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BCS Is The Perfect System, Says BCS Website
Let's Settle This College Football Playoff Problem Right Now
New York, 5:00 PM
Fri Nov 27
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01:38 PM
On another note, the Vanier Cup is tomorrow, where the Western champion (University of Calgary) faces the Ontario champion (Queen's University, my alma mater) for the championship of Canadian football. No voting or anything. Cha Gheill.
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That's not America...That's not even Mexico.
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Absolutely not. As someone who watched the top three teams in his conference have to play their post season games in 2008 against teams from the state in which the game was held*, it puts northern teams, built for the fact that we stand in 30 degree weather to watch a 3-7 team play a meaningless game because we love our team, at a distinct disadvantage. The first round, at the very least, must be a home game in mid-December. New Year's Day for the Semis, and the Saturday of the Super Bowl Bye week for the finals. It could work.
(*-Of Ohio State, Illinois, and Michigan, only Michigan won, and that wasn't even a BCS bowl game.)
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Also: You need to be top-15 and not have more than 2 losses to be eligible.
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THIS IS WHAT I'M FUCKING SAYING
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Yeah, I kinda like having my regular season being the playoffs as it is.
11/17/08
This is, of course, absurd. The regular season isn't a "playoff" in any sense of the word.
What happens if Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech all finish with one loss, with Texas beating Oklahoma, Oklahoma beating Tech and Tech beating Texas? How do you pick one of those three as the winner of some "playoff"?
What happens if/when Alabama loses to Florida in the SEC Championship? That basically means that Florida's loss to Ole Miss was rendered utterly meaningless, meaning that Alabama could have lost to Mississippi State this weekend with no repercussions.
To wit - USC losing to Oregon State is no worse than Florida losing to Ole Miss, and USC has crushed everyone else in their path before or since (including Ohio State)...so why don't they get to redeem themselves from that one loss?
11/17/08
And this is a fact, unfortunately. USC is so good, it takes would-be first stringers from UCLA and they come to USC and they sit on the bench... and hasn't Florida crushed better teams than USC? Cal and Ohio State are the only good (so to speak, according to the BCS) teams that USC has beaten. Oh and Oregon...
/quack
11/17/08
So USC is punished because the teams on its schedule that it cannot change happen to be terrible this year? What are they supposed to do, beat them 67-0 every week? They're doing that already! Their non-conference schedule is Virginia, Ohio State and Notre Dame, all BCS schools including two traditional powers.
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USC lost to Oregon State.
Florida lost to Ole Miss.
Which is worse?
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