Why does college football still use the ridiculous bcs system?
965523
Beats the old way for now.
862814
Any way you structure it will still be criticized, I think the most exciting whould be an 8 team tourney (the eight BCS teams) but who knows. BCS is a crock of crap. It would help alot if you had large schools play large schools out of conference. More ohio state v. Texas and ND vs USC match ups, that would lead to less unbeaten teams.
767759
Yeah, there are differences in the rules between college football and the National Football League, especially in how game time is managed.\n\nA rule change this year in the college game, starting the gameclock when the ball is placed in position on the line of scrimmage is getting lots of complaints from all sides, with alot of teams getting surprised, looking up and seeing the clock running, when it wasn't last year.  \nIt is intended to quicken the game, since now, "official reviews" of the accuracy of previous plays often takes up time, but never, never game-time.  \nIt's riduculous, if you ask me, for this rule change.  \nAnd as for differences in the game rules which seem to benefit Professional players, hey--it is only because now they are just older, slower, and puffing Oxygen more!\n\nPlus, did you ever realize that everyone of those guys on the field, each Sunday, is a Millionaire?  DIFFERENT Rules for the rich, that's what it is, since they can't have rules which might make them lose $$$...!\n\nDat's all, man, that it is.  Different rulz for the old rich farts.\n(and now a word from our sponser....)
952057
the NFL game is far too quick for any college team to compete against even the lowest of the NFL
817462
OSU won't play Boise State in the title game for the same reason BCS teams won't play Boise State during the regular season: They're afraid Boise State might win.\n\nBCS teams will only play two types of teams in the regular season:\n1) Weak teams they can beat easily.  \n2) Strong teams that they can afford to lose to.\n\nWeak teams?  Yeah, right: OSU barely beat Illinois (2-10) by 17-10; Michigan didn't exactly dominate Penn State (8-4) 17-10, Iowa (6-6) 20-6, or Northwestern (4-8) 17-3; and USC, supposedly #2, LOST to Oregon State (8-4) 33-31, a team which also LOST to Boise State, 42-12.  USC also put in three consecutive mediocre efforts again Arizona and the two Washington teams.  The feeble argument of BCS schools is that they are "superior" to Boise State and "don't need to play them".  That smells like they're in fear rather than inferiority.\n\nStrong teams?  By losing to OSU 42-39, Michigan dropped in the rankings, but not by much; if Michigan beat Boise State 42-39, they would suffer worse in the rankings than by losing to OSU.  It's sort of like the ranking system in chess, your result AND quality of opponent determine your ranking.\n\nSure, Boise State has only a slim chance of beating OSU (10%, I'd say) but that's enough to scare away any BCS team: If Boise State won (or even if they lost to OSU by 24-21), then Boise State would gain two things.\n\n1) Credibility, proof that they are a major program.  By gaining credibility, BCS teams couldn't run away from them anymore.  The BCS schools have ALL avoided the so-called "mid-major" programs - Boise State, Louisville, West Virginia, Hawaii, Houston and BYU - for the same reason: the risk of losing.  Fresno State was the only "mid-major" to play a BCS team this year, and that's because Fresno State HAS credibility: it was Fresno State that destroyed USC's national title hopes in 1992.  Since then, the "top" teams have been petrified of anyone who could surprise them.\n\n2) Money.  Playing in the Fiesta Bowl, Boise State will get US$3million; all the other BCS teams are getting at least twice that much.  (The little children don't want to share their toys....)  A playoff system and/or any system that permits teams from outside the six prissy-ACCed conferences scares them.  They want the money for themselves; if Boise State actually beat Texas, Oklahoma, or whomever they play, watch for the BCS to change and make it tougher for "mid-major" schools to get in.\n\n\nI forgot to mention it: To all those who whine "Boise State has a weak schedule", kindly explain why, when Boise State ASKS to play BCS teams, the BCS teams refuse.  \n\nBoise State WANTS a strong schedule, but the teams they need to play to have a strong schedule run away from them.  HOW, exactly, is the cowardice of BCS teams the fault of Boise State?  Don't say their schedule is weak when nobody strong wants to play them.\n\n\n.
