College Playoff - Page 64

Gatorubet · #**946** (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Dryden

It's OK to schedule a W vs a lower division foe like the Citadel as long as you balance that with some upper tier match ups versus stronger teams, like Louisiana Tech and UL-Monroe.

Of course, the SOS numbers are readily available, and they are what they are, and all of the talk about rent-a-wins is either dispelled or confirmed by that number.

Buckeneye · #**947** (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 02:42 PM

Good stuff, the SEC and ACC push for a change. The current system originates from the SEC, which is just now a decade old... and the SEC champion has won the last two championship games.

[censored], I'd be complaining to.

While I agree about some gripes with the BCS, there's potential flaws in every system. Florida jumped Michigan in 06, and thanks to the Gators, LSU was given the shot at being the first 2 loss team to go the title.

The SEC has had the better end of the stick 2/3 times.... yet that's were the primary noise is coming from.

Perhaps thats just me though.

MililaniBuckeye · #**948** (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by lvbuckeye

the solution to that dilemma is "DON'T SCHEDULE THE [censored]ING CITADEL."

Houston (one of Oklahoma's OOC opponents in 2004) wasn't much better, if at all, than the Citadel.

The point is that Auburn had a legitimate gripe about being left out (they played better against their SEC opponents than did Oklahoma against their Big 12 opponents).

lvbuckeye · #**949** (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 02:46 PM

haha. i will at least give Tennecleat (and Arkansas too, now that i think about it) some props in this regard. they actually went out and scheduled a game against a good opponent outside of Dixie... the only other SEC schools to do that in the 25 years or so that i've been aware of college football are Kentucky and Vanderbilt... because they are the bottom feeders and provide fodder for the upper echelon... and what happened to Tennecleat and Arkansas when they left Dixie to play a good OOC opponent?? they both got WHACKED by the Pac Ten.

when was the last time Georgia or Florida or Alabama played a non-conference, non-bowl game outside of Dixie?

don't tell me that home field (or home area, if you want to mince words and argue semantics) advantage doesn't exist...

methomps · #**950** (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by BayBuck

Good! [censored] ESPN and their incessant whining for a CFB playoff! This is a sport where fans are still arguing over who was the true champion in some season decades ago, and that endless conversation is great for the sport.

2002 wasn't "decades ago."

Nutriaitch · #**951** (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by mercer_buckeye

Um really didn't Miami play in the Orange bowl for a title, didn't USC play for a title in Rose Bowl, and then as you mentioned this year's championship. It's not as if it doesn't happen.

Of course it does happen. But at least the odds have been lessened since the BCS. Coincidentally, both times we've made the games were the years that the dome hosted. had those two runs been in any other year, we have no homefield advantage.

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Originally Posted by BB73

A fan whose team has played in 2 BCS Title games, both in New Orleans, should be able to see that advantage.

Without a doubt it's an advantage. But that's more luck than anything else that our runs coincide with New Orleans being the site. It's alwas possible for us to meet USC in the Rose, or Az St. in Glendale, or even Thug U down in Miami.

Dryden · #**952** (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by lvbuckeye

haha. i will at least give Tennecleat (and Arkansas too, now that i think about it) some props in this regard. they actually went out and scheduled a game against a good opponent outside of Dixie... the only other SEC schools to do that in the 25 years or so that i've been aware of college football are Kentucky and Vanderbilt... because they are the bottom feeders and provide fodder for the upper echelon... and what happened to Tennecleat and Arkansas when they left Dixie to play a good OOC opponent?? they both got WHACKED by the Pac Ten.

when was the last time Georgia or Florida or Alabama played a non-conference, non-bowl game outside of Dixie?

don't tell me that home field (or home area, if you want to mince words and argue semantics) advantage doesn't exist...

Well, Alabama went out to Pasadena to play UCLA sometime recently when UCLA was good, and they also went to Norman to play Oklahoma recently too, plus a couple trips out to Hawaii in the years they knew they couldn't be going to bowls, so Alabama does schedule.

Florida and Georgia are laughable, though.

In the past 10 years (since the BCS started in 1998), Florida has played 34 regular season OOC games. 28 have been in Gainesville, 5 in Tallahassee, and 1 in Miami. Have not played a single regular season OOC opponent from a BCS conference other than Florida State or Miami, so Florida has not only not left Dixie, they haven't even left the state of Florida.

Georgia also has played 34 regular season OOC games since 1998. 28 have been in Athens, 5 in Atlanta, and 1 in Clemson, SC.