Once again, Wetzel claims this plan as his own
Not sure exactly what to do, but as this is the 4th year this site has been up at this domain, with nary a tweak in terms of the actual plan, I’m pretty well established as the creator of this “plan”. Heck, I published this plan for a few years before even setting up the site. But once again, Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel is claiming this as his “Wetzel plan”, which happens to be exactly the same as mine, and publishing it on Yahoo.com as his own. This is the second year in a row he is claiming my plan as his own, and it is very frustrating. But what can you do when someone steals your content? It isn’t hard for him to find me, since this site comes back #1 on Yahoo for anyone searching for “college football playoff system”. It’s not even like he had to review a lot of sites to come up with his plan. Find the #1 ranked site on Yahoo, copy it, and claim it as his own. What’s not to love about that? Oh well… maybe I’ll change the name to the Weasel plan, since that is what his version seems like. One simple line of credit would resolve all of this, and I’d join forces with him to promote this excellent “solve all problems and give us a great pplayoff system” plan.
Enough sour grapes from my end… we have some big games coming up this weekend!
And Dan, next time you’re here checking out my site, drop me a line at joe.rozsa@bcsfootballplayoffs.com. I’d like to chat! -Joe
Playoff Bracket Unveiled
We can look forward to some great matchups next weekend, including Penn State at Florida (PSU is #12 because LSU would have been an SEC first round game). That would be a great game, as would LSU at TCU, Iowa at Oregon, and Georgia Tech in Columbus to play the Buckeyes.
Virginia Tech travels to the blue turf to play Boise State, and Cincinnati hosts the aerial attack of Central Michigan. Alabama hosts in-state counterpart Troy, while Texas hosts the Pirates of East Carolina to round out the first round matchups.
We’d love to hear your comments on these matchups, who you think will win (games will be simulated on the PS3 game system NCAA College Football 2010, in actual weather conditions on the actual day of the games). This could be the greatest time of the year for college football fans. Just imagine if we were going to get to see these games taking place, not to mention some of the potential second round matchups that would be incredible.
2009 NCAA Football Playoff Bracket
Actual BCS Games Set, and As Usual… Nobody Cares
Alabama and Texas square off for the real “National Championship”, and it remains possible that three NCAA teams will finish the season undefeated. Heck, we’re assured that at least two teams will finish as unbeatens. But the BCS says the winner of Alabama / Texas will be national champion, so tough luck to the others. So it’s another season down, another stupid and illegitimate finish. One game matters now, and there will be 33 meaningless exhibition games known as the bowl season. Nothing better than a ton of games meaningful only to gamblers and friends of the program to get us through the holiday season. Nothing could be better, right?
Well… something could be better. We’ll explain in the next post. And when we say better, we mean “wow, this is freaking awesome” better, not just a little better. More like “one of the best things ever” better.
Welcome to Selection Sunday
After an interesting Saturday of conference championship games, we are now to the day when the 2009 NCAA college football backet will be unveiled. What a great day this would be if this were real. For the sake of this site, we pretend that it is, and enjoy every minute of breaking down the games to recreate some of the excitement of the games that would be happening next weekend.
Here is what we know. The 11 automatic qualifiers for the 2009 NCAA football playoffs:
ACC Champion – Georgia Tech
Big 12 Champion – Texas
Big East Champion – Cincinnati
Big 10 Champion – Ohio State
Conference USA Champion – East Carolina
MAC Champions – Central Michigan
Mountain West Champions – TCU
Pac 10 Champions – Oregon
SEC Champions – Alabama
Sun Belt Champions – Troy
WAC Champions – Boise St.
These 11 schools will have a spot in the bracket later today, along with 5 at large teams. Currently, those five at large teams project to be Florida, Iowa, Penn State, Virginia Tech, and LSU – but those will not be official until the final BCS rankings come out later today. We’ll have the official bracket unveiled this evening, along with game dates and locations and the complete bowl breakdown as well. Come back later today for the official pairings and help us get ready for the 2009 NCAA College Football Playoffs!
Championship Week
Just imagine, if you will, how important these conference championship games would be if there was a playoff spot on the line. Central Michigan vs. Ohio for the right to go to Texas and play the Longhorns in round one.
Oregon vs. Oregon State where the winner gets a shot at a National Championship rather than a meaningless Rose Bowl – and sorry, but it is. Ohio State vs. either of those two teams is a meaningless game.
Florida vs. Alabama for the #1 overall seed. Georgia Tech and Clemson for a shot at the dance. Nebraska and Texas battling it out with a Nebraska win being the only shot for 2 Big 12 teams in the playoffs, knocking out a team like LSU from the playoff bubble. Yes, it would be an absolute HUGE week in college footbal this weekend.
But instead we get one big game, Florida and Alabama. In a prelude to the other big game, the winner of that one against Texas or TCU, unless it’s a rematch of Florida / Alabama, which I’d personally love to see because it would say unequivocally that the current system is a farce. But I think it is very likely. Do you really think anyone wants to see TCU or Cincinnati play for the National Championship? Even if they deserve the shot.
This year, we could end up with 5 unbeaten teams, and I personally am hoping that we do. That way, even a four team playoff would not address the problems. We need to have a playoff system, and that system needs to be done right. Every team has a chance to win the National Championship. You would see better regular season games, more meaning for conference championships, and some great football in December.
But instead it is another year of what could have been. We could have been gearing up for games next weekend in Gainesville, Austin, Boise, Cincinnati, Columbus, and more. 106,000 tickets being sold to fans wanting to watch Georgia Tech and the Buckeyes for the right to advance to play Alabama – are you kidding me? How great would that be? Instead, Buckeye fans can take a nap for another 30 days until they play again.
We’ll be using our new site to bring you all of the action of what could have been the most exciting week of the year. So keep checking in with playoff updates and join us in dreamland.
Site Update In Progress
Thank you for visiting. We are releasing a new BCSFootballPlayoffs.com on Sunday evening after, the BCS poll has been released. It will be quite swell, so please do come back and check us out tomorrow!
