Nightmare for the Selection Committee

Was a compliment. Take it for what it's worth. I had to gargle some bleach...

Bama, for many good reasons are the gold standard in college football. To protect that, why would you want any more playoff competition than what is there? Same goes for us, if we are in the top 4, who would want to add yet, another game to achieve a national title? I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

 

What if LSU is 5,6,7 or 8?

 

Great point

 

I've yet to see anyone take their reasoning about not expanding from more than four to that length. I've certainly not thought about that "what if" scenario.

Heck, as I see this whole thing the BCS damaged what bowl games meant (as well as the number of them) and this playoff has done just as much damage, if not more.

 

I actually liked the BCS. It worked.

It's job each year was to take 2 teams (out of 3-5 deserving teams) and choose the best 2, or 2 most deserving, etc and put them against each other in national championship game.

And the regular season mattered because there were big games where #1 or #2 got upset, or narrowly escaped.

If you'll remember the old system -- winner of this conference went to this bowl game regardless of rank. You could end a season with 2 National Champions.

Over the course of the BCS, there were really 3 or 4 years where there was a REAL arguement between teams# 2 and #3.

And I think the only season the BCS got it wrong was in 2004, with Auburn. But OU and USC were #1 and #2 all year and never lost. Auburn won several of their games by a narrow margin and voters weren't impressed enough to jump them to #1 or #2. Hindsight tells us they got it wrong that year.

But in 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2011... there were legit arguments about #2 and #3.

Otherwise, the BCS was a system that did it's job.

 

This new system -- just had to pick 4 teams to go into a playoff with 6 deserving teams.

And again, because the Big 12 can't decide what it wants to be when it grows up, neither team was chosen.

So we got 4 conference champs. And Thank God Mis State didn't beat Ole Miss.

 

If M State had beaten Ole Miss they would have been the most deserving team for the #4 spot in the playoffs. Much better body of work than Baylor, TCU or Ohio State.

 

I'd like to see them scrap the weekly poll thing. Keep it secret and we find out who the 4 are at the end of the year.

 

After this years fiasco they might do it. I like knowing what the rankings are from week to week even if they don't mean anything in the end