Michigan had done what it had to do, as it had all season, and so had Nebraska. Each deserves to be called national champion, and so they are. Retiring Nebraska coach Tom Osborne rides into the sunset, and Michigan coach Lloyd Carr basks in his newfound celebrity. This is not such a terrible thing. Before you speak the word playoff , consider that forcing college football into a January Madness would come at a terrible price.
College football is the major team sport in America with the most meaningful regular season.
He drops the ball, and the Cornhuskers maybe get a lower seed. A single loss in the regular season would mean little. A tournament would put a period at the end of the sentence and make nearly as much money as Dubai, but it would slowly squeeze the life out of the fall. During its coverage of the Orange Bowl, CBS incessantly hyped March Madness, as if January and February do not exist in college basketball, which they in fact do not. Michigan against Nebraska on the Saturday before the Super Bowl would be a terrific show.