FOOTBALL Why can't college football have a Chanticleer of its own?

[SpaceRaider]

excerpt:

...What's been going on in Omaha at the College World Series the last two weeks has revealed a bug in the Playoff's coding, a flaw in the new postseason tapestry. College football excludes one of the best storylines in sport -- the triumph of the underdog. The new Saturday's America has left no room for the Butler Bulldogs, no room for Leicester City, none for Buster Douglas or Coastal Carolina, the upstart that plays Wednesday night with a chance to win a national title.....




Why can't college football have a Chanticleer of its own?

 

[SpaceRaider]

excerpt:

...What's been going on in Omaha at the College World Series the last two weeks has revealed a bug in the Playoff's coding, a flaw in the new postseason tapestry. College football excludes one of the best storylines in sport -- the triumph of the underdog. The new Saturday's America has left no room for the Butler Bulldogs, no room for Leicester City, none for Buster Douglas or Coastal Carolina, the upstart that plays Wednesday night with a chance to win a national title.....

It's not a bug or flaw, it's the feature of the design...

 

[Blueraider_Mike]

The only way we will ever get a chance is for FB to act like every other NCAA sport and have an open championship.

 

[BlueRaider95]

If the idiots who run college football ran college baseball CCU would have played Temple in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

 

[AustinLewis]

There have been opportunities in years past (IMO, Boise could have made a Cinderella run a few years back), but football is a MUCH different game than basketball/baseball.

MT fans (and probably coaches as well) have talked bout how hard it is to find 6'4+ 300 OL or 6'4 275 pound DE right out of high school. These kinds of players don't grow on trees and are typically swooped up by the P5 schools, leaving non-AQ schools with 6'4 270 OL that need a redshirt year (and then some) to get to the right size.

Beyond physical differences required to be successful, you have to have experience at QB, size/speed on the outside, a solid run game, and an OL that has the speed / power to move an OL with 2 NFL Day 1 picks. Defensively, you need a solid DL (typically with a game changing DE), a smart and athletic LB core, and a secondary that is physical and can limit the passing game. Still, having this doesn't guarentee you'll have the enough to win big and gain the attention of the powers-that-be.

Baseball and basketball don't have the reliance on size and can typically rely on a dominant player or two to make a run.

Just my impressions

 

[RaiderDawg78]

While I agree that a non - P5 school probably has no chance on the field, they deserve the chance to prove it. A system is broken if over half the teams in a division have no chance to play for a championship before the season starts.

We need to either split FBS football or have a system that fairly gives each team that is in FBS an opportunity (a playoff with all 10 conferences represented).

 

[AustinLewis]

While I agree that a non - P5 school probably has no chance on the field, they deserve the chance to prove it. A system is broken if over half the teams in a division have no chance to play for a championship before the season starts.

We need to either split FBS football or have a system that fairly gives each team that is in FBS an opportunity (a playoff with all 10 conferences represented).

Agreed.