Well, I know there are a lot of people out there who would like to see a postseason out there for D1A College Football. I recently saw an article, I believe in Yahoo Sports, about a hypothetical postseason for college football, appropriately dubbed "December Delirium". Eight teams would play in the quarter finals, which would be the Holiday, Fiesta, Orange, and Capital One Bowls. The four winners would advance to the semifinals, the Cotton and Sugar Bowls. The two winners would play in the NC game, the Rose Bowl (appropriate, since it is the grandaddy of all college Bowl games). I like this idea, since it gives more teams a shot at the NC (though then you have the issue of how to pick and rank the top 8 for the brackets) and it increases the odds that the best team will be the NC (though the NC game may still not necessarily be 1 vs 2). I was wondering what other people's opinions about this are.
2006-11-14 06:25:14 · 8 answers · asked by Steady As She Goes 2 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Use the current ratings for 1 thru 8 and everyone can stop whining. If you can't be rated that high then you obviously aren't being left out. The current system may implode if a few scenarios play out. Say Michigan loses to OSU and ND wins out, they may be ranked higher than Michigan with identical records and Michigan blew them out. Now using that logic I don't mean that Oregon State deserves the National title game over USC but Michigan will have only lost to the number one team in the country so couldn't they still be number two? If they had played the first week of the season they could end up that way but since they play late it's all about who loses last. It's already happened to Louisville. They beat WV two weeks ago, lost to Rutgers (an undefeated team) and are now below WV?!? I am all for a playoff, if you can defeat three of the top 8 teams in the country in consecutive weeks, you are the best, period.
2006-11-14 06:33:08 · answer #1 · answered by goblueman1968 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds OK to me. I've always thought the BCS was good for ranking teams, but not necessarily matching #1 vs. #2. I know that sounds dumb, but there have been several instances where there's been more than two teams with identical records atop the standings at the end of the season which meant someone (Tulane 1998, Auburn 2004) got left out of the title game. I say use the BCS as a ranking tool and make the playoff 16 teams instead of 8 so that you can ensure that all the undefeated/one loss teams with a good strength of schedule are involved (with exceptions for the independents and non-BCS schools based on rank, schedule strength, number of quality wins and etc.).
2006-11-14 08:39:03 · answer #2 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a good idea, so this way the 2 top teams aren't the only teams to have a chance to win it all. Note undefeated Auburn didn't get a chance at the national championship just a few years back.
2006-11-14 06:33:29 · answer #3 · answered by HMhm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a playoff system would be great but throw in more then 8 teams and let everybody play the damn thing out that way there could be no doubts in anybody's mind
2006-11-14 07:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NC was supposed to solve a problem. All it did was crank the whiners up even more and solved nothing. They're gonna drop the NC game, add the Cotton Bowl and maybe one other bowl, and leave the NC award up to the polls.
2016-03-19 08:02:12 · answer #5 · answered by Michele 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BCS blows they need to come up with some playoff system
2006-11-14 06:49:44 · answer #6 · answered by mustang64093gt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been saying this same thing for years.
2006-11-14 06:55:21 · answer #7 · answered by what the hell is a buckeye? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we can only hope go bucks beat michigan
2006-11-14 06:33:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeh i think this would be a great idea, much fairer
2006-11-14 06:31:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