More on the BCS - A Solution!
War Eagle Tiger Plainsman Douglas has a solution to the BCS fiasco that the Chris Jones Group would like to endorse:
I have an easy fix for this BCS mess. Every BCS conference should have 12 teams and a championship game. (Like the SEC, ACC and Big XII do now.) The Big Ten should include Notre Dame (the independent thing is a bit old) and that gives them twelve. The pac-10 could include two schools of your choice be it BSU or Fresno or the Y. (I was on the team and part of Auburn's 62-0 welcome party for Fresno in 96...seriously non BCS confrence schools just need to understand what they are and live with it.) And the Big East can have the best MAC or C-USA school I guess.No, no, Doug. You're too modest. Many of us now all over the planet will recognize your genius. My only tweak to this would be to allow the top two ranked non-BCS conference champions to play one another for spot #7. Spot #8 goes to the top ranked non-champion regardless of conference. Is it possible that this format leaves out a potential national champion? Sure. What it does NOT do is leave anyone an excuse. You want in? Win your conference. That's all you have to do. That would, incidentally, encourage some really tough non-conference games early in the year, just to get the measure of the likely competition later on. If you're USC, you don't think you'd want to play Texas in September, to find out how fast Vince Young really is? Maybe by December/January you could find a way to stop him.
In this system only the confernce champion winners get to a BCS bowl the remaining two spots go to the highest ranked at large teams. That way a one-loss BCS teams or a deserving non BCS team can get in.
The system is set up as follows:
Number 1 plays Number 8 in the Sugar
Number 2 plays Number 7 in the Rose
Number 3 Plays Number 6 in the Fiesta
Number 4 plays Number 5 in the Orange
A new poll is released and Number one plays number two in the BCS title game.
Thus we keep the bowls, need little realignment, and have a suedo playoff system. If this were in place in 04 Auburn would have had a shot at Utah and then the winner would have had a shot at the winner of the USC OU game the next week. Most likely this would mean Auburn would have played USC (for the third time in three years) and this time we would have beat them!
I am a genius but only I seem to recognize this.
Doug's format fixes almost all of the problems I outlined in my post. We here wholeheartedly endorse it.
posted by Cj at 9:10 AM
5 Comments:
pure genius. now if mr. war eagle can just figure out a way for florida to beat auburn. if he can make this happen we might also have our solution to the political woes as he will surely be elected chief plainsman of the united states.
I laid some smack on the SEC a couple posts ago, and that was before the incredibly pathetic performance put in by Auburn and Florida today. The SEC officially stinks. It's probably the best conference in college football, but Heavens, not by much.
Arizona beats Cal. There's another team I know that lost to Arizona this season. Oh, would that War Eagle's proposal were in force this season! I would personally contribute huge sums of money to see a real playoff.
Yes Auburn looked sad. I thought Florida was strong on the special teams front with the exception of the FG kicker.
But what this proves is that even the weakest teams in the SEC can challenge you and beat you when you are flat. It is a league where Vandy and Kentucky and MSU are at the bottom but still manage enough wins from time to time to go to bowls.
It is a tough league and when we get to the bowls maybe they will uphold their traditional spot of having won more bowl games than other conferences.
Sorry about the Tigers. But how did your troops do this past weekend?
We lost. It was a bad weekend. We finished 6-4 the best first year record of any program in the county. But we were 6-2 and in playoff contention. injuries and inexperience caused us to hit a wall offensively down the stretch
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