doesn't mean until you start playing real teams
they only let you count one game against FCS teams right? well half the teams BSU plays right now should arguably be FCS teams.
I mean, what's the requirement for FBS status anyways, shouldn't you have to beat an AQ team at least once every 5 years or something?
moving to the MWC is a step in the right direction for BSU, but if they actually want to contend for the le game, then they have no business scheduling ANY non-AQ OoC opponents. WTF are they doing playing Toledo and Wyoming this year?
BSU would struggle to finish +.500 in the SEC and would have no chance at a big 12-2 or big 10+2 conference championship. EVERYONE knows this, so why reward BSU for their easy schedule?
if the polls and voters don't get smarter, the BCS will need to adjust their formula to increase the importance of Strength of Schedule.
I'm not sure if this is correct, but I believe all you have to do to be a FBS school is average 15,000 fans at your home games for a season.I mean, what's the requirement for FBS status anyways, shouldn't you have to beat an AQ team at least once every 5 years or something?
rofl are you still on that? Do you think Alabama fans care about that game still? It's like when I give Tech fans about losing to Snead in the Cotton Bowl, expect you're actually serious.
Snead > Harrell
Seriously. That was almost 2 years ago. It's all Girasuck ever talks about in this forum.
Playoffs are necessary.doesn't mean until you start playing real teams
they only let you count one game against FCS teams right? well half the teams BSU plays right now should arguably be FCS teams.
I mean, what's the requirement for FBS status anyways, shouldn't you have to beat an AQ team at least once every 5 years or something?
moving to the MWC is a step in the right direction for BSU, but if they actually want to contend for the le game, then they have no business scheduling ANY non-AQ OoC opponents. WTF are they doing playing Toledo and Wyoming this year?
BSU would struggle to finish +.500 in the SEC and would have no chance at a big 12-2 or big 10+2 conference championship. EVERYONE knows this, so why reward BSU for their easy schedule?
if the polls and voters don't get smarter, the BCS will need to adjust their formula to increase the importance of Strength of Schedule.
necessary to make everyone see how bad it would be and finally STFU about it maybe
When it's relevant to the conversation then yes I will still talk about it. Would you like me to use last years Rose Bowl as an example then? Alabama struggled to beat a Texas team with their back up QB and they had more than a month to prepare for it.
Saying that a Saban led team will blow another team out because they have a month to prepare is a false statement and I was just proving that.
In other words...shut the up.
I know, right? It's like, SCREW fair compe ion!! Let a bunch of ing random assholes pick everyone's destiny! Consistent controversy is worth it cause everyone's "talking about the sport more!"...
Interesting unis the two teams played in last night. The Hokies looked like they were playing on Halloween night and the Broncos looked like they had sweat stains with that off-grey color on their jersies. Suffice to say, I like Boise St. and they're penchant on beating the occasional bigger division foes. I would've liked them for the PAC-10 instead of Colorado. But, it was nice to see them come back and complete what was an otherwise splendid first weekend of NCAA football.
BSU's jerseys looked like they were inside out,and Va Tech's jersey's were awesome EXCEPT for the lame ass patterns in the numbers and stripes. What the was that ?! The first thing I thought was Tron
Va Tech's jersey was probably one of the best I've seen. I liked Boise's helmets as well.
the jerseys they were wearing reminds me of that one time Bammer had a month to prepare for the Utes and still lost
I liked Boise's helmets also.
Playoffs are necessary to avoid having to choose between a one loss Bama team and an undefeated Boise St to go to the le game. Let them play it out.
I'm all for it because I don't want a bunch of computers telling me which teams I should play, especially when we have undefeated teams by the end of the season. And we won't have that mess like in 2003 where we had 2 champions (LSU and USC)
if there were a playoffs, or even a provisional +1 game, BSU would have ended the 06 and 09 seasons with a loss. and no one would give a about them right now, because they'd be just another Cinderella that came up short.
I'll take a Fiesta bowl win over a playoff loss every single time. and if BSU is ever actually good enough to win a NCG, and they show it with their schedule, the BCS will put them there
you want Football to be like basketball? where Cinderellas always fail and no one watches the regular season?
the BCS formula does what it's supposed to, it makes the entire season a playoffs, and rarely gets the top teams wrong, though this year it might.
And the BCS bowls do what they're supposed to do, they give all the teams besides Texas, OU, Florida, Bama, Ohio State, etc. something to play for, and provide for some good old conference rivalry.
