they need a playoff no questions asked… Just do it. an and 1 game wouldn’t even work this year.
i’d like to see bama destroy florida/texas/oklahoma/usc if somehow TT gets in i want them to win it all. i’m so tired of USC, LSU, Ohio St, Oklahoma, florida, texas… i want to hate miami and FSU again but they are ****in terrible. where is nebraska, where is colorado, where is VT, tennessee…etc…
I think the system is going to be flawed regardless of how they set it up. There is still going to be polling and computer calculations involved. If they set up an 8 team playoff there we be people bitching about the number 9, 10, 11 and 12th teams.
If you can take 8 teams then the chances of excluding the best team are slim. So I agree that a playoff system will ultimately determine the best team in college football BUT its not going to eliminate the controversy. The teams that get left out are going to complain about not having an opportunity.
I love Hawaii to death but they didn’t deserve to play in the sugar bowl last year just like Utah doesn’t need to be involved in the BCS this year. So if they continue ranking the teams as they do to determine a playoff there are going to be teams like that making it into the playoff while teams between 9 and 25 that are worthy will be excluded.
sorry that’s all jumbled up.
Jimmy
I can not stand Alabama because of Nick Saban, I love Pete Carroll but hate USC with a passion because they can be upset by a lesser team yet still find a way to have a shot at the championship.
The rest of the teams I am indifferent to with the exception of Florida. I have always been a Florida fan except last year when I was rooting for Colt Brennan to win the Heisman. I knew that if Florida had success that Tebow was going to win.
I would like to see a resurgence of the traditional powers like you mentioned too. I just do not think that with the way college football is going that it will be happening. I think the traditional offenses in college are being killed by the spread offense putting up huge numbers. Traditional offenses are built on game management and control while the spread is meant to score and do it fast.
Another thing is that I think that its hard for teams to build a defense that can stop a tradition offense one week then be asked to stop a spread offense the next. If you look at all the teams you mentioned all but 2 or 3 run a traditional offense. You defense a spread with a Nickle type defense and more athletic linebackers while you need 4 or 5 lineman and run stopping backer to stop a traditional offense. I think that’s a difficult thing to ask of one team.
the spread offense is goin to start effecting the NFL. pro passers will be hard to come by and there won’t be enough decent QB’s to fill the position. the Pat Whites of the world aren’t goin to be QB’s in the NFL. And since your defenses will be built to stop the spread a team with a power running game and a average at best QB (sorta like the 90’s steelers) will be about to succeed in the NFL as those players make their way into the draft. Levon Kirkland would never have been on the field in a defense built to stop the spread. They will develop less and less of those style guys thus improving the chance to win with a power ground attack.
back to the BCS… i hate a play-off and i hate the current… i want the traditional… I’ll use the 83 hurricanes as my example… they went into the bowl game as #5 playing the #1 team (nebraska). #2 texas lost in the cotton bowl… #4 Illinois was blown bout in the rose. # 3 auburn barely beat michigan in the sugar bowl. Miami beat #1 so they jumped from 5 to #1 in the final rankings. its gives you a chance to get in even if you arent #1 or #2.
but then again in 1993 they failed. #1 FSU beat #2 Nebraska in the orange but fsu got into the game with a loss when #3 WVU was undefeated and beat BC who beat #1 ND who a week prior beat #1 FSU… also auburn finished undefeated but was on probation. WVU ended up gettin smoked by florida. #4 ND beat #7 in the cotton bowl… ND finished #2 to FSU’s #1… i dont understand how you could beat a team head to head and finish with the same record and not finish as atleast co-champions. if anything WVU should have got a shot to play nebraska and FSU and ND should have rematched.
1994 was a failure when PSU and Nebraska both finished undefeated and nebraska ended up #1 and PSU #2.
in 1990 and in 1991 there were split champions. in 1991 miami and washington split when they both finished undefeated. in 1990 colorado and Georgia tech split even though colorado had a loss and GT was undefeated… both teams also had a tie. I’d have to say 1990 was one of the most exciting seasons ever…If not for the famous “5th down”(colorado-mizzou) and susequently the clip call on ND in the orange bowl GT probably wins outright…a play-off system doesnt leave much anticipation in the air about the other bowl games…neither does the current system. under the current system the bowl games dont mean. a play-off and the BCS closes the box too early and takes the excitement out of new years day. a voter poll leaves it all open to chance. College football is about rivialries and contraversy and lack of structure… thats what makes it…MADE IT it great… the bowl alliance and then the BCS ruined a perfectly flawed system of human polls. If i want playoffs i’ll watch the pros…if i want a tourney i’ll watch basketball.
i also think strenght of schedule is one of the most overated things ever. especially considering the way the big east is looked at… in comparison the acc and big 10 are as bad of not worse top to bottom than the big east… Upsets happen more so in D1 than ever. what if ND knocks off USC…what does that say about Cuse…they will have beat ND who lost to pitt but beat usc who lost to oregon state who lost to psu who lost to iowa who lost to pitt who lost to rutgers who beat cuse. i could go on forever…their is so much parody its rediculous…what about if ND beats USC who smoked OSU who beat michigan who lost to ND who lost to pitt who beat iowa who beat PSU who beat ND who beat navy who lost to pitt who lost to cincy who lost to oklahoma who lost to texas who lost to texas tech who lost to oklahoma who beat nebraska who lost to virginia tech who lost to miami who lost to FSU who beat colorado who beat WVU who beat Uconn who beat cincy who beat USF who lost to Pitt who lost to bowling green who plays toledo who beat michigan who lost minnesota who beat bowling green who lost to boise state who BEAT EVERYONE THEY PLAYED so far!!! utah and boise state need some respect because the NCAA isnt the 7 degrees of kevin bacon, you are seperated from just about any team by one or two degrees.
West Vagina fans where you at?
in morgantown licking their wounds?
the program is in shambles after these two losses to PITT. Patricia White is gone. Noel Devine is clearly not a bright person or any good if patty is not around, the fans are calling for stewarts head…and pitt is the hot team that is gonna steal more of their recruits as will PSU… WVU is in ddep poop.