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Posted on 11/28/2005 3:52:48 PM PST by LisaMalia
The BCS is simply awful. A playoff is needed. They have it in Div. III, in Div. II, and in Div I-AA. Any excuse for not having one in Div. I-A is simply put, BCS without the C.
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Barring an upset of USC or Texas this weekend, the BCS will do what it intended to do (for the first time in several seasons) and that is put the best two football teams on the field to determine the champion.
Without the BCS, USC would be playing Penn State in the Rose Bowl and Texas would be playing in the Cotton Bowl (?). Assuming USC and Texas both win their bowl games, there would be no consensus #1.
Now, having said that, I'm a proponent of a limited 4-team playoff for college football. That would have avoided the Auburn snub of last year and the USC snub from the year before.
I would love the BCS formula to be used to get the 8 or 16 best teams out there for a post season tournament like the NCAA basketball tourney.
Limit the football seasons to 10 or 11 games, use the BCS to determine the best set of teams, and let them play it out. 2 or 4 teams really isn't enough. Honestly I think 8 would be perfect, but I think 16 would work as well.
With 8 teams, you could still go with the big 6 conference tie-ins and 2 at large bids. Or you could do a straight forumula-based field. I think it works out either way this year, but no big deal.
With 16 teams, you could have tie-ins with all 11 D-1A conferences with 5 at large bids. Might share the wealth a bit, and it gets the small guys involved too.
Who wouldn't want to see Fresno v. USC again? I do.
I went to a football game once.. That is I think I did. Is football the one where you throw a round object through a hoop?
Texas would be playing Alabama in the Cotton Bowl or LSU or Georgia in the Sugar Bowl under the old system.
I don't know about that.
There aren't any 4 loss teams anywhere near the top 16 of the BCS.
That's the kicker.
The 5 at-large bids need to be within the top 16 of the BCS.
Texas would be playing in the Orange Bowl, going by old Big 8 ties.
why was I thinking Sugar Bowl?
I seem to have Texas A&M playing Ohio State in early 1999 in the Sugar Bowl....
If Florida State wins the ACC Championship game, they'd be 8-4, and receive the BCS bid, in the current system and your proposed one, since conference champs receive an automatic bid.
Never mind, answered my own question....in 1999 the BCS was there dur Mike!!
I think they would be playing Virginia Tech in Orange Bowl, going by old Big 8 ties, not SWC ties.
Sure they would, but the BCS isn't going away. Wisconsin still doesn't have a gripe as they are the 3rd best team in their own conference and aren't in the BCS top 16 quite yet.
Actually, I'd like to see Ohio State go head to head with USC this year, though of course it won't happen. I think it might look like a replay of the "David vs. Goliath" scenario, when we beat Miami to win the NC.
you're right...
I got my years all screwed up and started pointing to a BCS year as a tie-in....
yeah but I think OHio STate is better this year than they were in 2002, but they aren't nearly as lucky sometimes :)
This isn't the best USC team either. That was last year. This year's team has a couple holes on defense that no one has been able to exploit yet.
If anyone has the defense to shut down USC, it might be Ohio State. But I thought Texas might have that defense too, and then A&M ran all over them.
College football: the only major college sport where one can be eliminated from title contention after the first week of the season.
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