Hmm tell me something we don't know already.... :? http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-wetzel_football_hostage_illegitimate_bcs_112911
I've put in over 42 hours work in the last 48 hours... It's now bedtime for Bonzo. Actually it was 24 hours ago. Maybe that is the reason for my spaced out last post. 8)
Even a 16 team playoff would be a lottery of who won home field advantage and who was the luckiest with injuries. I could also see a 9-3 team getting healthy at the end of the season.......getting a few breaks in who they played in the playoff and then being annointed the "best" team in the land for "surviving" the playoffs rather than thriving in the playoffs while a 13-0 team that thrived and performed during the regular season met with a tough break in the playoffs and it's entire body of work negated by one game. Many of those factors exist today also with the BCS but at least the body of work for the season is counted heavily toward who gets to play in the final. My stance is that playoffs sound cool....and sometimes maybe the best team indeed would be standing but not necessarily so and not as often as the Super Bowl provides for in the NFL......although the NFL has it's share of Giants-Pats upsets as well in the playoffs.
Once again, Div I football is the only organized football league that does not have a playoff? The only one! It works for every other organization. :shock:
Of course it does, because it provides teams that - through their efforts on the field - have earned the right to have the opportunity to compete for the championship on the field. The great tragedy of the debacle that we have today only in FBS college football, is that teams that have proven themselves on the field of play worthy of having the opportunity to compete are denied that opportunity....that in my views trumps all other concerns. Frankly, I don't think they would give a flip where they are seeded, so long as they can play.....ask them. Would you rather be a lower seed and potentially have to play on the road for a shot at the championship or........not have any chance at all. Really? It's absurd.
Good description of how the BCS selection process works. The problem is that it is a very selective process that only includes the top two teams. Teams that stepped on their wang one too many times without some serious atonement want a second chance. The BCS....as does a playoff system....does not allow those second chances.
Nonsense.....the failure of the BCS is that it often prevents teams worthy of an opportunity from having any opportunity at all and uses a popularity contest instead of competition as the determining factor. No amount of spin can change those fundamental and fatal flaws imo
And how would playoff invitations be detrermined and how many teams would be left out that were deserving of an invite? How wrong would it be for Alabama to play at Michigan in mid-December when the game time temp was 10 degrees? Who and why would it be determined the game should be in Ann Arbor?
so what you're really worried about is southern teams having to go play in the north? Also, BuckT and KP pretty much cover my opinions on the subject. Further, I've been saying this for years now.. Wetzel is the best coverage on what's wrong with college football.
Gip is right, the Pro's seem to play more games in the north in bad weather during the playoffs than they do in warm weather or domed sites. Look at all the NE games that have been played in cold and snow, same for the Giants, Eagles, Bears, Packers, etc. College Playoffs in other divisions also play in the north, I remember watching a 1AA game in Montana one year and it was just awful conditions and they were playing a Sam Houston State team from just north of Houston. It's not all about good weather. Heck look at all those essentially home games that Miami played in the Orange Bowl and USC has played in the Rose Bowl. Not surprising that they both have great records in those games.
NFL teams are more prepared.....have more practices for all kinds of adversity but Tampa Bay.....until the year they won the Super Bowl......had lost something like 14 playoff games in a row played in temps below 32 degrees. Actually a team like this year's Bama would probably do OK in sub-freezing temperatures.....more so than LSU would. The point I am making is that the BCS tries to take the two best teams......is very conscious of doing so.....gives them 6 weeks to get healthy and in top form......and let's them play on a neutral site with good weather. I like my chances that I am going to see the best team win the BCS Championship......in more years than not over a playoff format.
Silly me, I thought we were talking about a playoff system not one championship game. I guess we could preschedule all the college playoff games in say Jacksonville, Birmingham, and Baton Rouge. Probably get nice weather and no team would have any advantage. :roll:
I do believe that. And when you ask yourself honestly.....with all of the information available to you who would you say are the two best teams you have seen this year....teams mind you.....not best offense.....what two teams would you come up with. My two best teams would be LSU and the team that damned near beat them....Alabama. What about the rest of you?