For those college football heads out there…
Who should the Oklahoma Sooners play for the National championship? I think either LSU or Ohio State not Southern California. But if USC wins out they will be there because of ratings from California.
If LSU beats Alabama, my alma mater Ole Miss and Georgia for the SEC championship game, they should be in to play Oklahoma. Ole Miss and Georgia re no wimps. Ole Miss has a QB by the name of Eli Manning, who is the brother of Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts. Eli is a better QB than Peyton, and will have nice career in the NFL. beating three SEC teams in a row with a one loss record earns you a spot in the game.
Ohio State should be there if they win out. The Big 10 needs a championship game. I would pick Notre Dame or Marshall as a 12th member to make this happen. If you win the Big 10 and are undeafted, you are in. My opinion.
The PAC-10 is a weak conference. Washington State as a runner up? Maybe. But the commitee wil pick USC because they are in the second largest TV audience in the country. Even UCLA fans will cheer USC to win or to watch to cheer Sooners. How in the hell mdid a college from such a boring state get a team anyway?
You’re asking the question a few weeks too early. All the above-mentioned teams have tough games left, including Oklahoma. Even good teams can get caught looking ahead to other opponents - it happens every week. The question of who should play for the title tends to resolve itself on the field, almost every year, and will do so again.
But, assuming they all win out, it has to be Ohio State, both for playing a much tougher schedule (Purdue and Michigan coming up) and for the chance to defend their title.
Huh? You don’t seem to understand how the BCS works, do you? And what happened the “east coast bias” that everyone was ranting against for the last 89 years?
Assuming USC and OSU win out, and USC finishes #2 in the BCS, as it appears the chips are going to fall, despite OSU’s stronger “strength-of-schedule”: I think the BCS has really done little but put college football almost right back where it started from, when #1 and #2 were selected by the writers and the sports information directors…er, I mean, coaches. Unless one team’s strength of schedule is really bad, I mean TCU-bad, poll position counts for a lot more than SOS. Wasn’t the NCAA trying to get away from “poll bias” with the BCS in the first place? Why not just go back to the polls, if they’re going to count for so much?
For obvious reasons (hint: they say it’s not about the money, so of course it’s ALL about the money), there will never be a playoff system. Still, IMHO the BCS has done little more than make many people who were in favor of a playoff shout even louder. There’s got to be a better system than the BCS.
There is. The BCS is really there only to make sure the 2 top teams play for the title. The other games don’t really matter. It would be very easy for an NCAA committee to pick the 2 top teams by a conference call - hell, they schedule an entire 66-team basketball tournament that way in just a few hours. How hard would it have been last year for a chairman to say “Anyone who doesn’t want Miami and Ohio State, speak up. Anyone? Done. Let’s go have a beer.”? You don’t need power ratings or stats geeks to do that; they just get in the way.
I like my idea. An 8 team playoff with the winners of the ACC, Big 12, Big 10, Big East, Pac-10, SEC, and two at large teams (the two highest ranked teams that didn’t win their conference).
The Big 10 and Pac-10 play in the Rose Bowl as God intended. The rest of the bowls get divied up however. They play on New Years (at least the Rose Bowl does) and a playoff ensues from there.
Or go back to the old way of just having the bowls. But don’t mess with the Rose Bowl, dammit.
As a UCLA alumnus and fan, I’d like to respond to this with I’D RATHER POUR LEMON JUICE INTO MY SLICED-OPEN EYEBALLS THAN ROOT FOR THOSE SOUTHERN CAL @#)(!)%)!)(@BARBRA STREISAND@)(@#)%&)_$*!!!.
Yeah, that’s kind of like expecting we Michigan folk to start cheering for the Buckeyes. Ain’t gonna happen. No way. No how.
Speaking of which, I must say all this talk about OSU winning out is extremely premature. The big game is in the Big House this year, and obviously the fates intend for Tressel to start learning how that Cooper futility feels.
You mean, there’s not a team that can beat the Sooners, assuming that the Sooners play to their ability and the opposing team doesn’t play way over their heads. Any team can fall. Any team.
Just how did God intend on the Big 10 and Pac 10 to play in the Rose Bowl? I must have missed that in Sunday School.
Heck the Big 10 can’t even count how many teams they have in their conference.
OU does “look” pretty much unbeatable. But I think the Big 12 is a bit overrated, so I wouldn’t be surprised if OU loses their bowl game. Big 12 teams non-conference schedules pretty much are automatic wins (Colorado’s schedule was tough (Florida State, Wash St. UCLA and Colorado St.) and A&M had VA TEch and Pittsburgh)
I’m sorry, but the fact that you even question it marks you as a person of low moral character. I suspect that Airblairxxx and Gorsnak will support me in this.
