Posted on 12/02/2007 6:06:55 PM PST by GOP_Raider
Do you really think that the folks in La. want to go to Columbus in January?
Thank you Pitt for exposing WVA before they made a shambles of the national championship.
BCS put C in BS. Missouri get’s the shaft.
I watched them win the NT in 1984 Holiday Bowl! Michigan invited me down.
That was a good year, went to see Washington/Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl too.
“Yes, and 7 of 11 Big Ten teams have Bowl games.”
8 of 11. Only Minnesota wasn’t bowl eligible.
2007-08 College Football Bowl ScheduleBowl Game Date/Time Site Matchup Network
Motor City Dec. 26
7:30 p.m. Detroit, Mich. Purdue vs. Central Michigan ESPN
Champs Sports
Boston College vs. Michigan State Orlando, Fla. Dec. 28, 5 p.m. ESPN HD
Alamo Dec. 29
8 p.m. San Antonio, Texas Penn State vs. Texas A&M ESPN
Insight Dec. 31
TBA Tempe, Ariz. Indiana vs. Oklahoma State NFL
Outback Jan. 1
11 a.m. Tampa, Fla. Wisconsin vs. Tennessee ESPN
Capital One Jan. 1
1 p.m. Orlando, Fla. Michigan vs. Florida ABC
Rose presented by Citi Jan. 1
4:30 p.m. Pasadena, Calif. USC vs. Illinois ABC
BCS National Championship Jan. 7
8 p.m. New Orleans, La. Ohio State vs. LSU FOX
If UW could have ran the table that year I’d never have to hear from BYU fans about their National Championship. It really strikes a nerve. :)
“My point was, they (Hawaii) didn’t really deserve that bowl game, right?”
You’re the same guy who last year was telling everybody how Ohio State and Michigan were the top two teams in the country and should play for the national title. And they both laid their annual bowl game egg once they finally got out of that mediocre conference and actually played somebody. So lay off Hawaii, they would probably kick Michigan’s ass the same way USC did last year and the way everyone else seems to do every year in the bowl games.
Did I ever say anything that remotely implied I did? I want neutral sites.
Well, yes, but that’s the point. Georgia is in a lose-lose situation. If they win big, then everyone will say, “Oh, that is just what is expected of them.” But if they lose, then they really look bad.
As a Sooner fan, I still get ill over the Boise St. game. Ugh.
Why don’t you go satilite dish, then you can get all the sports you want.
Not suprising, the sports writers are journalists, and the majority are Dems.
No dishes so says the lease.
I had satellite for the 5 plus years I lived in South America.
Yea Chavez got his butt whipped by democracy.
Not suprising, typical condo lease.
Chavez has been warned not to mess with his own citizens!
Yeah, 1964.
You missed the sarcasm tag.
“And the #1 Reason I keep hearing for not having a true playoff for the national championship is that it would make the season last too long.”
It appears they’ll always find “reasons” for no playoffs. I’m pretty confident that the real reason, though, is that the weaker teams know they’d never make the finals; so they fight going to playoffs every year.
And, BTW, I also think the real reason that Georgia isn’t in the Rose Bowl is because they can’t upstage the championship game. The “tradition” reason is baloney.
There is one and only one reason for not having a playoff. That reason is the NCAA would control the playoff which would be a disaster.
The major football powers fought to long and too hard to wrest control of the TV schedule (and money) from the NCAA to give that up now.
Only about 20 years ago, the NCAA controlled, in the interest of balance and fairness, what teams played on TV. The NCAA decreed that no team could appear on TV more than twice a season. This allowed more teams to be on TV and resulted in very poor TV schedules. We had a lot of really bad teams playing really bad teams in really bad games that no one cared about. The NCAA also took half the TV revenues for itself and redistribution to teams that didn’t get to play on TV. The smaller schools loved this systems since it gave them a cut of the TV money.
OU sued the NCAA on the basis that it’s TV rights were it’s rights and not the NCAA’s. The USSC upheld OU. This had three effects. One, this meant that the networks could schedule any team any time they wanted. Two, a lot more money for the big schools. Three, the NCAA manufactured a recruiting scandal and slapped OU on probation for two years.
The current BCS is managed outside the NCAA. Until you can figure out a way to keep the NCAA out of the playoffs, the playoffs will not happen. You must also figure out how to keep all the smaller schools from voting on the playoff and revenue. Otherwise, like good socialists, they will vote themselves a slice.
Quite frankly, everyone who spends time manufacturing various playoff brackets showing how easy it is are wasting their time. Everyone who spends time showing how to schedule the playoffs is wasting their time. Everyone who spends time ‘integrating’ their playoff with the bowl system is wasting their time. Those aren’t the issues.
The issue is that a NCAA playoff would be controlled by the NCAA and the major football powers will not let that happen since they know how the NCAA will screw them over.
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