BULL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES - NCAA Division 1-A Football is Sports' Biggest Fraud

January 8, 2007 | L.N. Smithee

[Arkinsaw]

The rant is pretty good except for:

Oops. USC lost outright. And Michigan didn’t even play, but some voters in the poll decided that Florida, which won the SEC title game, somehow became better than the Wolverines, who only lost to the reigning #1, overnight. Florida poll-vaulted all the way to #2 despite being bogged down at #4 in all three determining factors.

The fact that Florida proved this part way wrong on the field. Probably ought to yank that part out of there.

[Phlap]

Can you say gambling? I can. That is what we are talking about. Not student athletes and national champions.

[Hatteras]

"Who knows, maybe if there was a legitimate tournament, they would have defeated Boise State to prove they were the best team. But they didn’t, and we'll never know, just like they don't want us to know --"

Let me preface this by saying that I am not a Florida Gators fan but I did pull for them over the Mighty undefeated Ohio State Buckeyes. (What can I say? I'm an underdog kinda guy...)

I'm all for a playoff system. Lord knows they had plenty of time between the end of the regular season and last night, but this guy is a whiner.

First off, for the past two or three months we have been hearing that a BCS #2 position will determine who gets slaughtered by the mighty Buckeyes. Buckeyes this, Buckeyes that, blah, blah, blah... Now, the Gators come in and make the mighty Buckeyes look like a bunch of school girls and hand them their @$$e$ and now we hear, "Well, the Gators are okay, but they didn't have to play Boise State!"

Give me a frickin' break...

A playoff system would be much better than the current BCS crap but if I were king? We're going back to five major (sponsorless) bowls, Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta (sorry Atlanta), all played between New Years eve and New Years day and absolutely, let me repeat myself here so we all understand, ABSOLUTELY!...... no more Rock'em Sock'em Robot commercials!

As a matter of fact, since I will be king, there will be a new law. A business can not repeat a commercial more than twice in one week. Man law.

[Defendingliberty]

Just found this...
All three games (the Rose Bowl remains on ABC) that aired on Fox are down from the games in last season's comparable time slots, and the Louisville-Wake Forest game in the Orange Bowl posted the lowest number ever for a BCS game at 7.0.

The previous low was 7.4 for the Utah-Pitt Fiesta Bowl after the 2004 season.


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4447602.html

[TaxRelief]

You should rewrite this with the correct numbers, and explain the current system a little more clearly, then repost.

It would be very interesting if it was explained more concisely and accurately.

[RabidBartender]

I would love to see them do away with "polls". 65 jock-sniffing writers shouldn't get to determine who the champion is - the football field should, through a playoff system.

Free Boise State!

[Tanniker Smith]

Frankly, I don't care about the "championship", and I think that there are so many "bowl" games now that it's ridiculous. And the names of some of them ... most of them don't even have names, just sponsors. Now if you're in the "Blockbuster" Bowl, at least that sounds exciting. On the other hand, if you're in the "socks.com Bowl", well, not so much.

[Hatteras]

"On the other hand, what about the guys at schools like Appalachian State, who won the Division 1-AA title ON THE FIELD? Some of them might make the cut at a pro camp..."

Kevin Richardson. Remember the name...

[PetroniDE]

Here is a solution to this mess.

1) Buy a trophy.
2) Declare Boise St. 2007 Football Bowl Subdivision National Champions.

Here is some logic for you.

Florida lost to Auburn
Auburn lost to Arkansas
Arkansas lost to USC
USC lost to Oregon State
Oregon State lost to Boise State

Who did Boise State lose to this season? NOBODY !!

Save the argument about strength of schedule and "didn't play nobody". How many SEC teams play non-conference road games? Think any SEC teams would play Boise State home and home?

[randita]

Football fans can gripe all they want, but what will have more sway are the advertisers who spent a ton of money buying second half spots that nobody watched, because it was such a lopsided game, people switched the channel or went to bed (I chose the latter--the boring nature of the game coupled with a martini did me in).

[jammer]

You get my vote for king!

But, can you make an exception for the "DAD got HOSED" commercial? I've seen it 50 times and still laugh uncontrollably!

[Phantom Lord]

Here is the biggest problem. Far to many people care far too much about how a sports team does. A win or loss by your favorite team has ZERO actual impact on your life.

[Triggerhippie]

For the record: Under the current system, of the 119 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (sheesh!) college teams, 52 of them can't possibly win a national championship no matter what.

Mathematically speaking of the 119 NCAA teams, 118 can't possibly win the national championship.

As a Gator fan, I'd love to see a playoff. Florida will, more likely than not, be in the hunt year after year. Notre Dame, Boise State, and many other severely over-rated teams will be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Once again, Boise State played a barely winning game against a highly over-rated team. This was their ONE "tough" game the whole year. Move them to the SEC and they would take their rightful place behind Vandy and Kentucky. Sorry about the truth...

[Triggerhippie]

See post #33.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

2006 Boise State Football Results

August 31 Sacramento State W 45-0

September 7 Oregon State W 42-14

September 16 at Wyoming W 17-10

September 23 Hawaii W 41-34

September 30 at Utah W 36-3

October 7 Louisiana Tech W 55-14

October 15 at New Mexico State W 40-28

October 21 at Idaho W 42-26

November 1 Fresno State W 45-21

November 11 at San Jose State W 23-20

November 18 Utah State W 49-10

November 25 at Nevada W 38-7

January 1 vs No. 11 Oklahoma W 43-42

Not exactly the toughest of schedules.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Loads of nonsense. Why is the Boise State any more worthy of recognition than Grand Valley State which was also undefeated?

There is no real doubt among football fans that Florida is the best team in the country.
UF
USC
OSU
WIS
LSU
AUBURN
ARK
would all clean Boise State's clock. Particularly the SEC schools.

[Hawk1976]

Please chalk any snippiness in my earlier post up to not having my morning coffee yet and being rushed.

I would like to see a sixteen team playoff system myself.

The school president's won't bite because semesters end right about that time in December (finals). The president's and the AD's also like the money the bowls generate. I agree they could get more with a playoff system and parallel bowl games.

[GOP_Raider]

Look, my team (The University of Utah) played in the Fiesta Bowl against a very bad, very unworthy Pitt team in 2004. If they held Boise State at arms length this year--and I don't disagree--then we were held at several arms lengths in '04.

If you ask me, this wouldn't be an issue if BYU hadn't been awareded a national title in 1984 based on little more than being lucky enough to be the only undefeated team in the country that year.

[dufekin]

Cut the regular season from twelve game to the traditional ten, run the traditional bowl match-ups in late November or over Thanksgiving weekend (requiring six wins to enter), then conference championships the first weekend of December. Every conference must hold a championship (most likely BCS #1 v. BCS #2 in the conference).

Then run a 16-team tournament over Christmas break. Every team meeting at least two of the following criteria gets an automatic bid: conference champion, won a bowl game, in the top 16, undefeated regular season. Other bids go to the teams with the highest BCS ranking. The BCS can rearrange matches only to the extent necessary to prevent rematches of previous games.

The bowls will generate money because they will determine whether a team gets into the tournament and quite possibly whether a team gets to play in its conference championship. The tournament will generate money because it alone will determine the national championship. The winner plays at most 16 games, compared with the 14 games now common and the 15 games possible with a pre-season classic (now abolished).