Posted on 10/17/2010 8:51:01 PM PDT by optiguy
New BCS Poll Just Released
“Death of an Offense” written by the Regents of Texas Tech University and directed by Tuberville.
A Championship of Champions would be better. Take the top 6 Conferences SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big East, SWC, Pac 10 and two at large and have an 8 team Championship. Then every game of the season is actually a tourney game making an unbelievable season.
Go Ducks
Texas Tech will end their season with two non-conference games this year...who the hell will care by then? Aren’t Non-conf games supposed to be the practice BEFORE your real games start?
just remember. 2000 was also just supposed to be a ‘re-building’ year.
How does this sound? Take the winners of the four BCS bowls, Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange. Based on their ranking entering those games you have #4 play #1 and #2 play #3 all at neutral fair weather sites or domed stadiums. The winners of those two games play for the championship on the off Sunday before the Super Bowl. The integrity of the regular season and conferences remain intact as does the bowls.
As an example of embracing the "new and improved" (and certainly not the stuff of tradition), college football overtime's system was pure genius. Initially I was skeptical of the plan, but seeing it in played out in action over the past several years (like that thrilling UDub game this past weekend) has made me a believer and a fervid advocate.
...and produced by Craig James.
There’s got to be something better than what we have now... It simply sucks and is an abject failure - see the current rankings of Ohio State and Wisconsin! It’s heavily tilted towards favorites and subjective feel.
Decide it on the field, let the better team prove who it is. You don’t get that shot if you’re TCU or BSU. You may have a great football team but you’ll never get a chance to prove you’re “the best” because the coaches and sports writers will never vote for you in the numbers required, because they will never consider you a “big school”. Doesn’t matter what the talent really is like.
And like you, I love the overtime rules. I wish the NFL did the same thing; it’s not cool to have a hard-fought game come down to who wins a coin toss for overtime possession!
Just the usual anti PAC-10 bias. Until the bowl games come along, and they say “woops - I guess those guys were better than we thought”
The rankings are a ridiculous farce - to the point where it isn’t even worth the time to document - but ehre is an easy one -
Stanford - #12. one loss on the road at Oregon.
TOSU (another year of over rated chokers) - #10 - one loss - Wisconsin? With wins at Ohio, Eastern Michigan, and marshall? Is their quality win supposed to be Indiana or Illinois? WTF - both have most wins against like Towson, Western Kentucky, and Akron -
Seriously -
Or maybe it is Illinois’ tough wins against Southern Illinois or Northern Ilinois -
It is the same every year.
Iowa - #15 - already lost to AZ, #18. If Iowa hadn’t played a PAC-10 team, the comments would be “how good is Iowa at 6-0” etc. Where is the quality in the Iowa schedule that is missing from the AZ schedule? Is Iowa’s “quality win” Penn State? ???? Michigan? (did they really schedule Massachusetts?)
So now the Pac 10 will ruin the PAC-10 - by adding teams, and screwing with schedules, because frankly an off week in the PAC-10 is playing somebody “unranked” like USC or Washington or UCLA (destroyers of “quality teams? in other conferences.) or AZ State - lost by one to what we now know to be a powerful Wisconson team.
The jackass commentators would be asking “can Texas still play for the national title since its only loss is to OK” - if they hadn’t played UCLA and got their ass kicked. They are still ranked #19 - with two losses - based on ? one quality win over Nebraska?
OK = #1 - must be those high pressure games at Utah State, Air Force, Cincinnatti, (those three wins by a total of 12 points) Iowa State ..... well - they had that “big win” against Texas. The same Texas man-handled by the unranked UCLA average PAC-10 team. OOh - and Florida State - is the Big East still division 1?
Oregon wins - Tennesee, AZ State, Stanford - (and a rather hapless other 3.)
So - to predict the rest of the year - 50% probable Oregon will lose to some PAC-10 team, OR State, or AZ, or Washington will put together 4 good quarters - or USC or UCLA will play giant killer - then they will somehow be “overlooked” for an OK vs Auburn or LSu or AL national title game.
Oregon will go to the Rose bowl, ranked 4 or 5, play some team ranked 5 or 6 - Michigan State or Wisconsin. And dismantle them. 42-10 or something - and all the pollsters will say “gee - maybe they were better than we thought” - or make some lame excuse like “maybe TOSU was just depressed that they weren’t playing for the title” or some claptrap.
Same thing every year.
When I was a kid growing up in western New York State, we only had two channels (CBS and NBC). CBS carried NY Yankees, Cleveland Browns (Dr Frank Ryan at QB) and mostly Ohio State (Woody Hayes) with some Notre Dame. So I've been a lifelong Yankee, Browns (now Ravens) and Buckeye fan.
It's tough being around FReepers who by and large love our overpowering military but hate the overpowering Yankees and underperforming Buckeyes.
Go you Buckeyes.
Go you magnificent Yankees.
Ravens? Well, they lost the allure of Cleveland and that incredible stadium by the lake (LOL) where I saw Ted Williams go 6 for 8 in a double header against the Indians in 1957. He hit .388 that year, being 38 years old.
I’m the last holdout on this ( the rest of you all side with Obama). I think they ought get rid of BCS, forget about play-offs,and go back to letting the conference titles mean something; the traditional bowl pairings good enough (Rose:
Big10-Pac 10, etc). The push toward “super conferences” would end, etc.It’s not like pros where the best have 10 years or more to win a championship; these boys have 4 at most. Let the smaller, regional groupings survive, I say, as I vanish in the wake.
Think you misunderstand our defintion of *Yankees* LOL!
Go Rangers! (I really can’t tolerate baseball)
\m/ HookEm!
One of those is because they switched dates for the Texas game.
The Horns play a non-conf game towards the end of the season also.
Looks like an SEC West year. 3 in the top 10, all but the Bears in the top 25.
The Auburn - LSU game next Saturday should be good.
Someone is secretly removing FL teams from the Top 25. First Miami, now UF goes missing.
Go Noles! (I wonder how long it’s been since FSU was the only ranked team in FL?)
Excellent addition. Thank you
Yes, and one non-conf moved to the middle of your season isn’t a big deal but TWO at the end? Sheesh
Either way it's a win for Bama.
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