Sensible Talk Front Page Archive for January 2010

Tomorrow's BCS championship surely will bring with it calls from some newspaper columnists and TV and radio hosts for a college football playoff. Some of them might point to polls that report public support for the idea of doing away with the traditional bowl system in favor of a playoff.

But how many people would support a college football playoff if it meant, for example, no longer having a Rose Parade on New Year's Day?

Because that's exactly what a playoff system would do.
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