BCS Championship

Hearing and watching these 9-2 teams pander to everyone and beg to be in the Championship really is pathetic. My match-up, and I don't say this lightly as I am a UGA fan, would be....................

OSU v. Hawaii. 10-1 v. 12-0.

That should shut the 9-2's up.

 

Actually, it would only turn the howls into a 'Mormon Tabernacle'-like chorus.

Most of the 'unfortunate' will grudgingly accept Ohio State, but they'd really scream about Hawaii.

I find the whole thing quite entertaining.. and let's face it, ONE BAD GAME ruining 'the best team' scenario applies in a playoff system same as a ranking based system.

It's been a GREAT SEASON and the best possible argument FOR the BCS. And I find it interesting how DETACHED I was; given I thought OSU might get back into it via the 'back-door'.

And BTW... UGA? If there WAS a playoff system, would they even be seeded, and how?

 

RE: Re: BCS Championship

Top 8 teams in a playoff, you'd give UGA a spot based on rankings. Winning a conference championship should not give you a seed automatically.

An argument can be made that UGA is one of the hottest, if not THE hottest, teams right now. I am confident they would (or will?) put a stamp of worthiness on some Buckeye ass, with the toe end of their cleats.

But for now, OSU v. Hawaii. You know it makes the most sense.

 

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Oh, it makes sense.... But, you know what?

If there was a four-team playoff, Hawaii STILL might become the National Champion.

We ALL know they arent the best team, though. Just as in '02, OSU wasnt the best team. They were the 'best prepared and luckiest' team.

 

RE: Re: BCS Championship

Or as Gordon Strachan told the Shakhtar Donetsk skipper after Shakhtar's Gaffer said that Celtic were "luckier" to have won in the last Champions League match, "No, just bigger hearts."

 

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Too true.. here's a poser:

'What if Maurice Clarett hadnt run the guy returning the interception out of bounds!'

For me... that is the singular great achievement of an otherwise ridiculous 'career'.

 

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Say what you will about Mo screwing his life up royally, but he left it all out on the field that night. Along with many others. They deserved the Championship, as they were the best team, that night.

That was the best Championship game so far.

 

Les Miles, LSU and Michigan

Forget everything else on the subject..

If Michigan 'continues its search' for a new coach through December without naming one, it's Les Miles.

 

Screw the bowl games and screw the BCS, until there is a true playoff in this sport, it is a joke.

 

Now Georgia has the responsibility of pulling back the curtain. Which I don't think will be an easy task, at least for the first half.

Richt was about as pissed-off as I've ever seen him. Which, compared to other coaches, was barely a raised voice. He made a good point however. If it says in the BCS rules that you do not have to win the conference to be considered for the title, why was everyone considering that as the determining factor.

Agree, Don. A joke, but I am sure Fox was happy to have everyone tuned in.

 

Won't happen. College fans can't afford to go to 4 or so playoff games. Way too much money in bowl games as well.

Geaux Tigers!!!

 

And all it will do is shift the 'we were left out ' bitching.

Let's face it... it's fun to argue about this, it makes everyone money, and even if there WAS a playoff, doenst mean the 'best team' won the whole thing.

 

But why not make the bowl games the playoff games? I am tired of hearing won't happen from people and from college football big whigs. If college athletics are NOT about money, as so many claim it's not, I do not see the problem.

Sure we people will bitch about who gets left out, but they bitch about not getting into the NCAA basketball tournament too.

College football is a joke.

 

Because college fans can't afford to go to 3 or 4 bowl games. The bowls will also make less money because their value is less. The bowl system is unique and just doesn't fit a playoff system. There would have to be a clean break.

A playoff system would also mean less money for fewer colleges and conferences... so not a smart choice for college presidents.

The way college football is played today is no different than it as in the 1930s. See no reason to change that. If it was good for Notre Dame in antiquity, it is good for Notre Dame today.

 

People will go to the games. Don't worry about that. In fact, I would guess most of the BCS bowls are filled with corporate big whigs and other such people who could care less about the outcome of the game.

All of these arguments might be valid, but I just do not buy into the theory that things have to stay the same and no change is needed. We bitch about this every season and NO, this is NOT good for college football to have people complaining about it every season.

I am a die hard college football fan, but quite frankly it is turning me off more and more this crap called the BCS.

 

Tom, I agree 100%. That's why I keep on cheering for Southern Miss, not chance of BCS screwing their season up.

 

I don't understand how Missouri got left out and Kansas got in after Missouri BEAT Kansas.