful what you ask for. There are only 14 or so schools that have the talent to compete for a national title. All of the others are just hoping to play in a bowl and get the guaranteed pay out that helps to sustain their programs! For those hollering to eliminate the bowls just make sure your school is one of the 14.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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