Posted on 06/26/2012 5:12:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
College football will finally have a playoff. Come 2014, the BCS is dead.
A committee of university presidents on Tuesday approved a plan for a four-team playoff put forward by commissioners of the major football conferences.
''It goes just the right amount,'' he said.
The move completes a six-month process for the commissioners, who have been working on a new way to determine a major college football champion after years of griping from fans.
''There were differences of views,'' Steger said. ''I think it would be a serious mistake to assume it was a rubber stamp.''
Instead of simply matching the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 teams in a championship game after the regular season, the way the Bowl Championship Series has done since 1998, the new format will create a pair of national semifinals.
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A few predictions...
1. This is one of many ongoing small steps toward the elimination of the NCAA as we know it and the creation of an elite “superpowers” conference.
2. The playoff will expand to 8 or 16 teams within a relatively short period of time. It will not stop at 4 teams. As Mike Leach said, there will be a bunch of money generated by this extravaganza, and more money is to be made by adding teams.
3. You will see the end of the amateur college athlete, at least in football. They will start to be paid outright.
I don’t think this really “fixes” anything at all. Now, instead of having endless debates about one or both teams facing off in the BCS title game, we’ll have endless debates about whether a #5 or #6 team should have been ranked #4 and included in the “national semifinals.”
The money-driven degenerates will have us suffering through college football until February by the end of the decade. What a f*ing obscenity.
IDK who "Mike Leach" is but his grasp of the obvious is a stranglehold. This whole issue is driven by money, and mostly dirty money at that. This is the quantum leap of college ball into gambling and institutional corruption. No true sports fan can watch this without feeeling nauseous.
I'm only an "SEC fan" because of my sentimental attachment to some great Georgia teams back in the early 1980s, but there's no disputing the fact that the SEC has completely dominated the national title scene since the BCS was established. It seems like the only time a non-SEC team wins the national title is when the championship game matches two non-SEC teams.
Oddly enough, the SEC didn't have quite so many national champions from the 1980s through the mid-1990s when the process of selecting national champions actually favored independent teams that weren't locked into specific bowl games as conference champions. That's why Penn State, Miami and Notre Dame won a disproportionate number of national titles in that brief stretch.
This is great! Now we’ll get to see 3 more SEC games on TV each year!
I posted that too quickly. It’ll only be two more SEC games each year.
Them’s fighting’ words. I think I want to hit you. Come here, boy.
” Oddly enough,the SEC didn’t have quite so many national champions from the 1980s through the mid-1990s when the process of selecting national champions actually favored independent teams that weren’t locked into specific bowl games as conference champions. That’s why Penn State,Miami and Notre Dame won a disproportionate number of national titles in that brief stretch”
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That’s basically what the NBA does.
I can see it now.. Coming to a sports page/sport stalker near any large college town.
“this system is bogus because it totally leaves us out man.. it sucks because it makes the regular season useless man... it favors the teams from the east coast.. it favors team that have a history of giving money to the NCAA.. It’s all a conspiracy for ratings man.. It’s all about the money..”
If anyone in their right mind thinks this will even begin to solve the bitching and moaning, they’re in for a surprise.
Coach Leach was head coach for the Red Raiders in Lubuck , Texas . He was loved by the team and fans . Craig James ( ESPN ) got him fired . He’s now coaching for Washington . His autobiography is called “ Swing your Sword “ . Very cool guy .
Here is my idea, taken from English soccer:
You have x number of divisions of 13 teams each, the Top 13 comprise the “Premier Division”, each team plays 12 games within their division.....at the end of the season, the bottom 3 teams get relegated to the next lower division, and the top 3 teams in each division get promoted to the next level. The winner of the “Premier Division”, the team with the best record, is declared the “National Champion”.
Imagine a Premier Division consisting of:
Alabama
LSU
Oregon
USC
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Michigan
Ohio State
Texas
Boise State
Arkansas
Stanford
Nebraska
Each week, teams from these elite programs play each other, no creampuffs.
For example, let's suppose Alabama finished a regular season as SEC champion and they were ranked #1 in the country. Let's also suppose that Penn State was ranked #2 and Nebraska #3. As SEC champion, Alabama would play in the Sugar Bowl. As Big Eight champion, Nebraska would play in the Orange Bowl. Penn State, as an independent team with no obligation to play in a bowl as a conference champion, would simply accept the invitation from the Sugar Bowl for the "open" spot against the SEC champion -- which meant they'd be playing for the national title against the #1 team.
Nebraska, meanwhile, would go into the Orange Bowl in the #3 spot knowing full well that they'd never win the national title even if they beat a strong opponent by 40 points.
If the #1 and #3 teams were reversed and Nebraska was #1 going into the Orange Bowl, then Penn State would accept the Orange Bowl bid instead of a Sugar Bowl bid and Alabama would be out of luck.
This is why you had those independents like Penn State, Miami and Notre Dame playing in so many bowl games that ended up deciding national titles back then. As independents they were always in a position where they could get the most favorable matchup instead of being automatically assigned to a bowl as a conference champion.
Notice how Penn State stopped playing in national title games once they joined the Big Ten. Big Ten and PAC-10 teams always had the most difficult time winning national titles back then because the Rose Bowl was the one major bowl where BOTH teams were determined by conference titles. So if Ohio State was ranked #2 and was the Big Ten champion, they'd NEVER have an opportunity to play against a #1 Alabama or Nebraska and might even be forced to play a team that wasn't in the Top 10 but happened to be good enough to win the PAC-10 championship.
A team that can only get past the 50 yard line (and not score) only once in a game does not deserve the Title.
Roll Tide (2011) War Eagle (2012)
My post was "As an LSU fan... Geaux NCAA!". Pretty simple I was just saying I favor a playoff. The 2011 Rankings had LSU #1 and Alabama #2, I think they would have met in the championship under this new system too.
"Unless you hope another team could have bested Bama thereby not having to face the 2011 NCAA Champions for the BCS National Championship."
I was not in favor of LSU having to beat a team they had already beaten in Alabama for the championship. Not so much for fear of losing, but because it was pretty much a no win propositon for LSU. If LSU had won the rematch, non-LSU/Alabama fans would have said; "so what LSU beat Alabama twice, proves nothing". As it was, LSU was the better team one day, Alabama was the second day... proves nothing.
BTW, Alabama is not the 2011 NCAA Champion... You see there is no NCAA Championship yet. There was a BCS Champion. This new plan will create a NCAA Major College Football Champion for the first time ever.
One more thing, there was a 2012 SEC Championship...what would be LSU's.
"A team that can only get past the 50 yard line (and not score) only once in a game does not deserve the Title."
The team with the most points on the scoreboad wins... see, it's not a game of deserving it is a game of scores.
Roll Tide (2011) War Eagle (2012)
Tide's 2012 BCS Bowl is for the 2011 season. Whats the War Eagle (2012) about?
Sorry, my error on the year.
When #3 complains that they were shut out of a system that only includes #1 and #2, many people would say they have a legitimate point.
When #5 complains about being left out of a system of #1-#4, fewer will agree.
When #9 complains about being left out of a #1-#8, most will scoff.
I think a 4-team playoff gets around most of the "issue", but would not be surprised to see it expanded to 8.
Yeah...those poor dumb athletes are FORCED to do this.
If you're going to engage in sceince fiction, you should at least create a list the has a basis in suspending disbelief.
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