Posted on 12/27/2013 12:03:57 PM PST by rhema
Bowl Games are the College Football version of the NIT.
That’s an unfortunate side effect, but more than ever, this needs to be settled on the field. I’m tired of the media (espn) telling us how it is. The ncaa should be steering this ship, but they acquiesce to the espn $$$.
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What most people seem to overlook is that football -- both college and professional -- is really incompatible with a playoff system no matter how hard these organizations try to pretend otherwise. The biggest problem with football is that the schedule is too short -- which means that the strength of a team's schedule will heavily influence its final record. This is why the SEC does so well in these BCS championship games. Even an SEC team with two losses can probably beat most other conference champions in any given year.
When would these playoffs take place? Making room for a series of playoffs would mean that Division 1A football would have to end its regular season in mid-November, thereby reducing the number of games, or start in mid-August. Otherwise, the season would have to be extended well into January.
Read your link — good stuff, thanks for posting that look back to the before-Genesis time for the BCS.
The bowl games have way too much power...and big name sponsors...even for smaller games. The book Death to the BCS really outlines how corrupt the bowls are
The sad thing, schools are actually losing money sending their teams to bowls.
Win your conference and you get a spot, don’t win your conference and pray for an at large bid. Bottom line, win and your in.
That is why car washes and bake sales were invented
That game was certainly significant - for a number of reasons. Also the 1994 PSU team cemented the need for another system - arguably still the best offense to ever take the field, and yet they had to go to the Rose Bowl, while UNL went on to play an average Cane team in Miami.
Too bad the system they came up with has evolved into espn having all the control.
And therein lies the problem. In any given year the third-best (or even fourth-best) SEC team is better than most of the other conference champions. How does a “win and you’re in” playoff system do any justice in that case?
We must live in alternate universes. I LOATHE the BCS system & cannot wait for the 4 team playoff. Eight will be better.
One answer would be to automatically schedule two games during the season against quality non-conference opponents. Teams would be randomly selected.
Each team plays one of the two games at home and the other away, one game occurs early in the season, the other near the end of the season.
Teams are drawn against teams that finished at a similar level the previous season.
I think this could go a long way to removing the Conference Bias.
The only way they would be left out in the cold was if the Rose Bowl -- where both of the teams had automatic bids -- was played between two of the top-ranked teams in the country.
That all ended when Penn State joined the Big Ten -- which they did for purely financial reasons. So they end up as one of the top-ranked teams but were forced to play an Oregon team with three losses in the Rose Bowl. Too bad, eh?
Your argument doesn’t hold water. In the 16 team format the 6 at large bids go to the 6 highest ranking teams that that didn’t win their conference. in that format the SEC will get their teams in.
I didn’t write the article. I posted it to let FReepers engage in a spirited discussion on the issue.
Don’t look at me, Sean. No veto power resides in this FReeper. I just put the article on FR to let FReepers have a good go debating the author’s contentions.
Quite clearly. I regret my ambiguity.
I profoundly disagree with the original author’s goofy take. In my opinion, he could not be more wrong.
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