Notre Dame Joe

I think you guys have a good President. I like how he stated his case without reference to the Sisters of the Poor.

maybe they'll have to let a 12-0 Boise in now. It will depend on who is on the super committee and how they got there.

Thanks Nexus that is a good read. SMU having only 2 was the biggest surprise to me. Were they dropped from the poll on probation?

And this is why non-conference scheduling is important...for some teams in certain conferences. Teams like Florida and LSU could schedule Norfolk State, Slippery Rock, and St. Mary's School of Knitting as their 3 nons every year. Why? Because half their scheduled conference games will all be teams ranked in the top 12 so that basically balances out any crap teams they want to play OOC. Teams such as Va Tech, Boise, and Notre Dame will have to schedule strong teams or they'll get left out in the wind due to weaker conferences/no conference championship game. That's cartel logic. They've roped off part of CFB and called it the major conferences. Then they tell Boise that they aren't worthy to play them in a bowl because Boise wasn't a member for the regular season. I might prefer Congress to act when Boise or whoever takes the mantle gets the shaft in favor of a weaker team. I suppose we have to wait a few years and see. I'm actually not worried about an 11-1 ND team (and would be happy in any case to have one). Our schedules are hard and we bring $ so we wouldn't be given the Boisenberry.

Moiraine, how is that fair, to the #4 or #3 team left out? It's "fair" because they've already lost to one of the other teams in the playoff and the #5 team might be an undefeated team like Oklahoma State last year. I put fair in quotes because there's no such thing as a perfect system. You mention a non subjective way to determine it. That doesn't exist. The BCS is pollsters and computers. I'm guessing (though I obviously don't know) that they'll use the BCS and have some stipulations like what I mentioned. But if the #5 team were clearly lackluster in comparison to whatever team gets left out - which may be either #3 or #4... You're right, though, there's no perfect way to do it. And the BCS does use poll #s, so it factors in the human component. However, the result is non-subjective. The BCS condenses everything it uses as factors into one output number. If there are imperfections in its weighting algorithms, that methodology can be released openly and subject to debate. However, the rules are set and clearly defined. If a team didn't make the cut, it can be clearly seen why. If there is even a tiny bit of "purely subjective argument" introduced to a committee decision, then all this is thrown out the window and made worthless. If a team doesn't make the cut, why? Because an eloquent speaker made a passionate 15-minute case for another team? Because it was put up to a human vote and a few guys (whose sympathies might forever be questioned) overruled another? It already happened after 2003 when the objective system cut out Southern Cal. After some eloquent whining they realized money making teams shouldn't be excluded and thus tweaked the BCS to make SOS unimportant compared to polls. No one mentioned that the system was put in place to break ties by using SOS. Trivia, the Trojans get in [and the system probably remains unchanged] if ND hadn't lost to Syracuse and/or Hawaii lost to Boise St in the last week. To me, that was our only win over USC of that era. Anyway, this is college football. We've never wanted a purely numbers based system and it's never going to happen.

Pretty sure the Cotton Bowl in Jonestown will be in the mix for the semifinal bowls. Did they announce how that will be decided? Will the bowls rotate who gets to host a semi? And does anyone know if the national title game has to be in a city that hosted an earlier bowl?

Well, according to today's announcement, cities get to bid on the national title game. So in theory, Chicago could open the checkbook and bring LSU to play on Soldier Field.

The +1 would preserve the importance of all the bowls. This one says that 2 of them are transformed into playoff games. And now a selection committee will choose instead of the polls. Yeah, nothing got better today. EDIT: There is no chance the committee will pick the 3rd best SEC team.

The Cotton Bowl is played in Cowboys Stadium. and I think the Georgia Dome hosts one or two. (Chick-fil-a?). And there is the Alamo Bowl. And the New Orleans Bowl. Any bowls still use Reliant in Houston? ..and don't forget the Fiesta bowl, which had the MNC in 07' and 11' in Arizona, both indoors. "University of Phoenix Stadium" is retractable. Still the Fiesta Bowl in Sun Devil Stadium had much better college football atmosphere and way cooler pregame festivities.

the biggest threat IMO is to the rivalry games that got placed at the end of the year. There is too much temptation to pull your starters, especially if you know you are going to a neutral site. Or they insist on it in September. Imagine if you had a PAC rival who demanded to cancel the series unless their away game was moved to October

I don't believe any of the projections about hidden revenue magically appear. The pool of college football fans will not increase because we adopt a new post season structure. If they're going off NFL analogies then I'll tell you why the playoffs have better ratings; from people who skip the boring regular season.

