Texas Tech’s Mike Leach said he struggled while filling out his final regular-season ballot for the USA Today coaches’ poll Sunday, which only reinforced his belief that major-college football needs a playoff. Other Big 12 coaches agreed.
“The fear would be if they just do some little thing like add one game; all that’s going to do is perpetuate the problem,” Leach said Monday during the Big 12 teleconference. “I think they need a big one, like 32 to 64 teams. Everybody says (a playoff) will never happen. But I think if it gets a certain amount of momentum, it will happen quickly.”
Texas coach Mack Brown said the present BCS system does not allow enough players to experience the joy of playing for a national championship.
“I really wish we would look at a system that would give more teams a more fair opportunity,” Brown said. “Some would say Oklahoma and Southern Cal should have an opportunity to play for the national championship this year. There are four or five every year.”
There was a dissenting vote. Kansas coach Mark Mangino remains against a playoff system.
“To have a system where everybody is happy, that’s probably unlikely,” Mangino said.
Buffs recruits: Colorado has received oral commitments from two four-star prospects: linebacker Lynn Katoa of Salt Lake City Cottonwood and tight end Ryan Deehan of Poway (Calif.) High School.
Katoa, 6-feet-2 and 220 pounds, is ranked by as the nation’s No. 2 inside linebacker prospect and considered LSU, Oklahoma and Texas. Deehan (6-4, 228) also visited Oregon and Arizona State.
Footnote.
Colorado is due to arrive in Shreveport, La., on Dec. 26 and get in four on-site workouts before the Dec. 30 Independence Bowl matchup with Alabama.
Tom Kensler: 303-954-1280 or tkensler@denverpost.com
