Take Your BCS Game And Stick It

IMO. They have weapons everywhere, and a defense. Big names/media exposure/highly-touted recruits be damned, they can play against anybody and win.

I looked it up and they do…well unless ND steals the bid from them ;-)

In fact, since the changes to the conferences, the ACC champion – not the Big East champion – has been the lowest ranked automatic qualifier three out of four times. The Big East champ has won its bowl game three out of four times.

You guys need a better PR agent. This guy just isn’t cutting it:

and demand that I be referred to as Bergwood. And if that’s wrong I don’t wanna be right

Mike you have been called out

This is why I shouldn’t reply to these things first thing in the morning…

2 very different situations.

your first is OSU “sneaking” in over undefeated (but not really that good) Boise St, who then went on to lose to TCU anyway. That’s the way of the system, though. There’s a reason there are so called 6 BCS conferences, and 5 mid-major conferences. Is it fair? Probably not, but OSU was still probably a better team than Boise St. last year.

That’s moo, though, since this year the situation would be Penn State sneaking over Iowa, who has the same record, but holds the head to head matchup. I agree that Iowa deserves the bid, but there are somewhat legitimate reasons for putting PSU ahead of Iowa, such as the same record, but no losses to “bad” teams.

Iowa wouldn’t be sneaking in over anyone if they get the pick. I would put money that both TCU and Boise St are going to the BCS this year.

Which is why every WAC official imaginable will be on the first plane to DC to begin anti-trust hearings if Boise State isn’t selected as an at-large.

I think you’re right. In that case, there isn’t even the money to play for in the BCS. More reason to say “forget it!”

any debate could rage on for months around here…and if it stops, RR will argue with himself until someone else picks up again.

and we’re no better SOS wise (though I’d argue our conference is as a whole better), I’m just saying to keep the “they look really good” in context, but I lack respect for Floribama for more than just their schedules, haha.

Honestly there is no deserving team of the NC this year. Everyone has looked bad from what I’ve seen of them.

Florida, Bama , and TX have all almost blown it to “far” inferior talent (each of them almost blew it twice!). Texas’ defense is abysmal, as seen in the A&M game. Florida has Tebow, who has been hyped to death, and has been average at best this year.

TCU and Boise have played ridiculously easy schedules, and are getting credit for being undefeated when they’re, for the most part, untested.

Cinci’s defense is HORRIBLE, and they’ll be lucky if they squeak past Pitt (If you give up 36 points to the Zookers, you have a serious problem on defense…or Good Juice made an extremely rare appearance, like an extinct animal suddenly being captured on video).

Oregon looked horrible against Boise, but has destroyed everyone else except Stanford (and btw, after watching the ND game, I really think Gerhart should win the Heisman, even though ND’s defense sucks).

Ohio State we all know has major issues and should probably be pissing themselves over the thought of playing Oregon in the Rose Bowl after what they did to USC. Iowa’s defense is without a doubt one of the best in the country, but probably wouldn’t even be in the top 25 if their defense didn’t bail them out in games they should have clearly blown out their opponents in (see: Northern Iowa, Arkansas State, scUM, and Sparty). And we all know PSU’s problems already.

And Georgia Tech’s defense is also abysmal. That’s the top 11 teams in the BCS rankings, I’d go further, but it’s pretty much further downhill from there, so like I said, and my point being, no one looks like a championship team this year.

TCU today sounds exactly what PSU was in 1969, among some other years. Back before words like National Perception and Sexiness became part of the college football vernacular.

Ever since Boise beat Oklahoma by one point in OT in the 2006 Fiesta (OK, btw, was 10-2 that year in the reg season, and as we all know, anyone with a halfway competent defense can beat a N12 team, and a halfway decent offense can score on their defense), we’ve had non-BCS teams being reluctantly voted into top spots in the polls. I say reluctantly not as an insult, but because I think, like myself, the human voters are a little skeptical of how good these teams are because they are playing mediocre competition.

Remember Hawaii from 2007? They were undefeated, playing in the same conference as Boise was, they were held back in the polls all year, and finally scratched the surface of the top ten in the last poll of the year. They made it to the Sugar Bowl and were DESTROYED by Georgia.

I truly don’t mean to disrespect the accomplishment of a team going undefeated, as we all know from last year, it is EXTREMELY difficult no matter where or who you’re playing. But in the past few years there have been fluctuations in how strong these non-BCS teams are like the Hawaii example, or when Boise or TCU would drop a conference game to a bad conference team, so at what point do you say, “Despite your weak schedule, we’re willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re good enough to play for the MNC”? 12-0? That’s what Hawaii was. So was Boise last year before playing TCU (who was 10-2) in the Poinsettia bowl.

Utah got shafted last year, and I have absolutely no hesitations in saying that. They were one of the top teams in the nation, and proved it when they beat Bama, but hindsight is 20/20. Before that bowl game, they played at Michigan and barely won, 25-23, then played OrSU later, and also squeaked out a win, 31-28, but pretty much dominated the rest of their schedule. Now, if I were a voter looking at where to put a team that almost lost to a 3-9 Michigan team, and an 8-4 OrSU, I probably would have been just as skeptical about putting them in the MNC game as the voters were last year.

Honestly, I hope TCU plays the loser of Floribama in the Sugar Bowl and beats them. If that happens, I can assure you, I will be far less skeptical of their being undefeated if they beat a top-5 ranked BCS conference team for the second year in a row, but until then, I can’t stop myself from doubting their legitimacy.

I’m really not trying to be a douchea about these teams, I respect the fact that they’re undefeated, but I can’t judge how good these teams are until they play higher level competition, which they have been very far from doing during the conference season, aside from Oregon for Boise and a mediocre Clemson for TCU. And this isn’t some, “Penn State is totally more deserving than a TCU or Boise is” argument. I’m arguing whether or not TCU or Boise is good enough to be voted in to play in the MNC. I honestly don’t know what the measuring stick is for determining how legit your team is. I guess that really emphasizes the need for a playoff.

It’s not fair to name that award after Weis. He would have had to beat them consistently to earn that

QUIET CAIRO OR CURLEY WILL SCHEDULE BUFFALO FOR AN UPCOMING SEASON TO PUMP UP THE RECORD!!!

I still think 11 conference champs and 5 at large (max 2 teams per conference) would work fairly well. That still likely puts most of the top 2 teams from the BCS conferences in unless there were a lot of really good mid major conference teams in a given year, along with a down year for the big conferences.

are you forcing the Independents to join a conference? Or will there be an extra consideration for them? (i.e. top Indy goes, or the team with the best record vs. the other indies.) This is actually less of a plug for ND and more of a plug for Navy.

I forgot the “sarc” tag.

As for your question, um, Jerry Hughes?

Were the NCAA to sanction a tournament this year to determine the No. 1 team in the country, a chart of Nebraska’s progress to the title would look something like this—and nobody would argue about who was No. 1

Source: Sports Illustrated 1965 College Football Preview