THE SYSTEM WORKS! just might need a little tweaking, like greater emphasis on SoS, and perhaps putting the AP poll in the formula in place of, or averaged with the coaches poll.
Me too, asshat.
As long as they remain in a weak conference, the BCS will never put them there.
Why do you assume you would have a playoff loss every single time?
You mean the same way nobody watched regular season NFL or high school games?you want Football to be like basketball? where Cinderellas always fail and no one watches the regular season?
Exactly. It's flawed so it needs to be fixed.the BCS formula does what it's supposed to, it makes the entire season a playoffs, and rarely gets the top teams wrong, though this year it might.
A non-championship BCS bowl is still nothing more than an exhibition game with no meaning.And the BCS bowls do what they're supposed to do, they give all the teams besides Texas, OU, Florida, Bama, Ohio State, etc. something to play for, and provide for some good old conference rivalry.
You just admitted above that it doesn't always work.THE SYSTEM WORKS! just might need a little tweaking, like greater emphasis on SoS, and perhaps putting the AP poll in the formula in place of, or averaged with the coaches poll.
There's so much wrong with this. The point in sports isn't letting everyone end with happy feelings. It's supposed to be about compe ion. Was I happy when Texas won the Fiesta Bowl in 2008? Considering I thought they would've lost to Florida, damn right. But it's about principle. A win in what would be a playoff could still be considered a great achievement. You're pretty much admitting that the BCS is a charity case and you're OK with that
College basketball is where it's at as far as popularity because it is college BASKETBALL. Except for the east coast big cities where they don't have a team to root for, college football is America's game and nothing would change that.
Tell that to the Auburn team in 2004, and the Texas team in 2008, and the Utah team in 2008, and Boise and TCU last year. You say that if BSU is ever good enough and their schedule shows it the BCS will put them there, but what if there's always 2 better looking schools from power conferences? Good luck getting your chance
it might (mistakenly) happen this yearIts not hard to see vast talent gap between BSU and the likes of Florida and Texas, the only reason BSU has beaten teams like Oklahoma, TCU, and Va Tech, is that none of those teams had a good passing QB, and their only offensive strategy was to try and run over and out-athlete their opponents, this was a significant weaknesses that BSU preyed on, and still it took mistakes and luck for BSU to BARELY win those games.
if you can't see that BSU has no chance to beat the true elites then you just aren't watching College football real close
when you consider how many more teams there are in college, and how many more games there are that people care about, it should be obvious that college football has the much more successful regular season, the NFL gets the nation to watch a few big games every week involving the top teams, college football gets lots of people to watch lots and lots of games involving lots of irrelevant teams.
with a playoff system, depending on how many teams get in, regular season viewership would drop substantially.
also, with a playoff, teams like Florida and Texas, actually all the AQ teams would have even less incentive to schedule quality OoC opponents, cause they're in with 0 or 1 loss, no matter how easy their schedule, no need to impress anyone or get beat up before the playoffs flawed in that it's to easy for a non-AQ with a pathetic schedule to reach the le game, easy fixyeah it's amazing anyone even watches those BCS bowlsno, only that is has a specific, correctable error
you still get your champion, your compe ion, the BCS finds the 1 and 2 teams, if you're team was #3 you lost, you came up short, you failed.
you have the freedom to view the other bowl games however you want, you can consider a Fiesta Bowl win as nothing more than failure, in which case, your team should have performed better in the regular season, no one's making you watch or feel happy for the winners of the other bowls, maybe it is just a charity, but that doesn't take anything away from the NCG and what leads up to itI can guarantee you that more people would tune into regular season NCAABB games if they actually mattered, and fewer people would tune into college football games with a playoff because fewer games would effect your team's BCS/ le hopes, as long as you win your (easier) schedule, you get in the playoffs, who cares what the other conferences or Cinderellas are doing, it doesn't effect you any more
that's how it works, that's the intriguing risk/reward factor of scheduling, schedule tough enough to look better than the other team(s) but not so tough that you give yourself an extra loss.
I shed no tears for any of the teams you mentioned, none of them were the best team in college football, they all controlled their own destiny.
Have you ever wondered why most sports have a playoff system? There's a reason why they implement it. It gives everyone a fair chance to be #1 and they'll be less what ifs.
...says a bunch of voters and computers
They did more than control their own destiny, they won all their games!! How much more control can you get?! Except of course for the 2008 Texas, which had one loss like the two teams playing for the NC
scheduling
Playoffs makes too much sense not to happen eventually--that's why we're just going to around a few more years, laugh in your faces, and make more money in the meantime.
Sincerely,
the BCS
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