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Oops, I'm sorry. I thought you wrote "Bottom Ten." Never mind.

Please...can we please get the Big 10 and Pac 10 on board and get a playoff system in place?!

Wait a minute! How is South Florida ranked ahead of Boston College?

Anthony, all the more reason to have a playoff system! South Florida is ahead of BC because something THINKS they are better!

The team occupying 1st place seems perfectly fine to me.

Hey, Anthony and Jeremy, South Florida beat Auburn of the Almighty SEC on the road and they beat West Virginia. Why shouldn't they be ranked ahead of BC? Just because you've never heard of them?

There is a playoff system. It's called the entire regular season. College football is the only major sport in which each week of the regular season is actually crucially important.

That said, I do think there should be a plus-one system.

This is the best college season ever (excepting all the ones when the Huskers won championships).

nick, easy now. first of all, i agree, great college football season! 2nd, not sure how you can think the playoff system you speak of (regular season) is a playoff system. If I'm in the Big 10, Big East, I'm all for that playoff system. A little imbalanced, don't you think.

Hey, I think South Florida should be in the top 5. Yes they beat Auburn, but let them play week in and week out in the SEC (yes, the Almighty SEC) and see if they don't lose 2-3 games. But here is the problem. I'm speculating, so are you, so is everyone else. If you have a plus one, eight team, twelve team, sixteen team playoff, there is still speculation. But at least you are speculating about teams outside the top 5 or 10.

Also, I did not say USF shouldn't be ahead of BC, I simply said they were there because someone THOUGHT they should be, not because they have proved their superiority on the field. I'm not sure that BC should be up there either. The ACC isn't necessarily a powerhouse either (but I'm still giving my opinion - speculation - that is the problem)

So, the idea that the whole season is a playoff is extremely problematic. The SEC is Almighty. 3 of the top 5 spots in the poll should be reserved for SEC teams :-)

To be honest, I'm in favor of a bit of uncertainty in college football. These guys are amateurs, and adding three extra games against top 10 teams isn't going to decide anything; it's just going to get these guys injured, some of them for life.

But if there is a playoff, let the championship be in real football weather, on real grass, at Lambeau Field. At least the weather will "ice down" the injuries. :^)

And why is this season so weird? Sloppy, individual oriented football, friends. Failure to block, failure to tackle, emphasis on personalities instead of fundamentals.

Robert, every other division in amateur organized American football - high school, Div I-AA (I still call it that), Div II, Div III, NAIA - have playoffs , and it decides a lot more than the current system. Injuries? I don't know. Take a game off the schedule, plus the bowl game and you are only talking about one more game.

Jeremy, good points, but I'm afraid that the television networks wouldn't allow it to be just one more game, nor would the schools. The schools would insist on that extra out of league game (as they have for the past decade or so by going to 12 game seasons from 11), and the TV networks would insist on at least eight teams in the playoff system to get commercial money out of the deal.

I'd like to be wrong here, but we could end up with these guys getting 15 games or so in a year. Quite a payday for everyone except for those risking the career ending knee injury, no?