I mean come on, this is a joke. I'm an FSU fan and realize the ACC in football has become known as the "Always Crappy Conference", and we get 2 BCS teams in, while the Big 12 gets only 1? Virginia Tech's resume is horrible in that they got blown out by the only ranked team they played all season....twice. This is a joke.
Kansas State v Boise should have been the Sugar Bowl. As it stands now, the Cotton Bowl with Kansas State and Arkansas seems more prestigious than the Sugar.
VT only beat my Blue Devils 14-10. We missed 2 field goals. VT has no business playing in a BCS bowl game.
Pro basketball, NCAA basketball, baseball, pro football—all have playoffs.
You’re right: The `BCS’ is a joke.
A couple of articles have mentioned that Virginia Tech has a larger fan base which travels.
More bad news.
Just learned `Madonna’ is gonna be shaking her wrinkled moneymaker Super Bowl half-time.
There’s a room full of chimpanzees somewhere making these decisions on Apple computers.
.....Each and every year.
It's all about money and it makes me ill.
Am sorry.
You are missing the entire point of the Sugar Bowl teams and $$$.
It’s not about the teams you mentioned, but about Michigan.
They are the money team hello!
Boise got hosed. I hope they hang 100 on ASU, not because I dislike the Sun Devils but because they’re ticked at how they got passed over by mediocre teams. Go Smurfs!
FRegards,
PrairieDawg
OK - VTech is a joke. They would be 4th or 5th best team in a top conference (SEC - easy to list. PAC-12 - Stanford Oregon, USC, Arizona State - hello?) But - they are just playing Michigan - Big 10 has been a weak sister for a decade.
The interesting matchups - OKState vs Stanford, and Oregon vs Wiconsin - the slow teams agains the fast teams. Would have been more “balanced” Stanford vs Wisconsin and Ok and Oregon.
Stanford has already played USC and Oregon - OKState speed won’t be a surprise. But - will oregon score 50 points against Wisconsin?
In other words, Alabama would have gone 1-1 against LSU, while losing the game it played at home, yet be crowned the winner of a tie. And LSU wins on every other measure:
LSU would have beaten the winner of the PAC 12 (Oregon) and the Big East (West Virginia), one Division champion (SEC East, Georgia) and the National Champion (Alabama). Alabama would have split games with the SEC Champion that's it.
So if Alabama wins? LSU's quality wins: One major conference division champion (Georgia), two major conference champions (PAC 12 and Big East), and the National Champion. Alabama's quality wins: One major conference champion (SEC).
LSU would have played Oregon and West Virginia (and some schmo) out of conference. Alabama would have played Penn State and given up 21 points to . . . Georgia Southern (at least they shut out North Texas).
LSU would have beaten Georgia, which is probably one of the ten best teams in the country right now. (Look at their nine-game winning streak and the defensive stats during that streak; look at the way they held LSU to no first downs in the first half.) This Georgia team would likely have beaten the Georgia team that opened the season by forty or more (teams sometimes strangely gel). Alabama never played Georgia.
LSU would have one additional win (a quality win in the SEC championship) and a higher winning percentage. Alabama would have one win and a lower winning percentage.
In fact, LSU would be superior to Alabama in every single respect except that Alabama would have won the last game. That's it. And on that single note, Alabama would be crowned the National Champion. That's why Alabama shouldn't be in the championship game. But it's too late now.
LSU should already be awarded the AP Poll; what else is there for it to prove?
And, BTW, I'm not an LSU fan.
Forget “occupy” (nor do I want to attach any legitimacy to that meme). Just ignore the BCS bowls. Don’t watch ‘em.
The system is broken, and has been from day 1. It’s never been about deciding a championship, but rather how to feather the nests of the “big 6” conferences (and how the ACC and Big East managed to get on that list has everything to do with money and nothing to do with merit).
This will be a “tainted” BCS title game with the inclusion of Alabama over Oklahoma State. After the drubbing they took in the ACC championship. Virginia Tech has no business being allowed to watch a BCS bowl, let alone play in one.
The only good that can come out of this mess is for the NCAA to step in and say, “the system doesn’t work, we need to fix it”. Of course, hoping the NCAA rides in to the rescue is not exactly an encouraging state of mind to be in...
Yet another fantasy anti-BCS playoff system that will never take place (too many games, not enough money, etc). 11 Conference Champs, 5 At-Large bids, seeded 1-16, using current BCS rankings. Projected scores are mine and are intended to enrage fanboys of every conference.
(1) LSU, SEC Champion 48
(16) Louisiana Tech, WAC Champion 6
(8) Wisconsin, Big Ten Champion 35
(9) Michigan, At-Large 28
(5) Oregon, Pac 12 Champion 42
(12) Houston, Conference USA Champion 17
(4) Stanford, At-Large 38
(13) West Virginia, Big East Champion 27
(3) Oklahoma State, Big XII Champion 41
(14) Arkansas St, Sun Belt Champion 10
(6) Boise St, At-Large 35
(11) TCU, Mountain West Champion 36
(7) Kansas State, At-Large 28
(10) Clemson, ACC Champion 21
(2) Alabama, At-Large 24
(15) N. Illinois, MAC Champion 0
(Outback Bowl) LSU 31, Wisconsin 17
(Rose Bowl) Oregon 53, Stanford 30
(Cotton Bowl) Oklahoma State 41, TCU 36
(Sugar Bowl) Alabama 17, Kansas State 10
(Orange Bowl) LSU 40, Oregon 27
(Fiesta Bowl) Oklahoma State 31, Alabama 14
Toss-up?
Kansas State placed second in the Big 12. The Cotton Bowl is the second place Big 12 finisher vs. the third or fourth finisher in the SEC. That happened to be Arkansas.
...and we get 2 BCS teams in, while the Big 12 gets only 1?
Don't get me started on how asinine the BCS is.