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I still think that IF you are going to play a frickin BCS NC game a full week after New years Day on january 8th THEN there is NO REASON to not have this as a "Plus 1" game.

When I am appointed NCAA Dictator I will put these into law:

1) All 4 Major Bowls will once again, be played on New Years Day. Can shove some of these other bowls like OutBack to New years Eve bowls and make New years Day a Major Bowl Day like it used to be. Can play the Citrus and Gator Bowls at noon or so since these are for the 3rd place teams in major conferences and these 2 games would be over before the big bowls later in the day.

2) Each year you would have TWO of the Big 4 bowls be a 4 team playoff. One year it would be ROSE and SUGAR then the next year it would be FIESTA and ORANGE so you would have an East and a West game as part of the playoffs with the winner of these games going on to play in 1 week for the BCS NC game. This would make the Big 4 bowls MEANINGFUL once again!!!! Right now they mean NOTHING at all except for the 2 teams in these bowls!!! I mean, how many watched the AL/Utah Sugar Bowl or whoever played in the Orange Bowl except the teams fans themselves?

3) Then you could put the BCS NC game ANYWHERE- kind of like the Super Bowl. You could play it in Domed Stadiums, Tampa, San Diego, or even the new Cowboys mega stadium.

Now there would still be people who bitched about having only 4 teams but USUALLY there is only around 4-5 teams that should be considered anyway. And IF you want to stick with only 1 extra game (and for only 2 teams at that) and you want to make the 4 major Bowls mean something again THEN this would work.

You might be right in a perfect world but there is too much history, tradition, and $$$$$ involved to not include the bowls. You are stating my point though- the 4 major bowls no longer mean ANYTHING to anyone outside fans of those teams AND they are not even played on New years Day anymore.

So play all 4 on New Years Day and make 2 of them be meaningful each year. This also makes the presidents happy since only 2 teams will pla ONE extra game- which is already played a full WEEK after new Years anyway.