My votes are Soldier Field or Sun Devil Stadium. Brats or bebes

Yesterday I read that he was "right about Nebraska leaving."

Exactly, what makes college football great right now is that the regular season games matter so much. If they start adding tons of playoff games, the regular season games will become as boring as the NFL. I'm glad that Pelini and Perlman are speaking out against playoffs altogether. This is reason #3 although it's really the most important. Under the BCS system, flawed as it is, the insignificant games all matter. I can't count how many times the die hard fans tuned in for top team vs unknown Thursday night scrimmage. Or the tension knowing that any loss bumps you closer to the title game. You remember2001 when you were knocked out of the title game only to get bumped back into it when no #2 team could win their last game. You get buried without it. No one is going to care about the minor games once they are rendered truly minor. It will be like weeks 15/16 of the NFL *1000

Didn't ShaggyOrangeBevoBlood.com say that ND was flipping from Big East to Big 12 in all sports but football, but will play 4 to 6 football games with Big 12 teams AND keep NBC as a third tier network? (I think that they also reported that all Texan farts don't smell and oil is good for all that ails you) Yes you are correct and 810 sports down here in KC yesterday is saying that the big 12 will get ND and FSU. I hate ND but would love them to join the big add syracuse and stop right there. Their source is orangebloods. Ndnation is doing backflips to figure out if Chip Brown could be wrong this time even though he was right some other time.

Sorry but this is the Big Ten portion of huskerboard and you aren't a part of the Big Ten. Go post ND's scores in the independent schools portion of the board or join a conference. Did you hear who speaks for the conference commissioners? http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8078786/bcs-commissioners-reach-consensus-four-team-college-football-playoff

3 out of 4 ain't bad need one of these for ND Well that's the other team that beat MSU...give them credit. NO its ND!!!!! for God's sake Just think about it, someday, very soon...they'll be a fellow Big Ten member. I cannot wait. We're just not that into you.

I always tell them that the backups are part of the team too.

And he also mentions that Michigan may not be able to handle the Huskers in Lincoln. He states it'll be a close win or Michigan will lose. I actually like our chances in Lincoln. The game I am worried most about is the away game at Ohio St. I link the board some tips on car camoflauge and discount flak jackets.

Reason 2 for the bowls is that they are sort of family vacation plan during the holiday. Mr and Mrs Subway Alumni (or whatever Huskers call Nebraskans that didn't attend NU) can find out what bowl they're in in late November and plan around it. Now in a playoff you'd have to plan on a trip to Lincoln or some other school in December and then wait to find out that you might be in some other neutral site. It throws a monkey wrench into the entire thing., I advocated a +1 ever since the BCS made the insane decision to have two bowls in one week in one place. Every year I draw up how much better it would have been under the old 5 bowls, it's somewhere in the archives here. So if that gains traction it will be great until the day that an important school wins its bowl and finishes #3. (Texas, Ohio State at 3 would bring an instant 4 team playoff).

we win at something. ND Football 970. Our Lowest score is WBBAll at 960.

I thought it was too cold for his family.

I forgot that anOSU is not eligible for 1/3 the penalty that UNC got. I should have voted Wiscy simply because they could luckbox into playing the Big12 champion and then their power running might work. I like their style but they are rarely talented across the field enough to beat a top team. Your defense looked so tentative last year, staying in place and waiting for the ball carrier to get there. Compared to the 90s bowl replays, they looked like a practice squad.

But we'll still have that. There are about 35 bowls, right? Even if we take the top 16 teams (biggest playoff proposal on the table), that's only eight bowls cut from the schedule. 25+ teams will still end their season with a bowl win. I'm doubt the bowls can be sustained or at least not in a form that resembles what we know them as now. Bowl sponsors will want to pour in money for what? They'd come to resemble a deep run in the NIT tournament. For satisfaction, the Rose Bowl winner always ends the season proud. But, in 2022 would the BTN start running specials on on how the loser of the your CCG beat the #2 PAC team? I think with a playoff, the major bowls become leftover Meineke Car Care type bowls. otoh playing the old bowls and then a +1 gets you the best of both worlds.