I've been a big BCS detractor, and have wanted a playoff system for quite a few years now, but I was just planning my next few weekends and saw this:
Nov 18: No 1 OHST v No 2 MICH
Nov 24: No 9 LSU v No 5 ARK
Nov 25: No 6 ND v No 4 USC
Dec 2: No 7 Rutgers v No 8 WVU
Dec 2: No 3 FLA v No 5 ARK
The top 9 teams all play against each other over the next 3 weeks just by virute of their AD's scheduling.
Poor Arkansas will be a tragedy story if they finish the year by beating #9 and # 3, but lose out if USC tops #17 Cal (Nov 18) and #6 Notre Dame (USC whomped ARK in week 1, 50-14)
2006-11-16 08:05:09 · 6 answers · asked by Alan B 2 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
It's luck of the draw that we are seeing so many games like this. It won't happen every year and then you'll be begging for that championship game again.
2006-11-16 08:07:56 · answer #1 · answered by Sharp Marble 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO OTHER sport in the US uses a BCS type system. If they did:
The Colts would be 3 time Superbowl Champs:
The Spurs and the Heat would not have ANY championships
8 of the 10 World Series teams would NOT be champs.
9 out of the 10 NCAA basketball teams that won the championship would not be champion under the BCS system.
It's the most idiotic thing known in sports.
All of the SEC teams play 7 games at home out of 11, and rarely if ever play any good teams non-conference and if they do, they play them at home.
The Big East now does the same thing; Their non-conference schedule is a joke.
The BCS exists because of the money. It's all about the schools and the NCAA making their pockets bigger due to the bowls and keeping this system. Why do you think there are so many dumb bowl games?
The BCS stands for one thing; BULL CRAP SYSTEM!
2006-11-16 08:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by Ice4444 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES...here's what i think should be done. EVERY conferance has to play a conference championship game. that leaves you with 9 (big 10, big 12, pac 10, acc, mac, wac, sunbelt, conference usa, and big east) teams. then they should add 7 at large teams based on the rankings, strength of schedule, etc. and have a 16 team playoff.
this way nobody can complain that their school or conference is being left out, and one loss won't kill your season. they can use the existing bowls to play the playoffs and get rid of some of these bowls. i love to watch them but they are meaningless and some teams don't deserve to go.
2006-11-16 08:14:24 · answer #3 · answered by That Guy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the bcs is def a flawed system but a college football playoff would be a disaster
for starters, it would likely go into mid february
there would be that many more games for all stars to get hurt and blow chances at pro careers (id rather see them for years in the pros than 2 or 3 more games in college anyway)
theres far too many teams to do this...you can do it in college basketball because you can play back to back games on back to back days....in division 1 there are 119 teams i believe...how many do you propose go to playoffs? anything less than the top 25 would be ludacris
ok say you take 32 teams...thats 5 extra weeks of games
how gay would new years day be without bowl games??
plus college playoffs couldnt go that long cuz they'd be cuttin into my nfl playoffs...and you dont wanna do that
trust me...the system isnt perfect by any means but playoffs are not the answer
2006-11-16 08:41:29 · answer #4 · answered by thuglife 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, the Arkansas team that lost to USC is not the same team that has shown up to every other game this year. I hope USC loses, but it's been a great run for the Razorbacks nonetheless. They were nobody after week one.
2006-11-16 08:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by Zombie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
C'mon people...we all know that if there was a playoff in college football, the players would miss far too many classes... we all know that colleges will NEVER put up with that... LOL ! :-)
2006-11-16 11:58:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