{"id":157,"date":"2008-12-01T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-wests.net\/rick\/2008\/12\/01\/ot-college-football-playoffs-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T19:25:09","slug":"ot-college-football-playoffs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/2008\/12\/01\/ot-college-football-playoffs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"[OT] College football playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a week ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-wests.net\/rick\/2008\/11\/22\/ot-college-football-playoffs\/\" title=\"College playoffs post\" target=\"_blank\">I proposed a 16-team playoff<\/a> system for college football, just for argument&#8217;s sake. It was fun today to read Peter Schrager of Fox Sports arguing for <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/cfb\/story\/8874360\/Pondering-a-playoff-amid-another-BCS-controversy\" title=\"Schrager on playoffs\" target=\"_blank\">exactly the same thing<\/a>. I believe this would be a win-win for nearly everyone, including mid-majors, BCS schools, and TV channels. He goes a step further to play out a hypothetical scenario, showing how awesome the matchups would be and declaring &#8220;sensory overload&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Why can everyone see that this is the best option for college football except the NCAA itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a week ago, I proposed a 16-team playoff system for college football, just for argument&#8217;s sake. It was fun today to read Peter Schrager of Fox Sports arguing for exactly the same thing. I believe this would be a win-win for nearly everyone, including mid-majors, BCS schools, and TV channels. He goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}