This is the biggest fraud in modern sports. Each conference has up and down seasons, I don’t think the ACC or Big Ten have a legitimate top 10 team this year. Boise State a year ago, and Utah in the Fiesta 3-4 years back were playing as well as anyone in the country. These small conference schools continuing to pay into a system that doesn’t represent them reminds me quite a bit of US taxpayers.
The “plus one” is probably the closest we’ll get to a playoff.
Seeding 4 teams in 2 bowls that rotate among the big 5 (if the Cotton becomes a big bowl again in Jerryworld)
This year might Have Bama/UF winner, Texas, Cincy, TCU....or the UF/Bama loser depending on how Cincy/TCU finish.
Tough for Bama or UF to be forced to play the other team again.
Yes, but what’s the alternative? To ignore the BCS and be left out altogether?
>> Boise State a year ago, and Utah in the Fiesta 3-4 years back were playing as well as anyone in the country. <<
Not to disagree, but the point is that we’ll never know. And anyone who thinks that any of these bowl games determines that team A is better than team B is fooling themselves. But it’s the contest that matters. That’s why I’m cool with going back to the days of the Rose Bowl, etc. At least then we didn’t delude ourselves into thinking we had actually determined the best team in the country. We all just watched a good game. Arguing whether an undefeated Notre Dame was better than undefeated Rose Bowl winner was a matter of opinion and sport, not of ‘fairness’ and ‘inclusion.’