What I’d like to see for conference championships is for the two highest ranked teams to play each other in the conference. As an example, instead of North and South playing each other for the Big XII championship… how cool would it have been to have an OU Texas rematch for the Big 12 Chamionship? Then there would be no question on who to send to the BCS championship game.
I’m aware of that. It doesn’t change my point.
Wow that’s a great debates type of statement. But I’m sure you know that. Two Heisman trophy quarterbacks playing for the BCS… It’s not like it’s Sister Mary’s School of the blind playing the leprocy orphanage. I wouldn’t say that shit instead.
This is the best explanation of the current system I have ever seen. Congrats, Utah.
Crap, I missed the edit window. That last line was supposed to say: "I wouldn’t say that “we got shit instead.” I think it’ll be a good game.
Why include the winners of each conference? Why should the Big East or Big 10 champion go, if Texas or Alabama is ranked higher?
Hamlet, you’ve been warned twice before about insults outside of the Pit. This is your third warning.
No insults outside of the Pit.
I like conf champ games (even though my conf Pac10 doesn’t have one). They are fun to watch, usually are pretty good teams and something is riding on it.
However, regarding the complaint about having to play one: Those conferences did it to themselves. They expanded to 12 teams for some reason (probably money), split into 2 divisions and created a conf champ game to bring in money.
So, if you don’t like playing one, jettison your 2 worst teams and play every team in conf head to head.
A couple of years ago, I played NCAA on the original Xbox. I created a school and put them in the WAC. Then I would schedule a really tough non-conference. I knew if I screwed up more than once, it was the Humanitarian Bowl for me. I played several seasons with this team and usually played the Humanitarian Bowl. One season, there was only one undefeated team and I had only one loss. The undefeated team played a one-loss Tennessee team in the NC game. Who did Tennessee lose to that year? My team. I did play in a BCS bowl that year. I think I only played one more season after that I was so irritated.
USC could play a team of 15 clones of my grandmother and lose 16 games game by 58 points and everyone would still declare them the best team in the nation. I would love to see USC play the best SEC team that way this could finally be settled on the field.
Please… that is a ridiculous exageration. If Southern Cal were to play such a team, they would win 11 times, but lose one in the middle of the season.
On to current events*: Ohio State and Old Miss have demolished the theory of Big 12 dominance. What was considered a trio of excellent offenses and good defenses has been proven to be a trio of better-than-average offenses and sub-par defenses. How much has the spread for the Florida/Oklahoma game widened since the truth of the Big 12 has been exposed?
*Should I have started a new thread? I apologize it that is the case.
Then the SEC and Big XII need to stop being such a whore for the money and figure out a better system. If their system hurts their teams, the solution isn’t to break our’s equally.
This isn’t even unusual though. 8-8 San Diego made the the NFL playoffs over the 11-5 New England Patriots and 9-7 Jets.
This is why Piker is wrong. The regular season would REMAIN extremely important, just instead of fighting for the #1 ranking, you’re fighting for your conference championship. (Would make interconference rivalries ridiculously exciting). Granted, such a system would cause problems in scheduling non-conference games.
I’m missing something here. Why would interconference rivalries be exciting when those games wouldn’t matter?
Yeah, I’m confused too.
Oh, and any college football system that includes a team like four-loss Virginia Tech in the Nat’l Championship picture is a joke.
Basically, with college football, we have three choices:
(1) The Old School Bowl System: People argue about which team is the best in the country, but the whole idea of there being a clear national champion is put to bed. Restore bowl games to their pre-BCS stature, and new years returns to awesomeness.
(2) The Bowl Championship Series: Picks a clear winner, but tends towards under-inclusiveness. Devalues bowl season by diminishing other major bowls. Protects integrity of college football regular season.
(3) Expanded Playoff Proposals: Picks a clear winner, but would tend towards over-inclusiveness. Devalues bowl season by diminishing each bowl as simply part of a tiered tournament, decreasing the amount of traveling fans at the stadiums that create atmosphere and energy, and destroying some of the oldest traditions in American Sports. Devalues regular season by minimizing the unique importance of avoiding any loss.
I choose (1). I am not a money grubbing conference commissioner or athletic director, or whatever caricature trotted out by unbearable sport-talk radio fans. I’m just a fan that appreciates college football for its unique regular season, and one of the more special events (Bowl Season) in all of sports.
Oh, a caveat to my desired return to the old bowl system. If we ever go back, the major bowls should have to pick their teams on some basic objective standards of merit, rather than on their drawing power. That’s one facet of the old system that I detested.
Presumably because he meant to say intraconference rivalries. 
I’ve never been accused of making any kind of sense, and I don’t see why I should stand still for it now!
And, the the Gentleman who’se grandmother is Taylor Mays: Lets hope the gene pool was favorable in your case!
The Utes aren’t satisfied screwing up the BCS they want to destroy it. Go Utes!
Intra…my bad. :smack:
Do you consider the NFL playoffs a joke?