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05-01-2008, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
You can throw out about 50+ of those "BCS teams" being in the title game.
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Realistically, you are absolutely correct. I was only showing the numbers side of it.
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The fact that you've played in two NC games in four years and both of them being "at home", and that USC played a NC game on their home field in between those two games, shows your stats are flawed.
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Miami playing in two games NOT at home, and USC playing in one NOT at home shows that it's just as likely that we can make a NC run in a year the Dome DOESN'T host. So far, we've been lucky that our title runs were in those years. Our chances of reaching the title game this year don't change just because it's not being played in New Orleans. Just like Miami's chances aren't any better just because it's gonna be in the Orange Bowl.
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In fact, three of the last five NC games had a "home team" playing in them.
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Didn't happen at all in the 5 years before that, and may not happen again in the next 5 years.
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05-01-2008, 08:00 PM
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Miami playing in two games NOT at home, and USC playing in one NOT at home shows that it's just as likely that we can make a NC run in a year the Dome DOESN'T host. So far, we've been lucky that our title runs were in those years. Our chances of reaching the title game this year don't change just because it's not being played in New Orleans. Just like Miami's chances aren't any better just because it's gonna be in the Orange Bowl.
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Oh, I get it. Just because it doesn't happen all the time makes it a non-factor. 
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Didn't happen at all in the 5 years before that, and may not happen again in the next 5 years.
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Well, when the total amount of different teams that have played in the 10 BCS title games is only 11, the chances are pretty decent that in the next few years it'll happen again. For the record, here are all the teams to play in a BCS title game, with their number of appearances:
Florida State 3
Ohio State 3
Oklahoma 3
LSU 2
Miami 2
USC 2
Florida 1
Nebraska 1
Tennessee 1
Texas 1
Virginia Tech 1
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05-01-2008, 08:20 PM
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Oh, I get it. Just because it doesn't happen all the time makes it a non-factor. |
Not a non-factor. But not something that can be "fixed".
Do you think the NFL would consider scrapping/changing the current method of choosing the Super Bowl venue if Tampa makes it this year, and Dallas goes in a year or two (whenever it is their new building opens)?
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Well, when the total amount of different teams that have played in the 10 BCS title games is only 11, the chances are pretty decent that in the next few years it'll happen again.
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Sure it might happen.
But the odds of winning at black jack don't change just because you win 3 out of 5 hands.
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05-05-2008, 07:10 AM
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Dispatch
College football | analysis
Opponents dug in against playoff
Fans might want it, but universities, conferences see no pressing need
Monday, May 5, 2008 3:05 AM
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee calls the issue of a college football playoff his Maginot Line -- a final, heels-in-the-dirt resistance to what he views as the ruination of the sport. The reference is to the line of fortifications France built on its border with Germany in the 1930s.
"We will not cross that line and get onto the slippery slope -- the professional-ization of college football and a furthering of the arms race," he said. "We simply have to say no. If we don't say no to this, the horse has left the barn totally. I will vote against it under any circumstance."
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05-05-2008, 07:35 AM
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I'm glad to see the dispatch finally came out and reported what I have been saying ever since God made dirt.
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05-05-2008, 08:00 AM
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And I always thought it was the tie that made Gee so sexy.
I love you Gordon.
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05-05-2008, 09:49 AM
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