BCS Mess

[HUSKER 37]

I say that the Gators should go because they won their conference (which should be stimpulation for the title game). Everyone always says that a playoff would take away from the importantance of the regular season but the BCS doesn't really care about what happens in the regular season anyways. The BCS is all a bunch of numbers and there is not enough common sense envolved in it. I am sick and tired of every year having a debate about who should go to the national title game. After ten years, it has had three games, maybe, that were the clear cut number one against number two. Lets settle the championship the way every other sport in any division settles it. On the field. To hell with the money hungry presidents.

GC..

I almost always agree with your posts.

But would be very dissapointed if we went to a playoff system.

If you want playoffs, watch the NFL.

One of the things that make Division 1 College Football so much more exciting than the NFL IS the controversy.

I still get into arguments with Michigan fans over who would've won a game between UM/NU in '97.

How many of you (Without looking it up) can even name the teams that played in the SuperBowl that year?

I can't even think who was in it last year.

There's also the Rock/Paper/Scissors scenario.

(So much of your sucess would depend on who you played in your playoff)..

Paper U. covered the spread against Rock State, who later crushed Scissors A&M...But early in the Season, Scissors A&M sliced through Paper U's secondary and won by two touchdowns.

I could see maybe having a compromise and have an extra game after the Bowls, but even that would tinker with the Controversy factor a little much.

 

[AR Husker Fan]

Moving to More Sports - NCAA.

 

[strigori]

Lets have a playoff.

I agree. It's in the best interests of college football to have a playoff system in place. But it's not in the best interests of the bowls themselves. And they represent big, big money with a lot of influence.

Bowls are more than that. Taking away the bowl system may give a more clear #1, but there are 118 other teams. WIth close to 100 of them that will never win a championship. All the playoff does is change the numbers where the controversy starts. Instead of who is #1 and #2 you just move the argument down to whatever number you pick the for the limit of teams in the playoff. It would also destroy the traditions of the bowl games.

The theories of a playoff and a bowl system wouldnt work. The closest you will ever see is a Plus 1 system, and that has scenerios where it wont work either.

There is no controversy free way to name a champion with college football. This isnt the NFL, and I wouldnt want it to be. If it means having a split national champion now and then, so be it.

 

[gamecocks]

Another problem with the BCS is that they have too many rules that takes away from the common sense of college football. Because of the "only two teams from one conference can be in the BCS games". Wisconsin gets screwed over when they are in the top six of the BCS with one loss but they get left out and a two loss team goes in like LSU and Notre Dame. Its like the retards that came up with this stupid idea just wrote out a bunch of stupid rules and didn't really think them out. They wait and when a big controvery comes up, they sit down and try to rectify the situation when it is already too late. I see the BCS as like the playoffs in the NFL but without the super bowl. They play all these big games and then at the end of the season, they would just try to use a computer formula to determine the winner without letting teams settle this on the field. The NCAA goes out of their way to make a point that the college game is suppose to be about the athletes yet they take away a chance at winning a championship in favor of some computer BCS bullcrap. Lets let the student athletes settle this on the field rather than having a huge discussion every year why team X deserves to play for the championship than team Y.

 

[HUSKER 37]

Another problem with the BCS is that they have too many rules that takes away from the common sense of college football. Because of the "only two teams from one conference can be in the BCS games". Wisconsin gets screwed over when they are in the top six of the BCS with one loss but they get left out and a two loss team goes in like LSU and Notre Dame. Its like the retards that came up with this stupid idea just wrote out a bunch of stupid rules and didn't really think them out. They wait and when a big controvery comes up, they sit down and try to rectify the situation when it is already too late. I see the BCS as like the playoffs in the NFL but without the super bowl. They play all these big games and then at the end of the season, they would just try to use a computer formula to determine the winner without letting teams settle this on the field. The NCAA goes out of their way to make a point that the college game is suppose to be about the athletes yet they take away a chance at winning a championship in favor of some computer BCS bullcrap. Lets let the student athletes settle this on the field rather than having a huge discussion every year why team X deserves to play for the championship than team Y.

It's not just the BCS..The NCAA was pretty stupid in caving to the networks desire to shorten the games with their new clock rules..There's gotta be a way of preventing them from trying out new changes "Willy Nilly" any given season just to serve special interests groups.

The B©S isn't perfect..but it's mucho better than what we had before,,anybody remember the "Bowl Alliance"?...Everything was OK as long as the Pac10/Big10 wasn't in the top two.

Or the "Bowl System"? before the conference ty-ins..where Bear Bryant could manipulate the Bowls to avoid playing T.O.'s Huskers in the early/mid 70's?

A pure playoff system would unavoidably take (way) to much away from the regular season..there's no way around it..The College Football Season would resemble a Basketball game...No need to watch until the last minute or two...We have enough trouble keeping the older season ticket holders off their hands as it is even with every game being "Life or Death".