There's nothing wrong with the system as it stands now. Until ALL conferences have a CCG, then you can't say you have to win your conference to be eligible.
To say the number 1 team in the human polls automatically gets a bid does away with the entire regular season as evidenced by this years polls. They penalize you for WHEN you lose, not that you lose. The computers don't care when you lose- a loss is a loss.
The problem is that there are a group of people who don't want to play by the rules. They have the attitude of " It's my ball and if you don't do what I want, I'll take it and go home".
As I said in a previous post, if the AP wants to be part of the system for choosing the BCSCG participants, then they should be required to follow the rules. If not, then take their poll, keep it separate and then they can do what they want.



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2003 SEC AND NATIONAL CHAMPS!!!!



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The sportswriters have clearly shown that they are too easily influenced by region,popular concensus or even team colors. I find it hard to believe that with what is at stake at the end of a football season a sportswriter with a newspaper in Conneticut,who probably only watched 2 college games all year would have a vote. I think they give to much credit to sportswriters and assume they all have integrity and knowledge of the game. In the short amount of time I have been reading this board I( I wandered around other boards all season )am very impressed with the knowledge displayed by the vast majority of posters. The bottom line is human voters are too easily corrupted and therefore it would be a huge mistake to give them more power. Also,I realize a computer program is only as good as the human who programed it,but if properly programed at least a computer will not listen to Trev and his boyfriends at the end of a season.

While not publishing polls until later in the season seems like a good idea it will never happen. Football fans buy millions of dollars worth of preseason magazines predicting the teams chances for the upcoming season and fans eagerly await the preseason polls. As long as there is such huge interest in the polls they will continue to be published in the preseason and each week of the season beginning with week 1. I have to admit that after each LSU win the first thing I wanted to know was how the Tigers were ranked. The problem is not the polls themselves but the knowledge and integrety or lack of knowledge and integrety of the human beings who vote in the polls. One AP voter even voted LSU #3 after the Sugar Bowl. He is either a complete idiot or more likely was trying to promote some agenda of his own by dissing the Tigers. Some of the things I have read in the last few days on the internet written by people who have an AP vote display a complete lack of knowledge that the game of football even exists anywhere east of LA.

I wonder how many sportswriters will be taking all expense paid trips with their familys out west this year. This is not paranoia talking. The "good ole boy's network"may have been invented in Louisiana but I assure you it is alive and well in the media.

Conference Champions

I doubt the BCS will contractually exclude non-champions from the title game as long as Notre Dame is in the mix. They are overlooked this year, but as long as the Irish are an independent and a founding memeber of the BCS, the requirement won't change. If you require a team to be a conference champion, ND can't go. If you write the rule to specifically allow ND, then they have an advantage other teams, like Tennessee in the first example, can't have. Based on ND signing their recent contract with NBC, I doubt they're headed to the Big1T1en any time soon.

I happen to think the numbers worked fine this year. The polls are biased one way, the computers another. Strength of Schedule has a due, but not one that overlooks winning. I saw someone extending the subtraction for quality wins to #20 by using the next decimal--I think that's a good idea. But overall, the system was straight foward enough. Nothing will ever be perfect, even a playoff. And the sportswriters will never get it anyway--they are always more impressed by offense even while they say "defense wins championships".

I'm satisfied.

GEAUX TIGERS--2003 National Champions