[Man50D]

Here's the dirty little secret the NCAA won't discuss: Under the current system, of the 112 Division 1-A college teams

You are preaching to the choir about the BCS sham but you need to do a little research before writing. It's no secret there are 119 division 1-A teams. Also The NCAA is phasing out the terms Divisions I-A and I-AA that applied to football. I-A is now the Football Bowl Subdivision, while I-AA is the Football Championship Subdivision.

[L.N. Smithee]

Here's what else I have to say about this. Enjoy, or not.

[Chi-townChief]

Time to get rid of the BCS and go back to ending the season on New Years's Day.

[DugwayDuke]

bump for later.

[Hatteras]

"One of the mysteriously selected Harris Poll voters, former Washington State coach Jim Walden, actually voted the Gators #1 over Ohio State..."

Can you believe that?! He ACTUALLY thought the Gators were BETTER than the Buckeyes?!!! How ridiculous is THAT!!! Heh, heh, heh...

looser.

[Defendingliberty]

1 Forget Utopia
2 Unlike basketball where a Larry Bird can take an carry an Indiana State to the championship game; you need a lot of top athletes to make a powerful football team. Boise State would be 6-6,8-4 or 3-9 in the SEC.
3 It is all about money
3a Teams that put fans in the seats and push TV ratings go to bowls.
4 For my final example...I'm sure the Wake Forest vs Louisville was the lowest rated of the 5 BCS games...this game is as close to your Utopian dream you will ever see....I'll bet you didn't watch it...

[Arkinsaw]

The rant is pretty good except for:

Oops. USC lost outright. And Michigan didn’t even play, but some voters in the poll decided that Florida, which won the SEC title game, somehow became better than the Wolverines, who only lost to the reigning #1, overnight. Florida poll-vaulted all the way to #2 despite being bogged down at #4 in all three determining factors.

The fact that Florida proved this part way wrong on the field. Probably ought to yank that part out of there.

[Phlap]

Can you say gambling? I can. That is what we are talking about. Not student athletes and national champions.

[Hatteras]

"Who knows, maybe if there was a legitimate tournament, they would have defeated Boise State to prove they were the best team. But they didn’t, and we'll never know, just like they don't want us to know --"

Let me preface this by saying that I am not a Florida Gators fan but I did pull for them over the Mighty undefeated Ohio State Buckeyes. (What can I say? I'm an underdog kinda guy...)

I'm all for a playoff system. Lord knows they had plenty of time between the end of the regular season and last night, but this guy is a whiner.

First off, for the past two or three months we have been hearing that a BCS #2 position will determine who gets slaughtered by the mighty Buckeyes. Buckeyes this, Buckeyes that, blah, blah, blah... Now, the Gators come in and make the mighty Buckeyes look like a bunch of school girls and hand them their @$$e$ and now we hear, "Well, the Gators are okay, but they didn't have to play Boise State!"

Give me a frickin' break...

A playoff system would be much better than the current BCS crap but if I were king? We're going back to five major (sponsorless) bowls, Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta (sorry Atlanta), all played between New Years eve and New Years day and absolutely, let me repeat myself here so we all understand, ABSOLUTELY!...... no more Rock'em Sock'em Robot commercials!

As a matter of fact, since I will be king, there will be a new law. A business can not repeat a commercial more than twice in one week. Man law.

[Defendingliberty]

Just found this...
All three games (the Rose Bowl remains on ABC) that aired on Fox are down from the games in last season's comparable time slots, and the Louisville-Wake Forest game in the Orange Bowl posted the lowest number ever for a BCS game at 7.0.

The previous low was 7.4 for the Utah-Pitt Fiesta Bowl after the 2004 season.


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4447602.html

[Tanniker Smith]

Frankly, I don't care about the "championship", and I think that there are so many "bowl" games now that it's ridiculous. And the names of some of them ... most of them don't even have names, just sponsors. Now if you're in the "Blockbuster" Bowl, at least that sounds exciting. On the other hand, if you're in the "socks.com Bowl", well, not so much.

[Hatteras]

"On the other hand, what about the guys at schools like Appalachian State, who won the Division 1-AA title ON THE FIELD? Some of them might make the cut at a pro camp..."

Kevin Richardson. Remember the name...

[PetroniDE]

Here is a solution to this mess.

1) Buy a trophy.
2) Declare Boise St. 2007 Football Bowl Subdivision National Champions.

Here is some logic for you.

Florida lost to Auburn
Auburn lost to Arkansas
Arkansas lost to USC
USC lost to Oregon State
Oregon State lost to Boise State

Who did Boise State lose to this season? NOBODY !!

Save the argument about strength of schedule and "didn't play nobody". How many SEC teams play non-conference road games? Think any SEC teams would play Boise State home and home?

[randita]

Football fans can gripe all they want, but what will have more sway are the advertisers who spent a ton of money buying second half spots that nobody watched, because it was such a lopsided game, people switched the channel or went to bed (I chose the latter--the boring nature of the game coupled with a martini did me in).

[Phantom Lord]

Here is the biggest problem. Far to many people care far too much about how a sports team does. A win or loss by your favorite team has ZERO actual impact on your life.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Loads of nonsense. Why is the Boise State any more worthy of recognition than Grand Valley State which was also undefeated?

There is no real doubt among football fans that Florida is the best team in the country.
UF
USC
OSU
WIS
LSU
AUBURN
ARK
would all clean Boise State's clock. Particularly the SEC schools.

[GOP_Raider]

Look, my team (The University of Utah) played in the Fiesta Bowl against a very bad, very unworthy Pitt team in 2004. If they held Boise State at arms length this year--and I don't disagree--then we were held at several arms lengths in '04.

If you ask me, this wouldn't be an issue if BYU hadn't been awareded a national title in 1984 based on little more than being lucky enough to be the only undefeated team in the country that year.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BUMP for a later read.

[PRND21]

The article goes on to say the Big Ten and Pac-10 schools' presidents are against a playoff because it might permanently do away with their traditional places in the Rose Bowl.

The Rose Bowl is the only non-Fox BCS bowl and has a HUGE contract with ABC til 2014.
Nothing will happen playoff wise until 2015.

[pilipo]

A playoff system will happen. It is not a question of if, but of when.

I am not an advocate of a playoff system. My reasons are irrelevant.

The playoff system will come to be as a result of the constant one-way dialogue coming from the electronic and print mediums. There is no substantive rebuttle permitted. You have a high percentage of loudmouth sports personalities constantly pounding the theme at every possible opportunity. They utilize nothing less than emotion to "legitimize" their argument. The result is that young (very young) people are being indoctrinated to the notion. At some point that growing voice, albeit an indoctrinated one, will prevail. And they will have money.

Money is a simple focal point. Nonetheless, add it to the mix and then follow the money (young $ spends like old $).