If we are ever going to have a playoff then the major conferences absolutely need to have a championship game. If its some kind of NCAA rule that you can't have a championship game if you don't have 12 teams then either you change the rule or the Big 10 (11) and the Pac 10 play each other on the 1st of Dec. to determine their representative in the playoffs. The playoffs run through Dec. and on New Years Day you play 4 Bowl games to determine 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th place. Four Bowl games that actually have some meaning.
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