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Jim Delany: Big Ten's Lord Voldemort

Every sport needs a bad guy to keep the fans interested. Just ask Vince McMahon. Wait, don't. He can't hear you, he's on top of a 238-foot-high pile of $100 bills. So take my word for it. Sports are as much about who to root against as who to root for.

College football used to have a plethora of villains. When Steve Spurrier was at the height of his powers he had the two qualities most valued in a villain. He was arrogant and he was right. You never knew what he was going to say next, but you knew it was going to be a slam of one of his rivals. We won't even discuss some of his final scores.

Nowadays, however, everybody's just so doggone nice. (Okay, everybody outside the SEC.) There's one man, though, who might make a good hate sink for football fans. That's him in the picture.

The NFL Playoffs Demonstrate the Folly of a College Football Playoff

Last Sunday, the NFC Championship Game featured the Arizona Cardinals and the Philadelphia Eagles. Both teams barely played above .500 football in the regular season. One, Philadelphia, didn't even win its division finishing just 9-6-1. That same Eagles team had quarterback Donovan McNabb benched in the second half of a late-season game against a Baltimore team no longer in the playoffs. Its opponent, the Arizona Cardinals, suffered one of the worst beatings of the regular season 47-7 in its second-to-last game against a team that didn't even make the playoffs.

One of those teams was bound to be among the final two standing in the NFL's so-called championship. Yet people want this for college football? The BCS has all kinds of flaws that need to be worked on, but even the briefest examination of the NFL playoffs should point to why they aren't a legitimate solution for college football.

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