763910
I don't think any conference should get an automatic bid to the BCS. It should come purely off the BCS rankings.
931285
They sure do. I use to think they should have a 4 team playoff, where the final game would be played during the bye-week before the Superbowl. But in a year like this, how could you even pick 4 teams let alone 2? Ohio State is a clear #1. But deciding between Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, Arkansas, West Virginia, etc for the other 3 spots would be just as hard. It must go to an 8 team playoff. The disparity between 1 and 8 is great enough where teams sitting outside of the 8 selected teams wouldn't have much to gripe about. \n\nOnly two things are standing in the way: money (which could be resolved through a revenue sharing system) and time (remember these guys are students and need time for school).
867011
they have made some changes, but I agree the bcs system does suck.
759326
This is sure showing that the BCS rankings need some work to get the top colleges to play the national champ game.... and it is showing that a playoff system might be the best way to go... I do not know how that will work (top 8 teams in playoffs perhaps?), but you are right something needs to be done...
697105
16 team format with the higher ranked teams having the home game for first round games.  After its down to eight you use pre existing bowls to hold the remaining games.\n\nConference champions from the Big 6 should get automatic bids the rest of them are seeded according to current BCS formatting, if a conference champion isnt in the top 16 then they get the 16th seed in the playoff.  Payouts for conferences can follow the same formula they use now for bowl games with very little modification.
394175
It's been there forever for a reason. If two teams keep playing so well defensively the game can go on for hours. And players cannot handle that kinda length of game. It's alot more tiring than basketball or football. \n\nI think it's the quickest, most efficient, and most memorable way to end games.
900597
Seriously, I don't know; but it sure is ugly! The only thing that I can possibly think of a al USC v Texas in last season's title match is someone up in the booth had to have had money on the game.\n\nI feel that college football needs to do something to try and get some validity back into its game. You have a great question. Here goes:\n\nThere must be an on-the-spot panel of 3 to 5 referees in the booth. Any disputable call, or any call for that matter should be viewed from mutiple angles. The game is far to fast on the field for these referees; however, I don't believe that that's the problem. \n\nThe problem lies in the gumption or gonads of the appealing referees. No one wants to rescind a call.\n\nNow, on "agressive" penalties where the outcome (or score) is in question then they must rule. On "non agressive" penalties the refs on the field can handle it.\n\nPro ball has the clause: "Indisputable evidence" that just about guarentees if it's obvious it's coming back. College on the other hand needs to develop more field cameras, overhead cameras, and a bigger panel of "Booth" referees rather than in most cases it's one man.\n\nI am a referee.
887862
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.
40791
It is a combination of human polls (coaches' poll and Harris poll) and several computer rankings.  The human polls count for two-thirds of a team's BCS rating, and the computer polls account for the other third.  At the end of the regular season and conference championship games, the teams ranked 1 and 2 play with the winner being declared the BCS champion.\n\nAs for participation in the other BCS bowls, that is determined by conference champions and wild card selections.  The champions of the Big East, Big 10, SEC, ACC, Big 12, and Pac 10 get automatic bids to the BCS.  This leaves 2 spots open for wild card selections.  Now, if a team is rated in the top 6 in the BCS, they automatically qualify.  If the conference champions make up the top 5 or 6 teams, then the BCS bowls themselves select who they want to play.\n\nWho plays in which BCS bowl is, for the most part, determined by the bowls themselves.  The 4 BCS bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Fiesta) rotate as to which one is the BCS championship game (1 vs. 2).  Participation in the other bowls is determined by the bowls themselves, but there is a predilection towards certain bowls selecting the champion of certain conferences.  For example, the Rose Bowl, when it is not the BCS championship game, usually takes the champions of the Big 10 and Pac 10.  This is because those are the teams that historically played in that bowl before there ever was a BCS.  Also, the SEC champion usually plays in the Sugar Bowl (because of history as well).
