Two Cents: Now dealing in hypotheticals
No one really liked yesterday's question, so I've decided to go in a different direction. Imagine that instead of a BCS formula there's some kind of selection committee that chooses the two teams to play in Glendale; now imagine that you are that committee. For the sake of objectivity I'll omit Texas from the discussion.
Say Florida finishes with one loss (to Georgia) and an SEC championship, Tennessee runs the table, West Virginia goes undefeated, USC loses only to Cal, whose only loss is to Tennessee, the Pac-10 champions, and Ohio State loses to Michigan, who lost to, lets say, Iowa, who runs the table with the one loss to tOSU. Who do you put in Glendale? And then after that substitute an undefeated Louisville for an undefeated WVA and see if it changes anything.
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That's easy, I'll take...
wow
Florida and West Virginia.
Tennessee is the Pac-10 Champion?
Florida and tOSU.
by patienthornsfan on Oct 11, 2006 2:03 PM CDT reply actions
SEC champs
Michigan and Florida, unless WVA completley dominates Louisville and all the remaining cupcakes.
Michigan without Manningham?
Is this the LSAT???
(2) Ohio St. VS (1)Florida
I can't see osu dropping lower than 2 with the Michagan loss (unless they get owned)and Florida with its schedule (even after late season loss) and SEC championship still should be there.
If Louisville were to beat WVA...
What if Rutgers beats 'em both?
by patienthornsfan on Oct 11, 2006 3:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Louisville yes WVA no
How about
by kicker @ Burnt Orange Nation on Oct 11, 2006 3:39 PM CDT reply actions
It'd be a lot easier to call for one...
settle it on the field???
Of course that's what I'm rooting for, and why I'm rooting for as big a mess as this scenario. The messier the better! Which is why I won't even bitch about Tennessee winning the Pac10...
In fact, after the BCS "Championship" game, they still actually take a poll, don't they? If something like this happened, would the voters/coaches/SID admins, etc. have the ability to not vote for the winner of the game? I think it's probably a contractual agreement, but what if they just revolted and voted for their conference? With all the requisite arguing and whining... who knows, if it got bad enough it might hasten the day. I fear nothing will until the television numbers drop though...
by agent orange on Oct 11, 2006 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Tennessee is not the Pac-10 champion
"Cal, their only loss to Tennessee, the Pac-10 champions"
Now that I write it it seems a little confusing, but I meant that Cal would be Pac-10 champs, Florida SEC champs
i'm a fan of the undefeated season
If there are only two undefeated teams at the end of the year, I don't want a playoff of 16, 8, or even 4 teams. I want to see those teams play each other, like last year. What would we have thought of a playoff last year when USC and Texas were clearly the two best teams?
There has to be some reward for going undefeated in the regular season beyond a high seed in a playoff bracket.
What about most years when 2 teams
The reward is a higher seeding in the bracket.
that's hardly a reward...
No No
Each game would mean less, but it would be a huge incentive to schedule harder teams early, meaning more for the fans, and would be a huge windfall in money for the schools.
i agree that it will allow tougher scheduling
I think that if there's a playoff, it needs to be small and flexible every year such that if there are only two undefeated teams, they play each other and that's that.
undefeated teams...
Tell you the truth, if that matchup happened, everybody would start scheduling nothing but bad teams. The SOS just isn't that big a factor compared to actual wins, no matter who they come against. So yeah, EVERY GAME COUNTS!!! But most games suck. Give me a system that rewards scheduling risks every time. I'd much rather watch more TX vs. tOSU type of games than TX vs. Eagle Pass Community College.....
by agent orange on Oct 12, 2006 12:21 AM CDT up reply actions
no more than 4
by BrooklynHorn on Oct 12, 2006 12:03 AM CDT up reply actions
if so...
personally, I'd be ecstatic. Incentive to schedule better games all year long, great matchups of top teams at year's end in place of a bunch of .500 teams in the Greater Dacron United Fruit Bowl games, a championship actually settled on the field instead of around the coffee machine at a bunch of newsrooms, played by teams that had to win their way there against the best competition available...
yeah, I'd really mourn the loss of this phenomenal BCS system...
by agent orange on Oct 12, 2006 12:28 AM CDT up reply actions
except that....
So we'll have a worthless, garbage regular season, and then a forgettable fluke champion. No thanks. The unbelievable tension of agonizing over every single Texas game for 5 months last year was the most enthralling run of my sports life. Ask Florida if they remember their entire basketball season that way.
by BrooklynHorn on Oct 12, 2006 12:54 AM CDT up reply actions
That's why a 4 team playoff would be better
4-team is better than 8 or 16
The solution...
agree
by BrooklynHorn on Oct 12, 2006 11:25 AM CDT up reply actions
if only...
though i'll go with Florida/Ohio State. That could be fun.
Zach
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by zachls5 @ Burnt Orange Nation on Oct 11, 2006 4:30 PM CDT reply actions
First of All.....
The more likely scenario is tOSU or UM goes undefeated, Florida goes undefeated (if they can get by the Tigers this weekend) and then win vs the SEC West Champ (looking more and more like Arkansas, but who knows). This pushes undefeated WVA/Louis out of the picture in a 2004 Auburn deja vu.
by bleed burnt orange on Oct 11, 2006 5:07 PM CDT reply actions
But it wouldn't be Auburn deja vu
touche
by bleed burnt orange on Oct 11, 2006 7:44 PM CDT reply actions
Florida v. Tennessee
- a once defeated Florida has probably played the most difficult schedule in the country
- if Florida has not played the most difficult schedule, then once defeated Tennessee has -- and deserves props for opening the season against Cal and then crushing them
- the first game was decided by a point, which suggests the teams are pretty close.
Unless God proclaims it, there is no justification for an undefeated W.Va. or Louisville getting the shot -- although a respectful nod to patienthornsfan's question regarding a Rutgers team that hands W.Va. and Louisville their only losses.

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