playoffs you want to talk about

Playoffs???? You want to talk about Playoffs?

Having had the chance to digest the 2006 CFB season, I look at what

many people across the nation wants and that is a playoff system of

some sort. Who would have thought that the ingredient to get this

fantasy rolling would be "gator aid"? First let me give Florida some

love for winning the crystal egg when not many outside the southeast

thought it possible. That being said, their victory plus some other

factors beg some interesting questions. Most football pundits thought

from late August to January 7th that Ohio State was the unquestioned

#1 team in the nation. Everyone else was fighting for #2. On January

9th those same pundits wondered if they had been watching an illusion.

Not only did the Gators dispel the notion of the Buckeyes being number

one, they did so in convincing fashion. But they were not the only

ones that played mythbusters during the BCS games; Oh no....USC

climbed back into the saddle after a bad loss to UCLA, to show

Michigan that Pete Carroll and Co. that they could "fight on" and beat

a very quality opponent. And lets not forget Cinderella in all of

this. The Blue Turf Broncos of Boise State lived their desert dream

against a tough Sooner squad that returned the best RB in the nation.

Don't give me the whole "they beat `em on trick plays BS either. Boise

had a double digit lead well into the second half without running one

unconventional play. Plus they did not give up the dream after losing

that lead with just over a minute left to go. So throw all this

together with LSU's impressive performance against Notre Dame and you

have 4 teams left that could be the best in the country. Playoff

formats can be debated at another time, but I think its time for

everyone to realize the need for something different. So yes Coach