I absolutely love the war that wages every year between fans of college and pro football. It’s a topic that always gets heated and always leads to beatings, paralysis and often death. Okay, so that’s a little overboard, but the debate is always a great one.
However, with another year of college football coming to an end without a playoff system, I don’t know how one couldn’t love the setup of the NFL more. I hear it all the time: “Pro football players just play for the money.” “College players play for the love of the game.” “The atmosphere for college football is better, because it’s all kids.”
Great points, but the NFL also has a way to determine what the best team in America is. College football has the best way to bring politics into an arena were politics should never be allowed. How lucky is the BCS this year that it only has to deal with two teams (Florida and Michigan) in a web of controversy? What if Rutgers stayed unbeaten? USC beats UCLA? Oklahoma doesn’t get jobbed over by the refs? And what about undefeated Boise State? It’s ironic: the players in the NFL are driven by money, but yet the same thing drives the head honchos in college football.
The system sucks and the NC-two-A needs a playoff system to officially compete with the NFL. Until then, college football will always be that movie with a great setup, but no ending.
