Playoff PAC To Air College Football Playoff Ad (VIDEO)

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(AP) WASHINGTON — A new political action committee plans to run ads this week pushing for a playoff system for college football.

Playoff PAC says it will run the ads in Dallas, Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho ahead of Thursday's national championship game between Texas and Alabama. The ad highlights the fact that two undefeated teams, TCU and Boise State, are not getting a chance to play for the title. The two schools face off Monday night in the Fiesta Bowl.

The ad also includes comments from Bill Hancock, the executive director of the Bowl Championship Series, saying not everyone can play in a championship game.

A copy of the ad, which also will run on the Web, was obtained by The Associated Press.

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[Mattcat25]

04:34 PM on 01/07/2010

The NFL should switch to playing Bowl Games, and then choose their National Champion by polls.

[imajoebob]

01:18 AM on 01/06/2010

Give it a rest!! Who really cares? No, I mean REALLY cares. People are spending millions of dollars to help them decide which waste-of-money football team is better than the rest. What a joke.Instead of spending 20 million dollars a year on football, shouldn't Texas spend the money on developing alternative energy sources (to replace all the oil industry jobs that will disappear in the next generation)?

And I'm sure some pinhead is shouting, "Football makes money for the university!" Sure, it does if you're Texas or Notre Dame or Florida. But do you think Maryland makes money? Fresno State? Northwestern? No way. Most schools lose money, and most of the rest would make more money investing in CDs. And it ties up huge amounts of money that would get a better return elsewhere.

And if you still want to pursue the money argument, then the last thing you want is a playoff. Boise State is hauling in millions because they can claim they're number 1. And so will the winner of the Alabama-Texas game. And fans will keep arguing - and keeping college football in the headlines until next season! Wins all around.

[Disciple1]

11:28 AM on 01/05/2010

The top 8 teams at the end of each year could play in a single-elimination playoff. The bowls would not suffer loss of revenue due to such a FAIR system, they would actually benefit. The championship game would be rotated between bowl cities each year. All the remaining "lesser bowl games" could still be played as recognition rewards for those teams that did not finish in the elite 8. Money could still be made at those venues. Oh, yes--get rid of the computer ranking system and give it to a panel of coaches and sportswriters (No fans, please).

[Lordsuhn]

09:01 AM on 01/05/2010

The best way to get rid of the BCS is to not watch the games. I know it will hurt, but it will force them to change.

I for one will not be watching anymore BCS 'championship' games.

[kndam72]

12:22 PM on 01/05/2010

me too

[davidariley]

01:16 AM on 01/05/2010

glad to see SOMEONE is pointing out the obvious.

[iRock]

12:18 AM on 01/05/2010

BCS = Big Crock of S**t

[Palemoon]

12:12 AM on 01/05/2010

After watching the best game so far this bowl season, I think Boise State has a right to play anyone in the nation in the BCS. They've earned it repeatedly. TCU was no slouch either as they beat some good teams from around the country as well.

I think it's time for the BCS to stop acting like spoiled children and allow the teams from the West to compete. They are every bit as good as a Florida, Alabama, Notre Dame or Ohio State.

[MuchMadness]

09:00 PM on 01/04/2010

Rather than stage a Separate But Equal Bowl, which is really what this year's Fiesta Bowl amounts to, why don't the big conferences just come right out and refuse to let the other conferences be part of the BCS system? It is clear that the top six conferences really want to exclude the other conferences.
TCU and Boise State are both better than Cincinnati, but Cincy is in a big boy conference, so it got the Sugar Bowl bid.

[EdinNJ]

09:31 PM on 01/04/2010

Actually, this year the Sugar Bowl picked after the Fiesta, so they didn't have a choice in taking Cincinnati, since they had the last pick.

What preserved the status quo this year was TCU-Boise St. instead of Cincy-TCU and Florida-Boise St. The Fiesta Bowl was able to kill two birds with one stone for the BCS by avoiding having a non-BCS team made a compelling case for the national championship by beating a BCS power, while at the same time making more money due to the shorter travel distances for TCU and Boise to Phoenix increasing attendence.

[MuchMadness]

09:50 PM on 01/04/2010

That's what I mean. The Fiesta Bowl helped out the Big 12 conference, with which it has a deal, by making sure that the Big 12 team Texas, who is playing Alabama for the national championship, would not be embarrassed by the possibility of TCU beating a BCS conference team like Cincy, strengthening TCU's case for being the best football team in the state of Texas. So the Fiesta gobbled up both Boise State and TCU and left pesky Cincy to get mauled by Florida in the Sugar Bowl.

One way or another, the big conferences work together to keep the little conferences down. Many of the teams from the six big conferences refuse to play teams like Boise State and TCU.

[TchoupitoulasCanal]

07:52 PM on 01/04/2010

It's all about money. The larger schools with the most alumni support and big-named boosters means more money for all of these BCS games.

The BCS doesn't care about talent or fairness, they simply see this system as a traveling money machine.

[David Fruits]

07:46 PM on 01/04/2010

Every other ncaa football division and sport have a playoff. Explain how THIS division preserves integrity???????

[jbskin]

04:31 PM on 01/04/2010

I think the whole college sports system needs a change. I think players should be able to profit off of the sales of their jerseys. I dont believe they should be paid for a game, but when you are walking around with a Tim Tebow jersey, he should get a cut of that sale. Schools make millions of dollars each year and only give scraps back to the players and students. I believe Texas just made 64 million in profits this year alone. They could send everyone to school for free and not charge them. I know some of the money does go back to the school, but the whole process is so un-american it is ridiculous. This is unfair labor at its best. Schools make huge profits but the students and the players do not get any savings!!

[AxelDC]

03:58 PM on 01/04/2010

It's sad they have to spend good money to state the obvious:

The BCS is ruining college football! Not only have they ruined the post-season, but they are encouraging teams to go for perfect seasons rather than exciting regular season match ups.

The result was one of the most boring September line ups in college football. If a major team didn't have a challenging conference schedule, then they went through the entire season unchallenged. Texas is the perfect example of this, padding its schedule with UTEP, LA-Monroe and UCF. The best teams they played were Ok State, who was embarrassed in the Cotton Bowl by Ole Miss, and a Nebraska team that would have beaten them if refs were not so generous with the clock.

The BCS masters claim they are preserving the integrity of the regular season, but they are really telling teams that the way to the championship is a high preseason rating, an easy non-conference schedule, and a down year for an overrated conference. The biggest losers are the fans.