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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 1766528" data-attributes="member: 17551">I'm an Illinois fan, and I haven't had much to chear about since 2001.  (That Sugar Bowl seems so long ago, now.)  However, college football is probably my favorite sport.Random thought 3 weeks into the season:Purdue looks like the clear favorite in the Big(11)Ten.  But I gotta believe that Mich or Oh. St. (or both) will make a run as well.  Although neither have really impressed me thus far.My poor Illini are going to have to win 4 in the B10 to get back to a bowl for the first time since the 2001 Sugar Bowl - meaning, assuming we actually beat NW, MSU and Indiana (no sure thing by any means), we'll have to beat Iowa, Purdue or Michigan at home, or Wiscy or Minny on the road.  Considering we barely got by Western Michigan at home this weekend and got killed by UCLA at home the previous week, I'm not going to hold my breath.  The talent level on defense just insn't there.I have a hard time naming the best conference in the country this year, as no one really stood out in non-conference play.  The Big12, in particular looked lackluster compared to previous years.  This might be the year a non-BCS school finally gets to one of the big four bowls - Fresno St./Boise St. winner and Utuah will both be in real nice shape.What happened to the MAC?The arguments against playoffs are monetary and traditional.  The people who run college football are conservative to their core, and they will not change their minds regarding a playoff until someone shows them that they will make money hands over fists more than they were making under the bowl system.  That said, it will eventually happen; more likely 20 years than 2, but eventually Disney/ABC/ESPN will just put too much dinero on the table for the conferences and presidents to continue to say "no".  When it finally happens, college football will be changed, IMO, for the better.  When players at great academic institutions like M.I.T. and William & Mary and Cal-Davis can have their football players play in playoffs and not suffer academically, certain semi-pro football programs that happen to be attached to vocational learning institutions (you know who you are) can surely have their "student"-athletes eek by, and not see their academic performance diminish (if such were even possible).R.A.</blockquote>

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