Guy Chamberlin Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 There are so many people who hate the BCS and love underdogs and anarchy that I believe the vast majority of college football fans will be rooting for Nebraska on Saturday. Quote Link to comment
VA Husker Fan Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 I don't understand where the SEC runner up falls in the Sugar Bowl but the runner up for the Big 12 doesn't get sh*t in a BCS Bowl...why is that??? Really? You don't understand the difference between what will still be just a 1 loss team, probably still in the top 5, from a 3 loss team (unless it's Texas, who, guess what, will get in a BCS bowl) barely in the top 20, not even close to being eligible for a BCS bowl? What part of that don't you understand? Quote Link to comment
huzkerbob Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 HUSKERS GO ATOMIC ON THE BCS!!! Quote Link to comment
GBRsal Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Scenario: Huskers win by 50 and leap frog everybody and meet flabalama in the title game. Quote Link to comment
bshirt Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Well, at least the BCS isn't throwing Ohio State in the NC game anymore (watching Buckeyes get slaughtered every year is too boring to watch anymore...). Quote Link to comment
papersun87 Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Although I thought this was a great read. Edit: I'm now reading an article on SI that claims the exact opposite of this one. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...aska/index.html Big 12 title game could have far-reaching implications for BCS The most important game of the weekend won't take place in Atlanta. Sure, the SEC championship will pit No. 1 against No. 2 with a trip to the BCS title game hanging in the balance, but the outcomes are clear. Either Alabama will play for the national title, or Florida will. Rather, the most important game of the weekend will be played in Arlington, Texas, beneath a set of 180-foot-long video boards. The Big 12 championship will help determine who plays for the national title, but it may also ultimately determine how the teams that play for the national title are selected. We know who Texas and Nebraska fans want to win, but if you don't have a dog in this particular race, the team you choose to back says a lot about who you are. If you crave a Texas win, you probably yearn for the days when the Bluebonnet Bowl extended invitations in October. You probably hate ice cream and French kissing. You probably root for the club against the baby seal, or at least for the New York Yankees. You don't understand why everyone complains about the BCS, and you also probably wonder why you don't get invited to more barbecues. If you ache for a Nebraska win, you probably keep a mock bracket somewhere in your desk. You probably love pizza and puppies. You probably consider Boise State's Statue of Liberty the greatest play in the sport's history. You want a playoff, and you want it now. If any of this rings true, then you're pulling for the wrong team. BCS backers should pray Nebraska stuns Texas. For that matter, they should hope Pittsburgh beats Cincinnati and New Mexico State upsets Boise State. That would leave the SEC champ and TCU as the only undefeated teams. Finally, a team from outside the big six conferences would play for the national title. Conventional wisdom suggests the BCS officials, whose system is designed to horde most of the money and the glory for the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, Pac-10 and SEC, would declare a state of emergency. Far from it. They would declare victory. They would hail their system as an unqualified success. TCU against the SEC champ would be the exception that proves the rule. Playoff lovers should back Texas, because in this case, chalk equals potential change. They should want Cincinnati to beat Pittsburgh, Boise State to beat New Mexico State and the Longhorns to throttle the Cornhuskers. That would set up a BCS title game between Texas and the SEC champ, which, besides being eminently watchable, would leave undefeated Boise State, Cincinnati and TCU on the outside looking in. That would invite more politicians always eager to siphon votes off an enraged fan base to join Sen. Orrin Hatch's and Rep. Joe Barton's crusade against the BCS. Make no mistake, BCS officials are nervous about government intervention. If they weren't, they wouldn't have installed Bill Hancock as executive director/mouthpiece/whipping boy, and they wouldn't have hired former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer's PR firm to defend the BCS to an increasingly unhappy block of constituents. A trio of undefeated teams with no chance to play for the national title would provide the best foil the playoff crowd can pit against the BCS. A TCU appearance in the BCS title game would be a thrilling example of the little guy crashing through a glass ceiling, but it would only embolden the men who foisted the BCS upon us. So it may be counterintuitive, but if you love the status quo, cheer for Huskers to win a stunner. If you want a playoff, Hook 'em Horns. Quote Link to comment
OmahaPlaya Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 If I remember correctly this whole system came about because when Nebraska and Michigan split the title one year it was all due to the fact that the bowls couldn't get the teams to play each other leading to the formation of the BCS. Quote Link to comment
EbylHusker Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Staples is a moron. If you want a playoff, you cheer for Nebraska to win, Alabama to win close, and the voters to go brain dead and allow a Florida/Alabama rematch for the NC. I do not believe the voters would allow it, but that's what you'd want to cheer for. If it did happen, as the original article states, you'd be able to see the individual nuclear meltdowns most college fans would have from the moon. I'm not even sure how they let idiots like Staples write for national media. Quote Link to comment
VA Husker Fan Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Pitt is clearing a path for TCU... Quote Link to comment
Apathy Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Pitt is clearing a path for TCU... I wouldn't jump the gun yet....Cincy just scored to make it 24-31 with Pitt leading and still PLENTY of time left in the 3rd quarter Quote Link to comment
DCHusker Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 The flaw in this argument: "The human voters could reward one-loss Florida -- with just one loss to the No. 1 team in the nation on its resume -- the nod over an unbeaten Horned Frogs squad out of the Mountain West." They would not. No human voter wants to see an Alabama-Florida rematch. TCU would be ranked #2 over Florida et al by a healthy margin. I know everyone hates the BCS, and a playoff would probably be better, but most of the time it still works. It will this year. Quote Link to comment
HuskerTrucker Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Have a hard time believing that they would do a rematch, especially since the last game they both played was against each other. Might be looking at the winner of Alabama-Florida game playing TCU for NC if Nebraska beats Texas. I would personally love to see Nebraska thrown the BCS system into a madness like that. I am betting that no matter what happens, there will be more calls from Congress for a playoff system. More hearings... I think it is time to go to some sort of abbreviated playoff...with all the parity, the super conferences aren't as super as they once was, and the lesser conferences can play with the teams that previously were in the super conferences. I think the system of polling is totally stupid, and is totally biased to the coast teams, and nobody can tell me some reporter, or especially any coach has seen every team in the top 20 play in any given week to know what is really going on with those teams. All they do is look at the stats and go from that. Stats can be very misleading. And I am not in favor of computer rankings, because a team can have 6 games they barely win, or win by some fluke, then have 6 games that they totally blow out their opponents, and their numbers will be looking better than a team that has consistency. Quote Link to comment
agibson95 Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 My prediction: Nebraska beats Texas in OT by 1 point. Florida manhandles Alabama. Texas beats TCU and Cincy (largely due to a 1 point win to Pitt) on the computer rankings Texas ends up 2nd and playing Florida in the NC Nebraska beats Boise in the Fiesta. I am happy! Quote Link to comment
EbylHusker Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Erm...Texas loses to #22 Nebraska (or whatever we are) and goes to the title game? No matter what the computers say, Texas would drop too far in the human polls (2/3 of the BCS, remember) to play for the NC. There's fantasy and then there's drug induced delusion... Quote Link to comment
VA Husker Fan Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Texas beats TCU and Cincy (largely due to a 1 point win to Pitt) on the computer rankings The BCS forced the computers to disregard margin of victory. As far as the computers are concerned, Cincy beat Pitt. Period. Quote Link to comment
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