maybe he wants a 117 playoff system starting in july. usually the sign of a USL dropout so they also have hope.
Make your case then. I made mine. During a season where you have just 2 undefeateds, and a host of one-loss teams, you don't need a plus-one. And having that extra game creates a ton of problems. Bottom line: Picking the #3 and #4 out of a pool of four one-loss teams is just as arbitrary as picking the #1 and #2 in the current system.
your case is weak at best. to say its imperfect is fine. to say its not better is foolish. make a better case than the plus one and then you have a viable argument. til then, anyone with +1 brain cells can see its better.
Second time you've written that. There are a couple of other ideas for college football postseason that I like, but the plus-one as CFN has written it does not solve much at all, and in some years it creates a problem where there normally would be none.
Some years it would be better. Some years it would be a disaster. Overall the change would not accomplish much.
I have. You don't get it? The fact is, there are never 5 teams vying for the number one spot at the end of the year. It's sometimes 2, usually 3, never four...certainly never 5. There will always be a much weaker, and less-controversial case, for the 5th ranked team to be able to beat 2 teams ranked ahead of them in succession. The difference between the teams that end up 1 & 2 and 5 at season's end is a lot greater than you'd think.
Bottom line is a plus one settles it on the field in 95% of years, while allowing the current financial, traditional, academic, etc system tos tay in place..which is MORE important than the #1 team to the ncaa and universities. SInce the current BCS setup has been in place, the system has FAILED 95% of the time. That is improvement heh. If a 1 loss team makes it to the +1 game and defeats an otherwise undefeated team...so what? Teams get better as the year goes on...the better team won, that is what we're trying to decide. The 'now defeated' loser of the +1 game has no case whatsoever...because it was settled on the field. They LOST to the better team at that time.
That is a well-reasoned post but let's get down to specifics. In the scenario I outlined, which is entirely possible, where USC & Texas both finish the reg season undefeated this year, do you not see how a plus-one would be unnecessary and could cause even more problems?
If they are the best teams, they would win and face each other. If they lose...they LOST. THey have no argument and I seriously doubt either coach would say they belong in the title game after losing their play-in bowl game.
