Posted on 12/05/2006 7:33:22 AM PST by sean327
This year’s college football bowl pairings were released Sunday, and the last-place teams from the biggest conferences will be crying all the way to the bank. The top teams from the small conferences will be crying poverty.
In NCAA Division I football, profits are higher for doormats from the six "major" conferences--Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and Southeastern--than for champions from the five smaller conferences.
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Let the fur fly boys. I love to stir the pot this time of year. This should make for some great arguments.
Then of course we'd have the possibility of a team winning the national championship without winning their conference. Although that scenario doesn't seem to bother anyone when it comes to basketball.
How else could it be done? A true playoff has to include ALL 11 CONFERENCES. The BCS system is a crock, it doesn't give us a true Champion, it gives us a beauty contest winner.
In basketball that probably happens more times than not. Nobody seemed to like the idea that the best two teams in college football just may be from the same conference.
For a couple of reasons:
1) The mid-level teams from a major conference are still better, in general, than top teams from weak conferences, their records are a result from having played much tougher opponents. (And no "doormats" qualify for bowl bids anyway.)
2) No one cares about the Boise States of the world. No one really wants to watch them, and how are you going to attract advertising and sponsorship $$$ for teams no one wants to watch?
You're preaching to the converted. It'd be nice someday to see a team handed a trophy that reads "NCAA DIVISION I FOOTBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS".
Nor does anyone have a problem when a non division winner wins the Super Bowl or the World Series.
The NFL has champs that are wildcards. MLB has champs that are wildcards. And the NHL...don't get me started.
Beat me by a few seconds.
they would watch them if they did it by playoff's.
The line that "Michigan had their chance" really was effective. That flipped more votes from Michigan to USC then to Florida than anything else. The only positive thing I see from the voting is that when OSU slaughters Florida, it will settle things. But the #1 and #2 team are not playing for the championship like the BCS intended. The rematch would have been a much better game. Although the USC-Michigan game should be good.
It doesn't bother the NASCAR Chase for the Championship either, where the winner doesn't have to win any of the races.
That is just odd...
Well the NHL and NBA have killed themselves by making their regular seasons almost irrelevant.
Agreed. I don't think many of the voters actually felt Florida was a better team than Michigan. That and the screams from the SEC would have been deafening.
Ohio State vs Michigan would have created a situation where Ohio State would have to win two out of two against Michigan while Michigan would only need to win one out of two for the national championship....essentially punishing Ohio state for winning the conference game.
We need a playoff for the championship!!!!!!!!!
Heck even before the chase was initiated you didn't need to win any either.
OSU and Michigan are going to get beaten badly because they haven't played a game for at least two weeks longer than their opponents. They get beat in the bowl games every year because of this and will continue to get beat every year. The NCAA National Champions are The Buckeyes and Michigan is #2. The bowl games are so far removed from the regular season, they are meaningless, other than bringing in more money to the system.
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