Dec
2007
“The BCS is awesome because the regular season counts.” Or so say the BCS supporters, a.k.a. freaking idiots. If anyone feels that this is true, tell that to, well, ANY team not playing in the BCS Championship game.
Oh, also, btw, FOX, the provider of the BCS games, complete with commentators that don’t follow college football regularly since they don’t actually broadcast any CFB games, don’t know how many FBS schools there are. They were mentioning strength of schedule differences between Kansas and Missouri, and they said there were 119 teams. There were last year, but at last count, there were 120 this year. Thanks alot.
The thing I want to know is, why did it HAVE to be Ohio State? I’d pay to see an LSU vs. UGA Championship game. That’d be fun. Now, we’re just going to have to watch an OSU team that got embarrassed last year at the hands of Chris Leak… Chris Leak feel good about themselves for playing in another game that they have no business playing in. They’re turning into the Miami of the 2000’s.
In the 90’s, Miami would wade their way through the cupcake filled conferences as well as cupcake filled non-conference slates, scamming their way into the National Title Game year after year.
Am I saying that Ohio State somehow scammed their way in? Well, yes. But I am also saying that the system is stacked to allow weaker conferences (Big10, Big East) to have unfair advantages over schools in other conferences. Herbstreit said that everyone who talks about a playoff system is wasting their breath, that the BCS is going nowhere (doesn’t hurt to be an OSU alum at this point I guess), but if even ONE of the BCS conferences (read: SEC) were to pull out, the system would not hold any credibility whatsoever.
So let’s do it Slive. Grow some balls and stand up against Jim Delany, the devil incarnate. You are the commissioner of the most powerful conference in the country, if you go, everyone else will follow. Let the Big Ten hold out and crown themselves “BCS Champions” every year, because the SEC will lead the charge towards the ultimate college football spectacle EVAR.
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I like the idea of the SEC pulling out, haha, of the BCS but why would they do that when all they have to do is send a team to beat OSU to be the NC of the BCS.
Just so it is known I do want a Playoff. But being from Ohio and a UTK grad. I love to see OSU embarassed.
The SEC should just make their own football league. We could still invite OSU and Michigan in for weak homecoming games.
The changes made to the BCS formula over the years have encouraged this, too. SOS used to be heavily weighted, being its own factor in addition a factor in the computers (for real) and the pollsters (theoretically). The computers were also better before they were handicapped by BCS rules, and they also used to count more– 8 computers had equal weight with 2 polls. Now the polls count double, the computers are crippled, and there is no SOS. Essentially the BCS has reverted to a poll system, which is DEFINITELY biased towards big name teams with weak schedules. It’s a joke.
You would gleefully destroy the bowl tradition that makes college football special and unique just to create a playoff series to determine who is number one. A method which is no more fair, no more arbitrary, and a lot less fun than what we already have. If you really loved college football and hated the BCS, then you would say to heck with determining the #1 team with a bowl game. But you’re just a blowhard who thinks he’s found a good reason to spout an opinion. So get ready to keep repeating yourself forever on this topic, because a playoff is never going to happen.
“The bowl tradition?” Give me a break. Your beloved tradition is what got us an awesome Illinois game vs. USC this year, and um… well, not a single game that was exciting enough to even remember. Woo! Tradition!
If there was a tradition of people jumping off a bridge, you’d follow that too huh? BURN!
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