Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I cant stop hating on the BCS... its like a crack addiction
It is funny to me that BCS officials complain that a playoff would suck the regular season of all of its intensity. If that were true I would be against a playoff. If. All that has to be done is say that only conference winners get into the playoff and each and every one of these games means exactly the same thing... if not more. The Cincinnati and Pitt game would mean one of these teams could play for a shot at the national title. Miami and Georgia Tech would be looking down that same road. Think of much more intense these regular season games would be. I just don't get it. They talk to college football fans like we are idiots.
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I agree, not only would the regular season be just as important, but fighting for the #1 seed slot in order to play the #8 seed 1st game would be yuge!
Assuming that only conference winners got in, you could still theoretically have several teams with identical records. Would you use a computer scoring system to rank those teams?
Yeah, but how many conferences are there? Isn't there clearly a conference winner in most conferences regardless of records. For example, if FL beats Bama in the SEC title game their records will be the same, but FL will be the SEC champ.
You could use a panel of writers/coaches to decide the seeding and matchups. It is what they do for March madness
True, but I think it is much easier for a group to agree on 64 teams versus only 8. It's almost like no matter how you shake it there will always be some controversy around the champion unless you did go to a 64 team playoff. Could you imagine how awesome the office pools would be? The tourney would take a month and a half though. Maybe Obama will figure it out!
yeah any time you have arbitrary selection you're going to have problems. I"m not sure about the conference winners, though. I think you should do a computer/writers/coaches poll that determines the top 8, and they all get in no matter what, regardless of conference winners. Because if you have to include the winner of the Big East, you'd have to exclude another deserving non-conference winner, like Florida this year. ya dig?
Ya there is any issue with any type of system. If winning your conference is not necessary than it would take some of the luster away from the regular season. A team like Alabama would basically know they were in regardless of whether or not they won the SEC against Florida. Maybe use the computer systems in a way that says if you don't have a score of X you arent allowed into a playoff then you have another at-large bid. My real problem with the system is that teams don't control their own destiny. They have to win and hope. Atleast the conference championship would give some concrete structure.
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