If Missouri loses to Oklahoma and Va Tech loses in the ACC Championship game, the BCS is going to be in an even bigger mess. This year’s National Champion will the the worst champion, ever.
Lots of excitement this year with the top teams being taken out week after week...loved it. Unfortunately the BCS title game will be anti-climatic.
Some things to settle out in the fallowing years. I think that all conferences should have some type of title game. Both WVU & OSU do not have to fret over a title game loss....Missouri does. The SEC was the most exciting conference this year...bar none. LSU & UF probably puts the hammer down on both WVU & OSU. Unfortunately, they beat each other up. Makes for a great season, but screws the conference during the BCS.
I would like that very much. Perhaps if the current system yields a big enough mess, it will re-invigorate the (now dormant) movement to create a playoff system, with a real national-championship game.
Other NCAA sports have a playoff system, leading to a national-championship game. Men's baseball, women's softball, and both men's and women's basketball are some examples.
In fact, even NCAA football at its other levels has a playoff system. So the argument that a playoff system would extend the season unreasonably far out, thereby harming academic performance (or something) just doesn't hold up.
The elitists who tell us that we shouldn't desire a playoff system are simply addicted to the bowl receipts. They are afraid that a true playoff system might harm the bowls, thereby cutting into their annual largesse.
But they are not quite candid enough to just say that this is the sticking point.
I have long maintained that anyone wishing to see a true playoff system should boycott all bowl games--even bowl games involving one's own alma mater. To hope for a new system while doling out financial support to the existing system really does not make a great deal of sense to me.
“This year’s National Champion will the the worst champion, ever.”
I watched both games today, and West Virginia looks like a very fine National Champion to me. They’re going to beat either Missouri or Ohio State with ease.
I recall telling someone a couple years ago we will soon be crowing a national champion with 2 losses. It could possibly occur this year.
They are slowly getting to a playoff system. The BCS has broken up the old system where we would have two unbeatens locked into bowls away from each other unless one of them was a big independent like ND, PSU, FSU or from the unlocked Big East. And the heavy turnover among Conferences has made realignment no longer a big unthinkable idea. Plus, the ratings for the BCS game and the declining ratings for the other bowls helps to encourage a playoff.
With 120 Division 1A teams, ten conferences of twelve teams each with the two division format and a conference championship game would nicely set up a postseason with a sixteen team playoff (12 conference champs and four wild-cards). They could even use the bowls as hosts for the early round games. Lesser bowls not used would continue to host non-playoff teams as a consolation.
Any team that could win those four playoff games against other top 16 teams would be worthy champ. If an undefeated Tulane, Marshall, Boise State or Hawaii could do that, then I doubt that anyone would question their worthiness after running such a gauntlet. It would be like Villanova in basketball back in the 80’s (when they beat four of the top seven teams).
Yep, it would end up WV vs. OK in the BCS Championship Bowl.
IMO....anyway.
Ha!!!