Do you think Coaches are tired of the sports writers picking the national championship foes and being wrong?

Question

Consensus had Notre Dame in the coaches poll 11. If the sports writer different find Brad Quinn so attractive in the scheme of purity things, we woulkd not have Notre Dame playing LSU you would probably have Louisville. Better game....or Wisconsin. Most schools are located in the West and South that voted. Florida's selection makes this year the best championship..Next time Boise, we will real get it right. One game at a time.

Answer 1

Um, I don't know where you got your information, but you're wrong on pretty much all counts.

First, the sportswriters' poll (the AP) is not part of the BCS. Only the coaches' poll and the Harris poll (ex-coaches, players, etc.) count in the BCS, so if the coaches want to blame anyone, blame themselves.

Second, beyond picking the teams for the national championship game, the BCS rankings are pretty much meaningless. Each of the BCS bowls has conference tie-ins where the champions go when they're not selected for the title game - ACC to Orange, SEC to Sugar, Big XII to Fiesta, and Big Ten and Pac Ten to Rose. Beyond that, the bowls pick who they want the other representative to be, and in the Sugar's case, they picked Notre Dame. The Orange picked Louisville.

Third, Wisconsin cannot be picked for a BCS bowl because two members of its conference are already going to BCS bowls.

Fourth, voters amongst the coaches are spread throughout the country, pretty evenly distributed amongst the 119 schools that are in Division I-A. For each conference:

ACC - 7 (BC, Clemson, FSU, Miami, UNC, NC State, VPI)
Big East - 4 (UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, WVU)
Big Ten - 6 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, MSU, OSU, Purdue)
Big XII - 7 (Colorado, ISU, Nebraska, OU, Texas, TAMU, TTU)
CUSA - 6 (UAB, UCF, Houston, Marshall, SoMiss, Tulsa)
MAC - 6 (Ball State, BG, CMU, Miami, NIU, Ohio)
MWC - 4 (CSU, UNM, TCU, Wyoming)
Pac Ten - 6 (Cal, Oregon, OSU, Stanford, UW, WSU)
SEC - 7 (Arkansas, Auburn, UGA, LSU, MSU, USC, Tennessee)
Sun Belt - 4 (FAU, MTSU, NTU, Troy)
WAC - 4 (Boise State, Fresno State, La Tech, San Jose State)
Independents - 2 (Army, Notre Dame)

Most schools that voted are in the West and South because there are more schools in the West and South in Division I-A than there are in the East or the Midwest.

Answer 2

well first of all its Brady Quinn and Notre Dame only lost to two of the best teams in the nation MICHGAN and USC and Florida shouldnt be in it cuz they lost to Auburn(who is unranked) and they only beat VANDERBILT by 3 and they beat an Arkansas team w/o the best all-around player in the nation Darrin McFadden and I think that Louisville and WV and MICHIGAN will be the top 3 teams in that nation

Answer 3

Always there will be wrong football is a any one can one on any give day kind of sport...