How Fun It Could Be

This year’s college football season is has been a whirlwind of inconsistency and conventional wisdom has been thrown out the door. Multiple traditional powerhouses have been upset by Division I-AA teams and it seems like every time a team is be blessed with the covenant #1 BCS ranking, they’re defeated the next week by an unranked opponent. College football needs a playoff system more than ever because the level of competition is starting to even and you really never know how good a team is until it has to play a season worth of football and play a variety of football teams. Champions should be crowned on the field and not hand selected by media types who think a team looks unbeatable.

I normally propose an 8 team playoff every year around this time, but yesterday I read an article on yahoo sports by Dan Wetzel and he lays out how he’d organize a 16 team college football playoff system. Click HERE to read how Wetzel would do it. Just think how fun it would be to see how these games would turn out in really life. Since I’m a UGA fan, I want to imagine how cool it would be to see the Bulldogs lead the pack and finish as national champions.

First, we’d host Brigham Young between the hedges and shut down their stout offense and send them back to Utah with ease. Next, the Rainbow Warriors of Hawaii and former Atlanta Falcons coach June Jones would fly completely across the country to catch a beat down. Hawaii would be at a disadvantage because of the serve time difference and the chilly southern winter. Both offenses would put up points in the first half, but time would be on our side as they lag in the second half because of fatigue and the time difference. We beat them in the second half with solid smash mouth football.

Dream match ups occur in the third round as UGA host USC. Both schools have a history of football excellence and both schools are known for making running backs famous. Honestly, if UGA could’ve beat Florida in the early 2000’s, we would’ve been challenging USC for national titles back then. Currently, both teams are probably the hottest in country after bouncing back from slow starts. Sanford Stadium would be off the chain, as Knowshon Moreno and Matthew Stafford have order a second black out for the season. The Dawgs win in overtime as UGA holds USC to a field and score touchdown off a Matthew Stafford pass on first down.

The semi-final on the other side of the bracket would have Florida versus West Virginia. It would be the battle of scrambling quarterbacks, as Pat White takes on Tim Tebow. Each quarterback would rush for two touchdowns each, but Steve Slatton would be the X factor as he rushes for 200 yards to push the Mountaineers into the national title game that has evaded them for the past three years.

As always, the national title game would be played at a neutral stadium, and I think it’ll be in New Orleans, Louisiana this year. As Georgia fans know, this would be a rematch from the 2006 Sugar Bowl. On that occasion, Steve Slatton, Pat White and the whole West Virginia football program truly gained national exposure when the upset UGA 38 - 35. The Mountaineers shot out to a 30 point lead, but then UGA quarterback D.J. Shockley responded and helped the Dawgs tie the game in the fourth quarter. West Virginia won with a last minute field goal.

Georgia gets its revenge in a high scoring game. Offensive coordinator Mike Bobo deals up a Knowshown Moreno run that should've set up for a winning field goal, but Moreno turns a simple up the middle into a impressive and amazing touchdown run and the University of Georgia Bulldogs win the National Title! How fun it could be.