Should BCS stand for Bull Crap System?
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New ranks out Sunday. USC wins big and passes Mich. for #2.
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Assuming Michigan loses to Ohio St. there should only be two logical answers to this question.\n1. Michigan has an argument as the best 1 loss team in the country. Unfortunately for them, there loss comes to late in the season for it to really matter. The human polls drop them to far for them to stay at #2 in the BCS and they go play in the Rose Bowl.\n2. Texas. The only other 1 loss team whose only loss was to the #1 team in the country. The loss was early in the year with a freshman quarterback in his second college start. If you want to argue that the Big 12 is weak this year then go ahead but Texas will have beaten 3 maybe 4 Top 25 teams by the end of the year. If the BSC is logical at all what we get is:\n\nThe Texas/Ohio St rematch in the desert for all the marbles.\n\nHook'em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nColt's not a freshman anymore.
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Even if D1-A adopted a playoff system, people would still complain about WHICH 8 (or however many) teams should be in it... you KNOW that fans of the #9 team would claim THEY should be in it instead of #7, because #9 beat #7 early in the season.\n\nPlus, a playoff makes it LESS likely we'd see the two best teams in the championship game, not more likely....the more playoff games you have, the greater the chance for an upset... this year is the exception, but the BCS has be correct more often than not.  It just SEEMS like it hasn't because all fans have their biases.\n\nI'd love to see the top 4 college basketball teams play in the final four...but it's NEVER happened... why do fans and sportswriters supposedly love stories like George Mason getting to the final four? Who wants to watch THAT? I wasn't happy they got there last year....I want to see the #1 seeds from each bracket play in the final four....but because of having so many rounds, it's something we'll most likely never see.\n\nIt's the same with football... an 8 team field would just about guarantee that we wouldn't see the top two teams. And who decides which 8 teams get there?
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Florida coach Urban Meyer has recently come out and complained about the BCS because of rewarding "style points" rather than solid victories over REAL football teams in "tough conferences" (i.e. the all-powerful SEC).\n\nI'm tired of SEC teams justifying their imperfect records by falling back on, "Well, we're in the SEC."\n\nHere's an eye-opener:  If you reference the mean (i.e. "average") ranking of all 119 1-A football teams, the average ranking of the SEC is 35 - and the average ranking of the Pac-10 is 37.  Certainly no one walks around championing the Pac-10 as "the toughest conference", even though their strength is statistically equivalent to the SEC.\n\nUsing the same source, we see that the average ranking of every team USC has beaten is 35; the average ranking of every team Florida has beaten is 44.  Yet, somehow, Florida deserves more than the rest of us because, "they're in the SEC."\n\nIt is a tough conference, but it's program "prestige", not the raw numbers, that have people bowing down to the SEC.\n\nStop the complaints and let the games speak for themselves.
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i agree that a playoff system is needed because it forces a stronger method of determining a champion.\n\nhowever, what will the playoff system be determined on?  RANKINGS!  which are based on the AP, USA Today and Harris polls.  Isn't that what we have now?\n\nAre people going to still cry during the season when their teams aren't ranked a certain number and then get seeded in an unfavorable way?  Just a thought...
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The other folks answered your question based upon how the BCS works, so I cannot argue with their statements. However, I agree with what you are saying. Florida barely won against an unranked team, yet kept their position at #4.\nTwice this season, Notre Dame barely won, but they actually dropped both times (MSU and UCLA). Thus, Florida should have dropped b/c they barely can beat an unranked opponent, and that would have allowed Ark to move up more.
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Under the current BCS system, it certainly appears USC is on their way for the title. Since the season started with the BCS system, I wouldn't change it now. #1 and #2 should play to determine who the champion is.\n\nThat said, some conferences are weaker than others. The SEC is such a tough and competitive conference, nearly anyone is able to compete with a ranked team. Just look at UGA, Auburn, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc that were all ranked in the top 10 to fall to another SEC team. I personally favor a playoff system where any undefeated team and each of the conference champions enter into a win/lose bracket. That way it is "put up or shut up" time and no more controversy about which conferences tend to be more favored.
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As usual, the winners will be the big conferences.  The losers will be the fans of college football.\n\nHopefully the new BCS chamionship game will be the first step towards establishing a playoff system.
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Yes, it is time for a playoff! Use BCS to rank teams based on record against strength of schedule, then have them seeded 1-16 for a playoff using BCS bowl game sites.
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My preference is no.  But if they win out the UWV - UL looser on Thursday this week will fall out of the top 8 in the BCS thus allowing Notre Dame in.  I am pretty sure they have a special BCS deal that they only need to crack the BCS top 8 to get the bid to one of the BCS bowls.
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If they win out then they should. They are in a BCS confrence(Big East) and get a BCS game automatically if they win out as they would be the Champions. Now you could say that Boise State doesn't really deserve it as they aren't in a BCS Confrence, which implies they aren't in tough division and besides they have no chance because the BCS will never allow a non-BCS team in the title game.\n\nYeah right Rutgers doesn't stand a chance. That's what you THINK. That is what PAPER says. That is WHY WE PLAY THE GAME. On paper Arizona wouldn't have nearly beat Chicago, let alone dominated them in the first half. On paper we wouldn't have had Green screaming The Bears are who we thought they were. On paper the Dolphins proably would have lost that game instead of basically dominating. That's why the game is PLAYED. It happens at the College level as well.
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The Answer lies within!\n\nThe BCS determines who plays for the championship. It only determines who the best 2 teams are. It doesn't take into account who has played who already this year! \n\nI am a Michigan fan, and I would like to see them win the National Championship, but I will say this:\n\n"It cannot work out"\n\nIf Michigan rematches and wins, then they are champions? How? They split, it sounds like game 3 to me, you cannot crown Michigan because they won the right game!\n\nBCS says the 2 best teams will play, I challenge you to give me a better team than Michigan not named Ohio State!\n\nNotre Dame is a no! USC I am not impressed with, but if they win out they deserve a shot! If Arkansas or Florida win out (they play each other 12-2) they deserve a shot also.\n\nIt comes down to this whether they win the Championship or not Ohio State is the best team in the country! It hurts to say it, but it is true.
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The BCS formula isn't that consistent.  The "VOTES" are part of the formula.
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Anything would be better then the BCS system.  Right now there are many teams that could win the national championship but wont even get to play for a chance.  Atleast with a playoff system you could have more games and be sure the right team makes the finals.
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Not the BCS but the closest I could find. \nhttp://www.collegefootballpoll.com/current_congrove_rankings.html
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Sounds good to me. Or to appease the NCAA buttheads that created the BCS, use the BCS to rank teams based on their record against strength of schedule. This way, only the best of the best make the playoff and the other bowls wouldn't be screwed out of their tie-ins with the conferences unless those tie-ins belonged to teams who finished in the top 16.
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yeah, a playoff system would definitely be better than the BCS.  One of the big objections to doing away w/ the BCS would be the history behind all the bowl games.  so why not name the different playoff games for the bowl games.  that's the best option ;)