lotta pac 10 teams do not have difficult, week-to-week schedules.
my solution, top teams in each conference (top 1 or 2) enter into a playoff system, the CCHA did it, the NCAA basketball did it, its time for football to do it too, after all college gridiron is basically a stepping stone for the NFL anyway.
Pac-10 walk away from the BCS? Hah. I hope they push forward with this plan just to call his bluff. Whatever “his” presidents want, I doubt they want to walk away from the millions and millions in revenue the system brings in.
Besides, what do the presidents care? USC would get a chance for double exposure - basically have the possibility of playing in two “bowls” every year. It wouldn’t affect any of the other Pac-10 teams at all.
Babies. If they leave and nobody else does they are only hurting themselves.
When are they officially going to start paying the players?
I think they might play this to return to a Big Ten(eleven)/Pac Ten champs Rose Bowl. The winner can still be end of the season “#1” since the BCS authoritarians can’t control all the polls.
Ok as a casual college football observer I might be getting the wrong idea from this so PLEASE correct me if I’m wrong, but what the hell is it about the plus-one playoff model has Hansen’s panties in such a twist? Even I can see the BCS is an absolute mess. SOMETHING needs to be done. As I see it (again correct me if I’m wrong here) as Hansen’s basically crying ‘Whaaaa....You do this, andandand...I’m just going to take my ball and go home...’
A story that gives us one and a half sentences of quotes to explain a position, isn’t a story that’s intended to inform anyone of anything.
You get one and a half sentences to explain why northern California and southern California shouldn’t split into two different states.
We’ll post that sentence and a half on an internet forum and see what happens.
ROFLOL
It’s all about $$$$$$$$. And who can withstand the competition.
Bon Voyage
I could see this being played out two ways:
1) Scrap the BCS altogether and return the four major bowls to their conference affiliations:
Rose: Pac 10 vs Big 11
Orange: A.C.C. vs Big East
Sugar: S.E.C. vs wild card
Fiesta: Big XII vs wild card
The Sugar and the Fiesta committees would choose the two wild cards. After the bowls have finished, take the consensus first and second teams from the human polls and have your ‘plus one’ for the National Championship.
2) Skip the ‘plus one’ format and go straight to a playoff that incorporates at least three of the major bowls. My favorite plan is to require the playoff to include *only* conference champions (plus Notre Dame if qualified) ranked by the BCS standings. The top 8 conference champs - regardless of which conference - make the playoffs. The first round would be at the higher seed’s home field while the semi-finals and finals would be attached to the major bowls.
Had this formula been used in 2006, the field would have been:
8) 14th-ranked Wake Forest at 1) 1st-ranked Ohio State
7) 11th-ranked Notre Dame at 2) 2nd-ranked Florida
6) 10th-ranked Oklahoma at 3) 5th-ranked USC
5) 8th-ranked Boise St. at 4) 6th-ranked Louisville
Michigan (3rd), LSU (4th), Wisconsin (7th), Auburn (9th), Arkansas (12th) and West Virginia (13th) are passed over because they did not win their conference title - making winning the conference a necessary step towards winning it all.
Notre Dame is the exception. Not belonging to a conference, they would only need to finish higher ranked than the next highest conference champ would have been (in this case, 20th-ranked BYU).
The good news for this format is that there is no “second team” from any conference so the politicking can be minimized. Also, at least one mid-major conference will always be represented and sometimes as many as three. There are no automatic bids so if a conference (say, the Big East) has a bad year, another conference could take their place.
The first round games could be held two weeks before New Years, the second round around New Years and the final game two weeks after New Years, likely the same weekend as the NFL conference championship games.