if LSU goes on to beat Georgia and OU is upset by KS, why would that help USC remain in the championship game, and how likely is that going to be?
my guess: it’s at least somewhat likely that USC will be voted #1 in the human polls, and OU will only drop to #2. With LSU staying at #3, the numbers could add up so that OU and USC still beat out LSU for the championship game.
But that’s just a guess.
The explanation to the BCS system:
- Take large hammer.
- Strike self in hammer with head.
- BCS system will make perfect sense.
It’s ridiculous. I mean, of course I’m biased, but I don’t understand why no one wants to see LSU play in the national championship. I think LSU has performed incredibly well in the best conference in the nation whereas USC has played well against a bunch of weak teams.
As I understand it, LSU has to get the SEC to kick out Georgia and put Tenn into the SEC championship to up their chances. Let’s not pay attention to the fact that Georgia earned their place, if LSU wants that BCS championship, they have to beat Tenn.
Screwed. That’s what the system is.
Frankly, if K State holds their lead here, I think that LSU and USC should play in the big game. Why should a 1-loss conference runner-up get the nod over a 1-loss conference champ? And why is it only Big 12 teams that lose their conference get to play for the championship?
Bah. Bring on an 8 team playoff.
“As I understand it, LSU has to get the SEC to kick out Georgia and put Tenn into the SEC championship to up their chances. Let’s not pay attention to the fact that Georgia earned their place, if LSU wants that BCS championship, they have to beat Tenn”
I think you’re a week slow man…
Someone in another thread called BCS the Blown Collusion System.
Frankly, that’s the only interpretation that’s ever made any sense to me.
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As a Canadian, who sort of understands what’s going on with the BCS and all of the hate coming towards it, I was wondering what people thought would be a better way? Does anyone want to go back to the polls and only the polls deciding it? Or is a playoff the choice of the majority? To be honest, and keep in mind I know little about it, I think the BCS sounds like a good idea. It factors in things like strength of schedule, which keeps teams like TCU who play absolutely no one, out of the championship. But that could be my engineering thought process
I was going to start a new thread about this but I figured I’d stick it in here, since people here obviously know a thing or two about it.
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I could be, I think I heard that last week. 
Ashton Kutcher just jumped through my front door, pointed, and screamed “You’ve been whooshed!” Quite embarassing actually.
I think the game that really said it all about the BCS was actually today’s Notre Dame-Syracuse game, which was said to have “major BCS implications.” Notre Dame lost to finish 5-7, Syracuse finished 6-6.
Why does an early-December game between two non-bowl bound teams have “major BCS implications?” Yes, it’s that all-important strength-of-schedule component. USC beat Notre Dame, so if ND had won, USC’s SoS would have been increased by 0.12 points, but instead…ah, f**k it. Everybody knows the performance of two mediocre teams in a meaningless season-ending game has eff-all to do with whether USC or LSU is a better team. But, since the NCAA was so gung-ho about “every game counting,” we’re in this ridiculous situation whereby, I swear, USC could probably be out of the Sugar Bowl because Wilkes College beat Slippery Rock or something like that.
If money’s the problem with the playoff system (and it is), let’s just go back to the polls deciding #1 and #2, and have all 117 I-A teams agree to allow #1 and #2 to meet in a selected bowl. No muss, no fuss with a cockamamie computer system.