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There are WAYYYYYY too many bowl games. Teams that go 6-6 should NOT be in bowl games.
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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That would not be fair to Michigan if that system was in effect now.
A championship is the championship. Did Pittsburg have to defeat the Colts twice last year in the playoffs to advance? OK, bad example, with that horrible interception call, I guess they kind of did.
On the positive side, a 16 team play-off would better determine a national champ and bring increased revenues from viewership. On the negative side, it would require up to three additional games played beyond regular season - bowl game now. Injuries and time away from classes/study (as if that matters) would increase.
The 11 conference winners would be:
The at-large teams would be:<>
Looking in from the outside would be Arkansas (12), West Virginia (13), and Rutgers (16).
Assuming playoff seeding by current BCS ranks, the first round matchups would be:
So, 2... maybe 3... good games in the first round. We'll assume for the sake of argument that the higher seeds win across the board, except for Auburn. Round 2:
Not a bad set of matchups... perhaps the top-8 should have just been in the playoff to begin with rather than the yawner of a first round we saw for the most part. Also, with two Big-10 vs. SEC matchups, we'd get a chance to see which conference was really better. Florida would have to go through three straight Big 10 teams to win the whole thing...
LOL, why not let Division II schools in. Under that system, Middle Tennessee State is 7-5 and a CONFERENCE CHAMP! Those Conference Champ Blue Raiders lost to Oaklahoma by 59-0! Your Conference Champ only rule would eliminate 5 of the top 10 teams in the country.
Top 8 is the best we could hope for. Except they would probably limit it to two schools from the same conference like they do now, so Wisconsin is screwed. Maybe the Badgers would finally be convinced to schedule one decent outside conference game.
Unfortunately money is the root of the problem. Professional sports has prostituted itself to the point that they have become cheap whores. Get as many teams into the playoff race as possible .... the sucker fans will keep shelling out their money. Regular seasons are nothing more than an extension of spring training/exhibition seasons.
The bowl games stand in the way of a national playoff system but we still watch them.
Seeing the way UCLA handled USC, I'd predict the Rose Bowl will be over very early.
The Big 10 won both it's BCS bowl games last year, plus the biggest non BCS bowl game when Wisconsin beat Auburn in the Capitol One Bowl. The Big 10 lost all the minor bowls which were played with a much shorter rest period. Your layoff theory was 0-7 last year.
"On the positive side, a 16 team play-off would better determine a national champ and bring increased revenues from viewership. On the negative side, it would require up to three additional games played beyond regular season - bowl game now. Injuries and time away from classes/study (as if that matters) would increase."
The negative side of the argument doesn't fly, the NCAA could implement a 10 game regular season, and hold the playoff during the tradition Bowl time. A 10 game season would give the 2 teams that play in the championship 13 games. They play 13 games now if they go to a bowl. If the playoff is scheduled during the traditional bowl weeks no class will be missed, the kids will be on winter break.
But that would offer a bigger negative for all the schools; less games = less revenue. What do they play now? 12? That would be two less games for all schools.
Michigan like UCLA has a very good pass rush. USC has very dangerous recievers, but yeah, if Michigan can stop the USC passing attack with a good pash rush, USC is probably in for a long day.
Hockey is the worst offender with the NBA coming in a close second. The NFL isn't OK (but some 9-7 teams do sneak in) and you can't really complain about MLB.
The problem is the 32 Bowl games bring in a lot of money. The BCS championship hasn't killed the other Bowls, but it has cheapened them just a bit. Really, both Michigan and USC are disappointed going to 'only' the Rose Bowl. I think they fear a playoff system will cheapen the other bowls more.
What about the year before?
Would that be the maybe 2% of Div 1 football players that actually attend classes, or am I over estimating. ;~))
In 2004-2005 Rose Bowl, Vince Young lead Texas in a comeback against Michigan and won 38-37. Probably a case of the better team winning. But Iowa did defeat LSU in the Capitol One Bowl. Wisconsin beat Georgia in the Outback Bowl. Minnisota beat Alabama in the Music City Bowl. And the Buckeyes manhandled Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl. Purdue lost to Arizona State in the Sun Bowl. The Big Ten has done fairly well lately in Bowl games, especially the top of the conference. The Big Ten does not have the depth of the SEC.
Why not have separate National Championships for the different divisions? They do it in High School..
I don't know.
There isn't a designation between D-1A and D-1AA anymore.
I don't think they could do it and beyond that I don't think the little guys would want to skip the paydays they get by going to Ohio State or Michigan to get their teeth kicked in.
You are probably right, it just seems to me that on the State level, teams are classified by school enrollment. I understand how a smaller school can compete in Basketball, but football requires a much larger pool of talent, or at some schools, criminals. ;^)
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