#1dolphinsfan
Perennial All-Pro
I am really hoping that Oregon plays for the National Championship
They need an invite first. And to get an invite they need a bigger media market. Think about it: why the **** did the Pac 10 invite Colorado? Does it up their BCS numbers? No.I really dont know the answer to this but could Boise St. have moved to the Pac-10 if they wanted to with the recent shuffles.
Boise needs to do what miami and fsu had to do 30 years ago....travel anywhere and play anybody. Don't expect home and homes because its not happening in a crappy 40,000 seat stadium. The fact is they don't play a tough schedule, they get up for 1 -2 tough games a year. Thats a lot easier than an sec schedule, hell thats easier than an acc schedule.
They need an invite first. And to get an invite they need a bigger media market. Think about it: why the **** did the Pac 10 invite Colorado? Does it up their BCS numbers? No.
After all is said and done, Boise State will get passed over repeatedly for an AQ conference due to one thing only: money. Money is what college football is about. It isn't about sportsmanship or finding out which team is best. It's about which team representing a big media market can sell the most viewers to advertisers. Period.
Why they cant schedule better opponents isnt really important to this discussion. The fact of the matter is their schedule, for whatever reason, simply isnt up to par with a team from a major conference. Boise is a very good team, but its really not fair to other teams to penalize them for playing real games all year.That's a joke. Yes, all they need to do is schedule harder teams--just like on the playstation!
or they stop using computers to determine these things and let the teams play one another. never will happen. as a poster above mentioned, college ball is really more about money than determining which team truly is the best.
Why they cant schedule better opponents isnt really important to this discussion. The fact of the matter is their schedule, for whatever reason, simply isnt up to par with a team from a major conference. Boise is a very good team, but its really not fair to other teams to penalize them for playing real games all year.
No... that's what the BCS is about... not what college football is about... I figured the BCS out a decade ago..
Here's the problem with conferences that don't play conference championship games (like the Big-Ten).. Ohio St. and Michigan St. could both be undefeated at the end of the season.. they don't play each other.
They'll just "split" the conference title and the BCS will put Ohio St. in the national championship game based on BCS ranking... meanwhile, Michigan St. will be invited to a meaningless BCS game despite having the same undefeated record (and conference record) as Ohio St...
The Pac-10 won't play a conference championship game either... neither will the WAC (although that would be futile anyway)...
The SEC is 26-6 so far against all the other conferences.... with 4 of those losses coming directly from the 2 worst teams in the conference (Ole Miss and Vandy)... Vandy lost by 2 points to a team that was in the top 25 just a week or so ago (Northwestern)...
Mississippi St. just beat a Houston team that was ranked in the top 25 a couple of weeks ago... absolutely KILLED Houston... Ole Miss hung 55 points on Boise St.'s conference "bellcow" Fresno St... again, we're talking about the 2 WORST teams just inside the SEC West... and THE worst team inside the SEC East...
The SEC West Division alone is a suicide mission.... (Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mississippi St.).. nevermind having to go on the road to face an SEC East team like South Carolina... or playing Florida at home, etc., etc, etc....
I've always been a proponent of a playoff system... but even then, it's still no comparison.. The schedule that teams from the SEC had to play to QUALIFY for a playoff scenario compared to the joke schedules of teams from other conferences still represents a HUGE gap....
I'm curious to see what else would be left for anyone to whine about when college football adopts a playoff system and two SEC teams STILL end up playing for the national championship... because they were the two best teams to begin with...
No... that's what the BCS is about... not what college football is about... I figured the BCS out a decade ago..
Here's the problem with conferences that don't play conference championship games (like the Big-Ten).. Ohio St. and Michigan St. could both be undefeated at the end of the season.. they don't play each other.
They'll just "split" the conference title and the BCS will put Ohio St. in the national championship game based on BCS ranking... meanwhile, Michigan St. will be invited to a meaningless BCS game despite having the same undefeated record (and conference record) as Ohio St...
The Pac-10 won't play a conference championship game either... neither will the WAC (although that would be futile anyway)...
The SEC is 26-6 so far against all the other conferences.... with 4 of those losses coming directly from the 2 worst teams in the conference (Ole Miss and Vandy)... Vandy lost by 2 points to a team that was in the top 25 just a week or so ago (Northwestern)...
Mississippi St. just beat a Houston team that was ranked in the top 25 a couple of weeks ago... absolutely KILLED Houston... Ole Miss hung 55 points on Boise St.'s conference "bellcow" Fresno St... again, we're talking about the 2 WORST teams just inside the SEC West... and THE worst team inside the SEC East...
The SEC West Division alone is a suicide mission.... (Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mississippi St.).. nevermind having to go on the road to face an SEC East team like South Carolina... or playing Florida at home, etc., etc, etc....
I've always been a proponent of a playoff system... but even then, it's still no comparison.. The schedule that teams from the SEC had to play to QUALIFY for a playoff scenario compared to the joke schedules of teams from other conferences still represents a HUGE gap....
I'm curious to see what else would be left for anyone to whine about when college football adopts a playoff system and two SEC teams STILL end up playing for the national championship... because they were the two best teams to begin with...
How about this: Instead of disbanding the BCS, we take OOC scheduling completely out of the hands of the schools. Instead we have a rotating schedule like the NFL where one season one conference plays another and then rotate from there. Florida would be forced to leave the state to play OOC. Alabama would have to travel to UTEP. Boise would have to travel to Ohio State, etc. Wouldn't that be more fair?
And in a playoff system two SEC teams would never make it. They'd knock eachother out in regional play.
I'm curious to see what else would be left for anyone to whine about when college football adopts a playoff system...