Do we need a BCS playoff?

Seems to me things are shaking out pretty well.

All USC has to do is avoid falling on their faces against UCLA and they will be deserving of playing Ohio State.

PS: wonder what those two guys who voted #1 spots for WVU, for half the season, are thinking now.

 

Yes, we need a playoff system. Get rid of the BCS crap! Also, what makes USC so deserving of a chance against Ohio State rather than Michigan?

 

Michigan lost to Ohio State.

What makes Boise State so undeserving?

Tomatoe, Tomatto. Can't we at least get a 4 team playoff?

Get rid of the one or two patsies each team plays during the season and shorten the regular season. Conference playoffs. Then 8 or 16 team playoff. I'm thinking no more than 8, as no way 16 teams legitimately have a claim to a national title. But do 8 either?

 

IF we must have a playoff, then I suggest we do it as a modification of the current system.

Top 5 BCS qualify for the national championship.

#1 automatically in the NC game.
2 plays 5
3 plays 4
ALL at neutral sites at least 100 miles from home stadium
winners play a semi-final on New Years

NC game a week later

One good thing about a playoff.. could finally stop the SEC whining

 

True. Then we would be able to prove we are the best, and toughest, conference.

 

I agree with Petty's format, but I think they would have to get rid of all the conf. championship games. Its already unfair for teams who play in the Big 12 and ACC.

 

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What is worse, a close loss on the road at Ohio State or a close loss on the road to an unranked Oregon State?

Yes, Michigan lost, but it was not as if they were destroyed by Ohio State and it was on the road.

As for Boise State, you are seriously having a laugh. Until these smaller non-BCS conference teams decide to play some legitimate teams in their non-conference schedules no one is going to give them the time of day and nor should they.

How much do you want to bet the winner of the ACC Championship (Wake and Georgia Tech) will play Boise State in what will surely be the least intriguing match-up of the BCS bowls.

 

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Definitely having a laugh, Tom. The absurdity of it is that under the current system, Boise State could very well have a right to proclaim themselves national champions if they win their bowl game and OSU does not.

We need a playoff system, even if it is only 4 teams. That 5 team shenanigan Petty came up with is too subject to the current pollster subjectiveness.

 

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You're not going to do away with that, no matter what, PCB. What's the alternative?

Compare to the basketball playoffs...l are you seriously suggesting the winner is the best team throughout the season?

Look at it this way.... how many playoff games will do it?

I'll take the 'subjectiveness', thank you!

 

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I would prefer the subjectiveness of selecting the playoff teams to a selection committee of humans like the NCAA basketball tournament. I know there will always be bitching and complaining for those who are left out, but I think this would make sense.

 

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But there's a place for computer parsing in it too...

I humbly remind you of the two 'humans' voting WVU as #1 for several weeks running.
We all knew, at least I did, that was idiocy. And it has proven to be idiocy.

If BCS takes the end-of-season #1 as automatic qualifier, that means you cant just schedule patsies and go to the playoffs. And means the season will be played to win each and every game.

I have gotten over the 'Hate Notre Dame' syndrome specifically because of introduction of computer rankings. It wasnt that I just hated them... I hated them because, watching their games, I felt they were highly overrated.

The reason I came up with that playoff scenario is that it would allow the least reorganization of the bowl system and guarantee a clearly able top 5 contender a real shot at the national championship.

I dont see how anyone could mind doing away with conference championship games but I dont think my system would necessitate that; it's up to the schools, as it should be.

 

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It is not a bad way of doing things Petty. I just have a hard time giving a team a free pass into the championship. However, of the other methods I have heard, this is one of the better ones.

 

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But it's NOT a 'free pass'... they have to win out to get it - against teams of measurable quality. It's that way almost every year.

 

There is a though, use the same system as D-1AA, D3, D2, etc. That would make way too much sense Don! LOL! I would love to see that happen as would most college football entusiasts.

 

Here's a poser.... Tressel won 4 D 1-AA titles. And played for the title nine times.

Does anyone really believe that Youngstown State was the best or second best 1-AA team in all those years?

Since I'm an OSU fan... I have no problems with 'rankings', and I sure have no problem with playoffs becuase if there is any coach who could take a 'just good' team all the way, it's Tressel.

So WHY would I propose a system that just might make OSU look bad? And, under the system I propose, that COULD very well happen.

 

In a word: Yes.

This is my first year really enjoying College football and a first versus fourth, and second versus third, type play off with the winners meeting in a final would be fairly simple.

 

You would think so Glen, you would think so.

The abilty for us humans to over-complicate what would seem to be a fairly easy answer never ceases to amaze many of us.

And that's where lawyers step in. ;-)

 

I guess you guys STILL dont get it..

Why shouldnt the #1 rated team get a pass, as long as the next four get a shot at him?

You want to ignore it.. but I aint giving up till you answer the question.