Yeah, I never thought it would happen either.  But Brian at Mgoblog said something intelligent.  Well-written.  Human, even.  And I agreed with it.   Take it in, accept it, believe that it’s possible even t hough Michigan (sucks!) sucks.  But there it is.

Brian was shooting down all the arguments against a playoff system one by one, and one of the arguments against the playoff is that it ruins watching college football week in and week out.  I always thought this was moronic, for many reasons, and Brian actually touched on a few of them without sounding like an idiot.  For that, he gets a pat on the head and a ‘keep it up kid’ from HLS.   Substitute “Michigan (sucks!)” for “Notre Dame” in the following paragraph and I’d stand by it, no doubt: 

If the only reason you watch college football is because of the incredibly minute chance Oregon State-Cincinnati has any impact whatsoever on the national title race, I don’t know what to tell you. I watch college football because in the stands 80 to 100 thousand people live and die on every play, because I hate Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC, and most of the SEC, because it is a brief three-month burst of bands and silly songs and real, honest-to-God traditions and stadiums named after states or dead men and punch-you-in-the-eye rivalries in a sea of sports chintz.

The reason so many of us watch so much college football is that, as mentioned, there is hardly any of it and it is all great.

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