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The system does not address the problem whatsoever, that's my problem with it. It just sits back and hopes that the games circumvent the trainwreck on their own. |
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Are you claiming it's an unrealistic hypothetical? Last edited by jwinslow; 07-02-2009 at 01:24 PM. |
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I can't do anything about USC... but, I do know this... I have been around long enough to realize, these things have a way of working themselves out. Yes, every now and again, my team could get "screwed" I DONT CARE - chances are they aren't as "screwed" as I think... It's easy for me to argue that Auburn wasn't screwed in 2004. I know if I was an Auburn fan, I probably wouldn't be quite as objective about it. It's true for Ohio State too... I admit it. But, I won't knowingly devalue the regular season for it. Quote:
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Add a 5th BCS game to bring in more revenue and grease the palms of the decision makers. Use 2 of the 5 BCS games for a 2 team semi-final. One BCS bowl hosts the NC a week later (I don't really care where). 1) It keeps the regular season "playoff" intact. 2) It does not include bad teams like march madness or a 16 team tourney (or to a lesser extent, 8 team tourney). 3) It gives us 3 compelling matchups, on paper. |
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If it is a blatant conspiracy I reserve the right to yell and scream. But, I highly doubt there will be any actual conspiracy, Josh. Quote:
Pick a position... you can't call the AP poll illigitmate and then use it in support of some kind of OU conspiracy. Quote:
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Yes it does. But, while it doesn't include any "bad" teams, it does include quite a few teams that deserve to be there considerably less than #'s 1 & 2 do. And as far as snubbing goes, it just moves the snub back two slots, but maintains an arbitrary line. |
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Nothing inherently wrong with it... It's fine for what it's worth... but it's not "fair" or "principled." It does address a particular problem, but don't kid yourself in to thinking it's anything more than doing the same thing the BCS did incorrectly - Tweaking itself to offer some kid of "fix" to some perceived problem. |
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excellent post, zinc.
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Are you seriously contending that OSU is at a disadvantage in a 2 team system, but it's all [censored]s and grins in a 4 team? Besides, that's what computers are for. They don't care what Ohio State did in 2006, 2007 or 2008 (OR 1968, for that matter). Quote:
The BCS didn't snub USC, it selected two other teams using it's formula - which was specifically developed to reduce the very same BIAS you now tout as evidence that SC got snubbed int he first place. So what if Humans though SC was better... Humans can get it wrong. Likewise, do you forget that a late season loss isn't any better or worse, so your "Big Twelve Championship game loss" angle losses it's luster quite a bit. |
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I could be persuaded to a 4 team playoff, even still. though I am aware of the "slippery slope" too and that's a serious factor for me. |
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But if someone believes that the idea of a "true", "objective" college football national champion is a phantom that can never be achieved, how is it possible to believe that a relatively small playoff would be the end of it? The BCS is, in effect, the smallest possible playoff, and at one time that was thought to be the end of it. But it's not. There will always be people chasing that phantom. Always people saying, "this didn't quite do it, but if we just add one more layer, that will get us our true national champion". Even if given some inviolable guarantee that it would never metastasize, I wouldn't elect to have a 4-team playoff, but I would certainly greatly prefer it to an 8-team playoff. But if we started at four, I would have zero confidence that it would be more than a couple years before the moans and groans started that it needed to be bigger, more inclusive. Exactly as happened with the 2-team playoff. |
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