In one of the most ironic turn of events I have ever witnessed, the University of Georgia President, not only a week ago proposed and supports an 8 team college football playoff to decide the national champion; but now THIS week has the cahones to call out the Big Ten as being obstructionists to a playoff?
Ok, first off, I 100% agree with Dr. Michael Adams, (president of the University of Georgia), about the Big Ten. He is absolutely, 100% correct that the Big Ten does not, and likely will not EVER, support any type of 8 team college football championship. And the reason is very simple. The Rose Bowl.
But for a president of a member school of the SEC conference to even hint that another conference is obstructionist and in essence exclusionist, is laughable if not stupid. The SEC is the biggest reason why we have this BS entity called the "Bowl Championship Series", to begin with. Whether Adams was the UGa president when the SEC voted on creating this debacle, I do not know. But why is it that NONE of those SEC presidents talk about getting OUT of the BCS system and forming a playoff system, except when it is their school that is basically left out? Not only that, but as I just alluded to, it was former SEC commissioner Roy Kramer who proposed, pushed and even bullied the other conferences like the Big Ten to form the BCS to begin with!
And do you see ANY of the SEC schools threatening to walk from the BCS post-season bowl picture if a playoff is not formed? Hardly. The SEC is the single BIGGEST winner every year in the BCS system as it stands today. The SEC, since the institution of the BCS title game to the method of the system, has had two teams playing in BCS bowl games. So do not give that "poor, pitiful me" nonsense Adams.
The SEC has done EVERYTHING it can to block inclusion to BCS games to teams not part of the "big six" conferences, and even suggested that the Big East should lose its automatic bid once Boston College, Miami(FL), and Virginia Tech bolted for the ACC. Luckily, that did not happen, and the Big East has earned its automatic bid by winning every single one of their BCS games since the expansion of the league to its current member configuration.
But as ironic and self-serving as Adams statements are, he is right. The Big Ten and the PAC-10 walk hand-in-hand when it comes to the Rose Bowl. And at no time was that more evident than the 2008 version of the Rose Bowl, when the RB exec's picked a good, but not great, Illinois team to play in the RB, when there where several possibly more deserving teams, (say Missouri for example), who would have been better opponents for the Pac-10 champs, USC. The Big Ten will NEVER give up, what it considers its "birth right" to the Rose Bowl. As a matter of fact, the B-10 and P-10 will literally WITHDRAW from the BCS membership before agreeing to any type of playoff in which they might not get their teams in the Rose Bowl every year.
The point is this, as I have said before, the chances of a true, college football playoff are all but 0%, IMHO, unless the other conferences, not named the Big-10 or PAC-10, create one WITHOUT those two conferences. And what do you really think the chances are that, that will happen?
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