Posted on 01/08/2008 7:50:51 AM PST by meandog
That no longer happens. The national title game is a separate bowl. Won't see a plus 1.
I don’t think with the loss to App State and Oregon you would have even sniffed at the chance. Beating Florida does not make you the greatest team ever.
- Prior to this year, it was 18-19, including OSU's 0-8...so excluding OSU, it was 18-11, mostly playing home games for the SEC.
What was it this year, 5(?) Big Ten teams playing Bowl games where they travelled over a thousand miles and two temperature zones, and the opposition was playing in-state, or even in-city? In many cases, the Big Ten was a significantly lower ranked team playing a higher ranked team - which one wouldn't reasonably expect a high chance of victory.
Where you had a truly neutral field, Michigan State shouldn't have been in the game against Boston College, but completely kicked their butts except for one self-destructing player, who threw two stupid interceptions, and two tosses simply to the other team.
There's no way an unranked Michigan team should have been a challenge for Florida, who they dominated far more than the score.
What's LSU's general record on night games in Louisiana? As I recall, it's something absurd - like 1-2 losses per decade. That's not an insubstantial advantage against ANY team.
Don't forget that if the Big Ten and Pac-10 left the BCS, the Rose Bowl would have been USC / Ohio State--a pretty compelling matchup.
As I noted earlier in the season, OSU was a place-holder this year. They were ranked so highly because everyone ahead of them kept blowing it. Despite next year OSU being stronger, and USC being on the schedule, I expect that you are right - even if they beat USC during the season. This year they were filling a hole between Texas and USC home and homes, and so had an in-state patsy game.
Sonny Seiler is still around and has Uga in fighting shape.
Currently, some of them are prohibbitted from doing so...12 team minimum.
It’s not our fault that we had to play Hawaii. We wanted to go to the Rose.
And this year's result may be the one to get the ball rolling on that. There may be a move to put in some kind of "manual override", because if the polls work out in such a way next year that a team that is universally perceived as "not belonging" gets the nod, it could bring the whole house of cards down.
And you could have playoff games in Ann Arbor and Happy Valley in late December!
Of course the whole point of the bowl games was originally to give people more of a reason to travel to a winter resort...not to determine champions.
And with Cam Newton and John Brantley, the Gators should have more than capable backup QBs should Tebow get hurt.
Yup!. Congrats to them. They didn't lose a game during regulation all year.
As I said earlier “dang good dawg!” I love watching the GA games just for the occasional glimpse of Uga on the sidelines!
“My opinion is that they realize that they are the weakest of the major conferences and wouldn’t get many shots at a title.”
Me thinks this post hit the nail on the head...why would the Big-10 Commissioner support a playoff system, or a plus-one when they can AGAIN get a free ride to the BIG game having played the weakest of all top ten teams?
As I predicted to you in October (and it came to pass), Ohio State played only TWO top twenty teams, losing to one of them at home.
We need a playoff system so that USC and Ohio State (and of course Notre Dame if they lose more than three games) will not be granted free rides to the big game when their schedules did not warrant it. There is a PAC-10 and Big-10 BCS and poll voter bias, and the last two years this bias has bitten them BIG TIME.
Because LSU plays in the SEC.
Because LSU lost twice only in OT.
Early season losses. Particularly this season, they are recoverable. Which is worse, losing the first game (barely) to App State, or losing badly to Stanford mid-season?
Before the Wisconsin game, Michigan was ranked 21st in the BCS. Had they beaten Wisconsin, they probably would have ridden up to the second ten, if not top ten. If they beat #5 Ohio State, then they'd certainly end up in the top five, since they only had two losses--their first of the year--and then finished off their season with ten straight wins. After all, on the same day, several ahead of them would have lost. With the last losses on the last day of regular season, they could easily have been poised to rise to the top as Ohio State did. Which would have been amusing, since it would have meant two two-loss teams in the NC game.
Beating Florida does not make you the greatest team ever.
Since neither I, or anyone else has made such a claim, I'm not sure what your point is.
LOL!
It would be. But it would not determine the true champion. Especially with neither conference having a conference championship. USC/OSU every year would get boring. I for one boycotted watching the Rose this year because of their arrogance. I think the majority of the country would like to see an equitable ending to the season. That means having a playoff. If two conferences want to try and prevent that, then they should be destroyed in the court of public opinion.
My apologies.
I was reading some Michigan blogs earlier saying how great they were for beating a 3 loss Florida team.
In regards to the losses, they were early, but a division II loss at home is to much to overcome.
“It’s because the Big Ten and the Pac-10 have the Rose Bowl, which is the best. It has aura that no other bowl has.”
It has an “aura” to “big” 10 and Pac 10 people. The rest of the world could give a crap. It was that vaunted “tradition” that gave us the glorious spectacle of 90% of the country turning off the game at halftime due to a “big” 10 team not deserving to be there getting blown the hell out. Ditto for the Sugar bowl. Screw the fans wanting to see the best game (UGA vs USC). Who needs interesting stuff like that? We all want outdated tradition and “aura”...right?
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