I wouldn't have a problem with that stipulation. Let me ask the board this question on that subject. What about, like the pac10, where there is no Chamionship game and, like this year, you have a co-champ but instead of two losses, would have only have one loss (Say, for example, USC and Cal with only one loss to each other). I guess one of the two could go if the situation warranted it? I know that doesn't apply this year but if we say it has to be a conf. champion, how would you feel about the co-champ from a conference without a champ game?
Some years it hurts, BECAUSE other conferences don't play them. If all the conferences had CG's it would balance it out a little more than it is now.
The only complaint is with the conferences without a Championship game. In the SECCG, Florida's win obviously helped their cause this season. The lack of one is hurting Michigan. It can work both ways. If the SEC didn't have a CG then we are looking at Ohio St/Mich...no debate.
Yep.. Exactly like OU in 2003. :thumb: My view on all of what's happening this year is clouded... I want LSU to play USC in the Rose, but I think if i'm being objective, Florida has made one hell of a case for a shot at the title. I'm glad I'm not the guy that has to tell any of the two programs "no."...
Everyone keeps on saying Meechigan is better than Fla...but who did they play except for OSU? I agreed w/ Islstl, that that game was not as close as the score showed. I think LSU and/or Fla can hang w/ Meechigan. The media keeps on yapping about how we shouldn't penalize a conference for having 2 of the best teams in the country - where was all this love for the SEC when year after year we beat up on one another? Damn media changing their stories to suit their own agenda instead of being neutral...:dis:
And that's my point. The SEC runs the risk with a championship game that (1) some undefeated team could get upset and ruin the chance for the league to have a representative make the BCS Championship or (2) the losing team gets bumped out of BCS "at Large" selection, whereas the Pac10 or Big Ten can get one team to the BCS Championship game or two teams into BCS Bowls because they don't have a conference championship. SEC, ACC and Big 12 fans want the Big Ten, Big East, and PAC10 to have a playoff so they will be at the same DISADVANTAGE, not the same advantage. ... and, therefore, given it is a disadvantage, why would these conferences rush to do it?
OU played a CG...Michigan has not. Or not one in the sense that other conferences have. Who's to say that if Michigan lost to Ohio St in the regular season, met up with them again in a CG they came back and won? THEY would be in the national title game and not Ohio St by reasoning that the conference runner up should be allowed to play in the NCG.
Or a team that doesn't even make it to the CCG and winds up smelling like a "Rose"...or Sugar as the case may be...
what if florida had another loss making michigan the only one loss team at the top. i understand the "they had their chance and proved they were second to ohio state" argument but youre not going to put in a 2 loss team then are you? im not quite sure why(or if i can put it into words) but if there was a playoff and mich-ohio state played again, i think it would be fair but if ohio state had to play michigan again for the BCS title, im not sure that is fair. and it sure as hell isnt fair if a 2-loss team like us goes in there and beats ohio state for the NCCG because that means the whole season of work is worthless for them. i think an 8-team playoff(or 6 with 1 & 2 byes like the NFL) played in neutral sites while the rest of the nation has the bowl games would be the best scenario. #7 or #9 will whine but thats tough, you shouldnt have lost the one or two games that you did. no conference tie-ins, no advantage to teams who travel well and have tradition. the human element is still there and the computer element is still there but like i said, it gives the teams who had the best seasons(probably only one or two losses or none) a chance to duke it out and doenst get rid of the bowl tradition. i say these three playoff rounds be played like first second and fourth saturdays of january unless jan 1 is on a saturday in which case scoot the playoffs back a week.
