College football
Sneakylong IMO they should just consider them clubs affiliated with the University.......and they have a free scholarship to take classes/get undergrad degree, if they'd like, as long as the university is in business. Make as much $ as you want through the university in profits or through sponsorship, etc.
I've listened to some sports talk radio, read posts here, heard the rants of the FSU fans and here's my bottom line from 10,000 feet up:
There is no bowl selection system that will not generate an endless diatribe of "yeah but" defenses on why they got it wrong. It's so circular and redundant, I simply ignore it all. I'll probably watch the games, though.
johnnydoom Michigan did that one year to Appalachian State and got beat! Highlight of my FB year, that was.
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sdandrea1 There is no bowl selection system that will not generate an endless diatribe of "yeah but" defenses
I'm sure you remember there used to be, & it was a simple thing. Only a handful of bowls and teams had to win conferences to get there. None of this f'n 6-6 vs. 6-6 bullshit games. Only real teams/real bowls.
The only bitching then was when a team got beat and was still ranked as #1.
sdandrea1 If we had enough intelligent humans it would make the most sense to make a very intricate computer algorithm and feed it tons and tons of data, then let the computer crunch all the numbers and spit out the answers.
If you programmed it carefully enough, it would take all the human bias out of the selection process.
rsvman2 If we had enough intelligent humans it would make the most sense to make a very intricate computer algorithm and feed it tons and tons of data, then let the computer crunch all the numbers and spit out the answers.
If you programmed it carefully enough, it would take all the human bias out of the selection process.
......or each of the conference champs could compete in a playoff series until there's one team left. Works in the NFL.
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sdandrea1 or each of the conference champs could compete in a playoff series until there's one team left. Works in the NFL.
Well, except for the seven wild card teams that have won the Super
bowl. Also, both Alabama and Georgia have won the CFP championship when the other was the conference champion. But the NFL wild card selection doesn't seem to be subjective. Not sure the CFP can do what the NFL does though because they have to allow for the possible inclusion, however improbable a win by that team may be, of non-power 5 conference teams that don't neatly fit the other tie-breaking criteria.
More "yeah, but". There is no acceptable answer.
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sdandrea1 In my opinion it won't make it better, but at least starting next year all of the top conference champions are likely to be in. In the current system, there are 5 recognized power conferences, but still only 4 playoff spots. So even if you go with only conference champs as the criterion, and limited it to the power 5, one had to be left out.
Par4QC That was actually horrible. The Big Ten was tied to the Rose Bowl so noatter how good Michigan or OSU were they'd never get to play the #1or #2 team. That's how Michigan tied for their last Natty in 1997. They didn't have to play Nebraska( who imo would have rolled them) and instead beat up a lesser Pac 10 team.
At least now it's fairly defined. You can argue who the 4th team should be but they're not winning it all anyway. This year is the exception where all 4 teams have a chance and Georgia might be better than all of them
Lots of ways to skin this cat, but somebody is always gonna tell us how f'd up it is. Some way to make it less opinion-based and more performance-based would probably please more people.
sdandrea1 It would be good, but I think they would need to stratify the FBS division significantly to put good objective criteria in place. Then you would further limit the number of teams eligible for BCS consideration.
With a 133 teams, unless the NCAA eliminates conferences and mandates schedules so that strength of schedule is as close to equal as possible for every team, there is no real way. Right now a team from the MAC conference can't have the strength of schedule that one from a power 5 conference has unless they somehow manage to schedule their 2 or 3 nonconference games with top teams from the power 5 every year. There aren't enough of the top teams to go around to balance out the bottom teams.
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This debate has gone on as long as I can remember from the bowls and tie ins, to BCS picking two teams, to now the committee selecting 4 teams. Quite frankly it's a joke and the wheels of change occur really SLOW. D3 has a 32 team playoff, LOL, yes 32 teams. Now they don't play as many games in regular season and the conferences are more regionally aligned. The WIAC are all in state schools, so travel is at a minimum, however the non conf. games there is quite a bit and I suspect they are busing to games, not flying! Each conf. Champ gets an auto bid and there a few at large teams. My alma mater was one to get an at large and made it to the quarters......they blew it vs Wartburg. Point is it can be done and should have been done a LONG time ago. They have missed out on so many amazing moments, money, and the build up to the dance. College .Football is pretty awesome right up until the post season, then it's an epic let down. Settle it on the field vs. letting the old fuddy duddies and USGA types fuck it up, every year!