Oh yes, it's true. I love the BCS—and I'm not afraid to say it.
Don't blame the BCS for the chaos at the top of the polls. The system just spits out answers, after all—it doesn't make the quiz.
The BCS was designed to rank the best teams in the nation. It's done that quite successfully. The real problem is the money-hungry no-goods who've decided to play one bowl game for college football's biggest prize.
That said, even the BCS isn't going to be able to sort out what's about to happen.
Admit it—you thought it was going to be easy after last week. LSU would roll to New Orleans, where the Tigers would beat up on whoever happened to be No. 2 at the end of the regular season.
Yeah. Right.
As it stands, I'm almost positive that none of the current contenders were on anyone's national title radar in August.
Missouri? Kansas?
Two Big 12 teams that spent years flopping around the bottom of the conference barrel while Texas and Oklahoma ran rampant.
Ohio State was supposed to be in rebuilding mode after getting hammered by Florida in the 2006 championship game.
What's more, the Buckeyes' hated rivals, the Michigan Wolverines, were supposed to be the toast of the Big Ten.
West Virginia may have gotten some preseason love, but let’s face it—it was USC and LSU's world. Every other team was just living in it.
So much for that.
Whatever happens, the BCS will do the only thing it can do—spit out the rankings. And no one's going to be happy with the result.
2007 has seen it all. Appalachian State knocked a storied program to its knees. Stanford, a team that was as bad as you could get last year, took down the mighty Men of Troy.
And there's still more football to be played.
For all we know, Missouri could beat Kansas before losing the Big 12 title game, and West Virginia could fall to Connecticut.
In that scenario, you’re left with two one-loss teams—one of whom won't have the BCS juice to move into the top two—and a bunch of two-loss teams.
And Hawaii.
Why not?
Remember, this is college football's Most Insane Year Ever.
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Erik Schlagsahne about 1 year ago
I think this is one point that most people haven't addressed that much (thanks for talking about it, Nino) : Ohio State wasn't supposed to be this good this year. After the NC Game last year, no one expected the Buckeyes to bounce back and be competitive. One of the most amazing things about this years team is that they have only two seniors on the team, one on defense and one on offense. We're going to basically be seeing the same team next year, unless Tressel can't convince Laurinaitis to stay his senior year. Next year should be very interesting for the Buckeyes.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Scrap the BCS! There's no reason we shouldn't see the only undefeated college team (Hawaii) in at least a BCS bowl! Money has distorted the competitive nature of ameteur sports. Hey, thats what the NFL and NBA are for! West Virginia... a good football team not a great championship caliber PROGRAM. Hawaii has shown for the last several years that they deserve to be considered contenders. Let 'em play! AND I'm a Ohiostate diehard! What's right is right.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Scrap the BCS! There's no reason we shouldn't see the only undefeated college team (Hawaii) in at least a BCS bowl! Money has distorted the competitive nature of ameteur sports. Hey, thats what the NFL and NBA are for! West Virginia... a good football team not a great championship caliber PROGRAM. Hawaii has shown for the last several years that they deserve to be considered contenders. Let 'em play! AND I'm a Ohiostate diehard! What's right is right.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Erik, I don't think OSU IS that good this year. They have one loss, and how many decent teams have they played? Not as many as the hated LSU Bengal Tigers and the far more hated USC Trojans. Still, at least this season the BCS chaos is very much secondary to the on-the-field chaos we've all seen.
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Nino Colla about 1 year ago
I don't think OSU is that good this year. After last Saturday's game I was fully of the opinion that if Michigan executed better offensively, that they would have won that game.
But still. They did beat Wisconsin. They did beat Penn State. The Big Ten did have a pretty rotten year(yeah okay they have all but one team bowl eligible, but that means it was a bad year for the big guns), but OSU wasn't supposed to go through it with 1 loss.
That's not really what I was getting at though.
The BCS just does what it is supposed to. It's the only sensible thing to do when you are talking about a sport that has over 100 teams competing. The problem is there is no plus one or there is no four team playoff.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Don't blame the BCS for the chaos at the top of the polls. The system just spits out answers, after all it doesn't make the quiz.
The real problem is the money-hungry no-goods who've decided to play one bowl game for college football's biggest prize.
^^best statement ever.
however, there will never be a tournament or big playoff. when has there ever been a situation in which more than 3 teams have a say in the title game? right, never.. so a 4-team playoff/+1 may happen soon, but the 'playoff' games should be played the week after conference championships-NOT BOWLS.
and, just to end an argument.. this season kills the idea of a playoff. oregon, lsu, oklahoma, usc, usf, cal, and kansas all lost, so they're out. only wvu, missouri and maybe sorta osu remain. we'll end up with the 2 best and deserving teams no matter what, though.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Seems like all the Warrior haters should just wish Hawaii gets to the BCS and just get thumped by some superior BCS conference team...oh wait, they don't want to play Hawaii this bowl season when Hawaii has a team that they could lose to...whatever put up or shut-up and stop whining!!! This year, above all years, there is no such thing as a team that can beat all comers. This year, has demonstrated that Hawaii's offense and variations of it, is the equalizer over teams that collect 4-star athletes. BTW...many of these 4-star athletes, that have "great college careers" are total busts in the NFL. Talk about an overrated conference, there can be none other than the Big Ten, witness last season "no respect" teams that were soundly beaten in bowl games. Talk about a cupcake schedule Ohio State played in a soft Big Ten conference and very weak non-conference schedule. The Buckeyes will get thumped again in their bowl game. All in all, the BCS is a money machine farce with no credibility to crown a champion because its' operating principle is exclusion....colllege football would be best served with a playoff system.
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