It's because the Big Ten and the Pac-10 have the Rose Bowl, which is the best. It has aura that no other bowl has. Why would the Pac-10 and Big Ten voluntarily give that up? The only way I could see the Big Ten and Pac-10 actually agreeing to a plus one scenario is if the Rose Bowl decided to abandon the Pac-10 / Big Ten ties. Absent that, it won't happen.
***It’s because the Big Ten and the Pac-10 have the Rose Bowl, which is the best. It has aura that no other bowl has.***
This year it was the toilet bowl.
***Why would the Pac-10 and Big Ten voluntarily give that up? The only way I could see the Big Ten and Pac-10 actually agreeing to a plus one scenario is if the Rose Bowl decided to abandon the Pac-10 / Big Ten ties. Absent that, it won’t happen.***
Who says they have to give it up? First of all, when the Rose hosts 1 v. 2, they do give it up so there is some incentive. Secondly, there is nothing that requires tradition to give up its selection in a plus 1 format. But, when you play Ill. as USC in a plus 1 format, you kinda write yourself out of contention for a title game for the sake of your tradition.
I think the real reason is that the Pac-10 is weak and the Big-10 is weak. Thus, you won’t get many shots at a title.
“My opinion is that they realize that they are the weakest of the major conferences and wouldn’t get many shots at a title.”
Me thinks this post hit the nail on the head...why would the Big-10 Commissioner support a playoff system, or a plus-one when they can AGAIN get a free ride to the BIG game having played the weakest of all top ten teams?
As I predicted to you in October (and it came to pass), Ohio State played only TWO top twenty teams, losing to one of them at home.
We need a playoff system so that USC and Ohio State (and of course Notre Dame if they lose more than three games) will not be granted free rides to the big game when their schedules did not warrant it. There is a PAC-10 and Big-10 BCS and poll voter bias, and the last two years this bias has bitten them BIG TIME.
“It’s because the Big Ten and the Pac-10 have the Rose Bowl, which is the best. It has aura that no other bowl has.”
It has an “aura” to “big” 10 and Pac 10 people. The rest of the world could give a crap. It was that vaunted “tradition” that gave us the glorious spectacle of 90% of the country turning off the game at halftime due to a “big” 10 team not deserving to be there getting blown the hell out. Ditto for the Sugar bowl. Screw the fans wanting to see the best game (UGA vs USC). Who needs interesting stuff like that? We all want outdated tradition and “aura”...right?