188075
This *is* the best time of year: "March Madness" speaks for itself, the new baseball season is on the horizon, and it's almost spring!\n\nThe NCAA tournament is better than the professional sports playoffs because you truly never have a clue who's going to win, and the first weekend of the tournament produces some very cool upsets and almost always a buzzer-beater. MLB Playoffs and NFL Playoffs are comparable in excitement level. The NBA Playoffs take too bloody long. \n\nCollege football's bowl season should be a playoff instead, with 32 teams (conference champions and remaining Top 25 teams) playing a 5-week tournament. The BCS is and always has been a joke, and only the national championship game really matters now. Why not have a playoff so that every "bowl" team really has a reason to be there?
730669
The reason for the huge leap (to #6 in the BCS standings) is because 4 top ten teams lost on Saturday... one of them, thanks to Rutgers' own efforts.\n\nAfter RU  beat Louisville on Thursday night, I envisioned them moving to maybe 10th or 11th (they'd been #15), but not much higher, unless some other top 10 teams lost...which they did...Texas, Auburn, Cal and #3 Louisville all lost....\n\nThe way the beat Louisville, coming back from a 25-7 deficit and completely shutting them out in the 2nd half (after giving up 56 points to them last season) impressed enough voters...RU ranked 7th or 8th in the writers and coaches polls this week, and moved up to 6th in the BCS rankings, announced this evening (Sunday).\n\nBut it's mostly because of the loses suffered by the other 3 top ten teams...had they all won, there probably wouldn't be room for Rutgers in the top 10...yet...\n\nbtw, fans of other teams can say whatever they want about who Rutgers plays, but the fact is that the conferences themselves came up with the BCS system... that means Florida had a hand in it, Auburn had a hand in it...all the teams in BCS conferences put this thing together... so those schools have no one but themselves to blame... \n\nThe Florida Gators' next game is against Western Carolina...big deal.\n\nOhio State played Bowling Green earlier.  Michigan played Central Michigan, and barely got by Ball State.\n\nAuburn played Washington State and Buffalo earlier this season.\n\nLSU played Fresno State and Louisiana-Lafayette....\n\nNobody plays top teams every week...every team schedules some cupcake games, you don't hear me complaining about their schedules...\n\nYou play who you play.\n\nSportswriters and fans can talk all they want about a playoff system, but the BCS is what the colleges themselves decided on.  So their complaints fall on deaf ears... Of course I know Rutgers isn't going to play for the national championship this year, but so what?   What difference does it make in anyone's life if their team finishes the season ranked 5th instead of 4th?  \n\nGet a life, people! The college championship has never been decided on the field, it's always determined by sportswriters... the BCS has actually been pretty good at giving us #1 vs. #2 matchups lately in the championship game....they sure got it right last year, with USC and Texas...
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AP Poll is the Associated Press.  Writers of college football who are members of the AP and have met certain criteria are eligible to vote.  It counts for 1/3 of BCS tally.\n\nHarris Poll is a group of fomer players, coaches, writers, businessmen, others who were nominated because they might know something about football begin voting in about the 5th week.  Their poll counts for 1/3 of the BCS tally.\n\nComputer averages.  There are six computer gurus who have assigned formulas and their computers will generate a ranking of all teams. Theses tally's are all taken together (with the high and low score dropped) and they account for 1/3 of the BCS tally.  Each computer has a slightly different formula.  Each computer accounts for strength of schedule.  Some give more credit to a road win or a win against a winning team.  Winning margin is no longer considered in the computer polls.\n\nThe BCS (Bowl Championship Ranking) is revealed for the first time after the 8th week.  It is based on the three polls (AP, Harris, and the computer rankings).  The score will come out as a percentage of total points possible.  Highest percentage is first. \n\nUSA Today poll is not used in any BCS calculation.  The USA Today poll is conducted by current head coaches (or their administrator/designee)--i.e. folks who actually do know the game and teams.