Posted on 01/02/2018 5:54:36 AM PST by blam
“the Rose Bowl was a lot of fun to watch.”
That was not the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl Game traditionally hosted the conference champions from the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences (or their predecessors). That game was hijacked by the NCAA and is being used for other purposes. Not only was the Rose the oldest major bowl game in history prior to its being taken away, but it was the only major game on the left coast and the only one that made sure a PAC team could participate so their fans didn’t have to travel to the southeast.
Since there is a large interest with the SEC, within the states east of Texas, in the south, there are 14 bowl games played yearly of which most are televised. I didn’t count the Boca as it is in the Bahamas. West of Texas, anywhere in the continental US and not counting Hawaii, there are nine bowl games. And a few like the Cactus Bowl, have never been televised.
So taking over a game from a limited amount on the west and competing no one closer to it than Oklahoma, is more than questionable. It’s a set up to erase conferences and channel money. Oh, and Texas is less than half way across the US to the east. I could have added them to the east, but I didn’t give them to anyone.
They should have left the Rose Bowl alone, just like the other bowls they hijacked, and created new locations to play for a separate competition. It’s all about money. And no teams on the left coast, or even near the left half of the US, were selected to play. And before you tell me that they were the best qualified, then elaborate on why #1 and 2 got beat if they are so sure.
rwood
The Rose Bowl committee demanded/requested to be part of the national championship.
Roll Tide indeed!
An all-SEC title game is a travesty. There should never be 2 schools from the same conference in the final. Further evidence that the National championship process is corrupted so that the SEC is weighted higher than others, in order to almost guarantee that it wins the #1 slot.
If the SEC schools should not have been there, then how did they win to advance?
Too bad they did not reschedule GA Tech.
They need to eliminate teams that did not win their conference. Do this and force Notre Dame, etc to join a conference or not be considered. Alabama lost to LSU at home in 2011. LSU was forced to have to beat Alabama twice to win a national championship by the stupid committee back then. Alabama not only did not have to play the extra Conference championship game but were given a chance to win a national championship by beating LSU just one time. How on earth was this fair to LSU? That year, the regular season loss to LSU should have been treated as a playoff game where Alabama lost it’s shot to compete for a championship. Oklahoma State, who won it’s conference should have been given the opportunity to compete with LSU that year.
This season is almost the same scenario except that Georgia is not being asked to defeat Alabama twice to win the championship because they had not met in the regular season. At least both teams had to earn their spot by defeating worthy opponents first.
If two teams played in the regular season, THAT game should knock the loser out of being able to compete with the team who beat them for the national championship and some other team should be allowed to compete for the title. This, or ONLY Conference champions are eligible.
They looked at Ohio State as a conference champion, but they kept seeing the numbers 52 - 14, and could not pull that trigger. Next champion down the rankings was USC at 8, with their loss by 30 to Notre Dame... not quite as bad. It was not a simple take the next one in line.
Stupid squib kick before halftime set it up.
There’s a huge difference going into halftime down two scores as opposed to three scores.
I proposed this solution.
All the Power Five Conference Champs Quality, with the top two seeds getting a bye.
Then you have the two best at-large teams play the week after the conference championship game to see who the sixth team is.
Then the week before New Years’, the 3 through 6 seeds play to determine the Semi-Finalists to play the 1 and 2 seeds on New Years’.
And I would stipulate that the best non-Power Five conference team qualifies for the at-large game, provided they are ranked in the Top 16 (so UCF would qualify automatically).
Jefferson looked like a deer in the headlights that game. LSU is rebuilding after the Miles years and his junior high school approach to coaching. The recruiting failure he is responsible for is still hurting LSU but hopefully (finally) they will find a QB to lift them out of the doldrums.
It’s not a good choice to allow the media to be involved in the selection of any NCAA sport competition. A long time ago I was a member of a junior college football team that was from the northern part of state, and we were schedule to play the southern champion based upon winning a heads up competition with the other good team in the north determined by winning record, the media decision, and choice of schedule difficulty.
We went into that game number two in the state, number 2 in the nation at JC level defined by the A.P., the largest of the sports media at that time.
When the game ended, we beat them by 18 points. The rankings came out on Monday, they were still number 1 and we were number 2 in the state and nation.
So much for media biase.
rwood
I agree there. The Rose Bowl Committee has only itself to blame. Aligning itself with the BCS cartel, has only made the Rose Bowl one more game that’s NOT the national championship and therefore not worth the energy of any sensible college football fan not attached to either team in it during the years the bowl is taken. And saying you will get a better game is like saying the teams won’t all come down with the flu and not be able to play. Shoulda, woulda....
And if it wasn’t for the money and that the committee was afraid wit was going to lose its lucrative ABC television contract by their applying pressure to change to a “bigger” audience, which it didn’t, it wouldn’t have occured.
rwood
Yes, the makings of a defensive slug-fest, Alabama 6, Georgia 3.
6 to 3, in triple overtime?
‘LSU lost only because Coach Miles insisted on playing his love interest Jefferson Jordan as quarterback.’
he was an awful QB, even worse than Danny Etling; actually, much worse...
‘Rose Bowl magic is gone.’
like the guy upthread said,that OSU-USC stinker the other night was any more magical...?
‘The Rose Bowl Game traditionally hosted the conference champions from the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences’
that exclusivity ended when the Rose Bowl entered into the Bowl Championship Series in 1998, logically allowing it to enter into the championship rotation...
‘And before you tell me that they were the best qualified, then elaborate on why #1 and 2 got beat if they are so sure.’
because they got beat less than anybody else in the Power Five...
‘because they got beat less than anybody else in the Power Five...’
I think I misread the post the above was responding to...
“because they got beat less than anybody else in the Power Five...”
Apparently the power five shouldn’t be called that. And for the media to say four teams out of the thousands that play NCAA ball, are the elite, is very short sighted.
Here is an article by Jerry Palm of CBS sports:
Notice that most of the conferences improved upon their pregame expectations. And when one and two this year were erased by lower rated teams, couldn’t this mean that other lower rated teams could also have done it? And if so, how many? The media is playing a game of who gets the money here, and it is not deciding who is the NCAA champion. Just who they want it to be. In the old west it was called stacking the deck.
rwood
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