The BCS Must DIE!!!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Die I tell you… DIE!!!

A ton of teams with one loss, BYU undefeated and can’t break into a BCS Bowl? What kind of crap is this?!

Who is to say that Texas’s lost was less costly than Oregon’s loss… when if Oregon had hung on they’d clearly be at 2 now… or if Florida hadn’t loss they’d clearly be at 1 now…

It’s all a bunch of crap.

This is my theory… because you can’t have playoffs going forever. Use the same BCS formula to pick out the top 16 teams and seeds… then a playoff from there. You’d still have problems about who got the #16 seed… but then again… wouldn’t you rather tell some #16 seed… so sorry, then have a deadlock on who should be #1?

Or maybe I’m the only one who cares. I was just reading espn.com though and it just makes me sick.

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The system now sucks, in a way. The old system sucked, in a way. A 16 team playoff would suck, in a way.

There’s no perfect answer to this. As a fan, I’m less concerned with having the perfect, unanimous NCAA champion than I am having great bowl games to watch.

Frankly, as a Big Ten booster (and Illinios alum no less) it makes me sick as hell to imagine that a Big East and SEC or Big 12 team will be facing off in Pasedena. I’ve never seen my Illini in the Rose Bowl since I’ve been old enough to enjoy watching football, and now they finally put it together and the tradition and glory of the Rose’s has been stolen. Its repulsive. And it doesn’t even have the benfit of securing a 100% confident National Champ. So, the Granddaddy of them all was raped for no reward.

Also, being a Big Ten guy, I remember that bullshit year (1992 IIRC) where Penn State got screwed to hand Osborne a undeserved share of the title under the old system.

Now, lets hypothesize a 16 team play off. That would require at least 8 bowl game traditions to be scrapped, and more likely 15. Also, it will toss out the tradition that basically every college football fan has enjoyed their entire life. Thats the New Years day bowl games. What do you do under the playoff system? Play just one game on New Years day? Or perhaps have just the semi-finals on New Years day? Which bowl games get moved forward? Do we now scrap not only Rose Bowl tradition, but also Citrus Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Peach Bowl, Sun Bowl, and the others trying to create new traditions?

Whats the other solution? Not using existing Bowls as the venues of the Playoffs? OK, under that theory what happens to the remaining bowls? Suppose in the Quarterfinals Oregon and Colorado square off, leaving one team still standing. You expect them to gear up to play a New Years game after being eliminated from the playoffs? Suppose they do, how do you decide who they match up against? A 16 team system is going to almost ensure that traditional rivalries are broken up. How often do you expect the #1 Pac 10 ad Big Ten teams to be out of the playoffs? What about the #2 Big Ten and #2 Big 12 team?

Basically a tiered playoff system will completely marginaalize and eventually destroy the concept of the Bowl game as we know it.

Frankly, the bitching of a couple teams a year about the AP #1 ranking is not worth pillaging everything that fans have grown up with.

Frankly, I liked it better before the BCS. At least then there was usually only a legitimate beef over rankings or a split crown every third year or so. That wasn’t such a serious problem.

If you’ve got it all figured out, please share. Otherwise I’d just as soon wipe my ass with yours all the short-sighted pleas for a “playoff system”. I have yet to hear any of the supposed experts begging for a playoff sysstem try and pose even one feasable solution.

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You mean there’s a system???

I honestly thought every week someone just arbitrarily picked teams to hold ranks.

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Wow, I really need to proofread.

Subtract a few of those "Frankly"s and replace them with your favorite transition.

And this should read:

Otherwise, I’d just as soon wipe my ass with all the expert’s short-sighted pleas for a “playoff system”.

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First off, my opinion is that we could scrap most of the bowls and nobody would notice. Honestly, 80 percent of them get played on ESPN2 on nights when I’d rather watch be doing something else. The ones that remain still get games. We can even move the Finals game around similarly to how they do it now. New Years Day, sure the Semi-Finals on New Years day… two games on one day one game a week later. They already play the National Championship game on the third or something like that anyway, so its not a whole lot different.

No, they would be eliminated? Not quite sure what you mean here… The Bowls would be a part of the playoffs.

Historical rivalries are formed through season play and rarely through bowl games. How often have Oregon/Wash. Oklahoma/Texas, Florida/Miami, Mich/Ohio St. played ina bowl? The traditional rivalries are still there. No change has been made to this. New Rivalries can be created, while old ones are kept. The good news here is that we always know who has the better team that year.

And who says that the concept of the bowl game is the be all end all for College Football? Just because it’s how we’ve always done it? Because thats what we are used to watching and doing? That’s pretty lame. As a football fan, I don’t want to sit back and think, "Oregon very well could have beaten Miami this year.’ I want to know that Miami would have kicked Oregon’s ass… or whatever… I want to know who the best team in the country is. Not throw conjecture based on a season.

Last year really did it for me. I’m convinced that Oregon State was the best team in the country at the end of last season, but we’ll never know. Will we?

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What’s up with Virginia Tech STILL being ranked ahead of Syracuse? Not only did we beat them, Pitt beat them! 38-7! I hope Miami scores 90 points on their lousy butts.