Your third team played a conference champion when they shouldn't haven't even been in a BCS game and it showed. This is what is wrong with the BCS!
Wasn't Illinois the second best team in the Big Ten, after OSU? I thought that the matchup in the RoseBowl was between the conference champions of the Big Ten and the Pac-10, but with OSU playing for the NC, Illinois then took that spot. That would make Michigan the third best team in the Big Ten, but they ended up dominating Florida. Without all those turnovers, Michigan would have crushed Florida by twenty points.
Georgia, just like USCw, played the team that the BCS chose for them to play. I say we congratulate UGA and USCw for destroying those teams like they were supposed to. I support a playoff system for college football, but I also understand that it would be hard to do, and would definately take away from the meaning of the regular season... Here's my point: Let's say tOSU was 10-1 going into their lat reg season game vs Michigan and they've already locked up the conference championship and a playoff spot. If they have some banged up players, the HC for tOSU would rest a few of those guys w/ hopes of making a run at the national championship, thus hurting his chances of beating UM. I don't think the fans would appreciate that at all. If you don't believe me, what do teams in the NFL do on the last week of the season. The above arguement would affect Auburn-Alabama, USC-UCLA, and any other major rivalry played at the end of the season. I do think a playoff would work if there were a few weeks off for finals, rest, etc. Or a plus 1 would work too. I prefer selecting the top 4 teams at the end of the season/ conf champ games, and matching them 1 vs 4, and 2 vs 3. In this scenario, 3 of the BCS games could be a part of the playoff each year, and the other bowl site could still host 2 top 10 teams for its game. :crystal: :champs: :crystal: :champs: :crystal:
Maybe its the fact that being an OSU fan, Im afraid to adopt change...I mean look at our failure to embrace the spread. I just fear adding playoffs would hinder the excitment of a regular season like this year's. I like LSU, but there's no way in hell i'd watch your games this year in the same light if I knew, despite a lose, you could makeup for it in playoffs (in fact, i probably wouldnt watch them at all). The stakes would be lower, conference games would mean less, and your ability to be a consistently good football team (stanford really?) would be irrelevant. Plus, isnt it cool that CFB isnt exactly like every other sport? Offers some intrigue I think.
They could easily force them...all they'd have to do would be to schedule either one of the 4 team playoff games or the final the same time slot as the Rose bowl...who do you think the viewing public is going to watch?
The current system rewards teams for how the played a year earlier by being overly reliant upon preseason rankings. A playoff would reward teams for how they are playing at the back end of the current season...which is, afterall, what we're trying to determine - the best team in the current year.
ummmmmmm, maybe it's about TV market share, advertising revenue.... you know..... money. just a wild guess.
Thaaat point I will definatley agree with you about. Preseason polls should be done away with. They should wait 2 weeks. No question 'bout it.
No, last thing it has to do with is money. (hey there's no rolling eye's smiley on LSU's board...perhaps sarcasm is an art lost on southerners?)
Some college fans and blogs are already spearheading a movement to boycott this BCS bowl game in order to try to bring pressure for a playoff system.
