Posted on 01/05/2010 12:32:35 PM PST by William Tell 2
Thus far, the SEC has been mildly disappointing in bowls (5-4) although I took great joy in Va Tech dismantling Lame and the Hillbillies.
>>The South ain’t San Fran. Try getting caught near a “pride parade” sometime with nambla members heading up the rear and tell me about it.<<
You have seriously lost me with that comment. The part of Texas in which I reside will have ZERO tolerance for pride parades for the next couple of decades.
TCU is Christian in Name Only. In fact, they never refer to it as "Texas Christian University" anymore, just "TCU." Ditto for their Cross-Town rivals, SMU.
I’m not omitting anything. Obviously top to bottom BsCS teams are better funded and generally get the very best recruits. I get it. More times than not, the BsCS conference teams will end up on top.
All I am saying is that at every level from pop warner all the way to the NFL, and in virtually every sport, there is a playoff to determine who the champion is on the field/court/arena. Heck, even my church basketball and city flag football leagues have playoffs. Why is it so hard for college football FBS, or whatever they call it this week, to just strap up and prove ON THE FIELD who is the best team in the land? Expand all conferences to at least 12 teams with a championship game in each. Take the winner from each conference, plus a few deserving at large teams and play for a true championship. Why is that so dangerous when its being done at every freakin’ level except FBS?
A playoff may have ended up with Texas and Alabama in the championship game or maybe some other team that got hot at the end of the year. But we will never know because some computer geeks, coaches and irrelevant sports writers annointed two teams to play for a “championship.” And that is just wrong on so many levels.
Alabama, Texas et al already have an advantage BECAUSE of their conference affiliation. And yet you hold that against nonBCS schools when its virtually impossible to schedule a decent BCS team, especially to a home & home series. You can’t attack Boise and TCUs schedule without at least ackowledging that both Texas and Alabama scheduled some laughable games this year. Chattanooga? North Texas? LA Monroe? Are these the types of games you schedule if you are chasing a national championship? That is exactly WHY you need a playoff. Just winning the Big 12 or SEC should not automatically get you into a championship game.
I have to admit I enjoyed every bit of it. But I had been waiting 25 years to see my team back in a bowl game.
I think there is a way to solve this without needing playoffs.
Take each team in Division I, and put them into a basket, you have the Top 32 teams in one basket, the next 32 in another basket etc., at the end of the season.
You randomly draw two opponents for each team out of the same basket. So that basically would force each team that finished in the Top 32 in a season to play two other Top 32 teams in the following season on two designated weekends. One weekend in the first half of the season, the second in the latter half. And each team would play one game at home and the other away. So basically, that would force the TCUs and Boise States to play two games against quality non-conference opponents. It would also finally force UF to play a non-conference game out of state, which they haven’t had to do since 1991.
Nice pic
Tbow is a hell of a football player. I’m glad Bama has seen the last of him
Nebraska almost did beat Texas, didn’t they? Texas barely pulled that one off. Yes, Florida should have been given the 2nd shot if Texas had lost. They are probably the better team. It should have been Alabama/Florida in the Championship game IMO.
I understand what you mean. I used to feel the same way. I found that the benefits of the playoff system don’t outweigh the current costs, which are very exciting games played by kids who are enjoying themselves and watched by kids who are enjoying themselves.
If we had a playoff nobody would’ve been watching Iowa-GT last night.
It will be interesting to see what the bowl ratings will be. But surely you don’t think viewership would not at least double had the winner of that game moved on to face the winner of say Texas and Alabama in a REAL championship?
Only the hardiest of college football fans wasted their time watching GT/Iowa or TCU/Boise or even Florida/Cinncy. Why? Because they are meaningless except to those school’s fans. We have already been told that only one game matters - Texas/Alabama.
Frankly, I would take the old system of just letting AP voters decide after bowl season over this BsCS insanity of arbitrarily selecting who will play for some mythical championship.
I’m talking a 16 team playoff. 60 or so teams play in meaningless bowls as it is. Why would that need to change? And when I say meaningless, I’m not disparaging the efforts or reward of the players. I’m talking about to college football as a whole. There is no reason why a Sheraton Aloha Bowl cannot still exist for two deserving teams that miss the playoffs. That would have been the case this year for both Nevada/SMU who played out there - neither were conference champs or ranked highly for playoff consideration. But yet they had a fun trip - well at least for SMU anyway.
Take the conference champs and a few deserving at large teams, play the 1st two rounds at higher seed home fields and then the semis and final at neutral sites. Everyone wins. And even if a team loads up on OOC cupcakes (like Texas and Alabama this year), they at least will have the opportunity to face off against the very best of the NCAA and prove it on the field and not in the polls.
I’m not sure the Sheraton Aloha Bowl could still exist given a tourney system.
As far as the TCU-BSU, GT Iowa or FL - Cincy, ratings - I don’t feel you’re correct. However, I’d have to look at the ratings and compare them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.