Not Another BCS Solution
by acho81 on Dec 8, 2009 4:42 PM CST
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PrintI came up with an idea to work with the BCS that may make it more possible to pick a legitimate National Champion. Read on:
The general plan would be to have 5 BCS Bowls: Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, and Cotton to replace the BCS Championship.
Each league would have a tie in with one of the bowls (Big XII would move to Cotton and the Big East would go to the Fiesta) and At-large's would be selected.
The general idea is that they would play the 5 bowls and THEN use the BCS to pick the top two teams from there. The top two after this would play a week or two later and rotate among the sites.
The At-Larges would be selected by giving the bowl that has an opening with the highest team the first At-Large choice so that it can create the most compelling matchup. This way, the #1 team won't play some 2-loss Big 10 team and waltz right into the title game but instead will have to risk getting knocked off. The five bowls would combine revenue and divide it evenly to prevent bad, big name teams from getting in. This is an improvement because a) it gives Mid Majors a chance to say that they played somebody and get in the title game while keeping the bowl system alive and b) forcing top teams to prove which is the best by all playing high level opponents. Instead of Last Year's 45-35 fiasco where OU played Oklahoma State in the final week of the regular season and we played Texas A&M, both teams would have a chance to prove themselves against top teams.
If it were in play this year:
Rose
Oregon (Pac-10) vs. Ohio State (Big 10)
Sugar
Alabama (SEC) vs. At Large
Fiesta
Cincinnati (Big East) vs. At Large
Orange
Georgia Tech (ACC) vs. At Large
Cotton
Texas (Big 12) vs. At Large
Since Alabama is #1, the Sugar Bowl gets the first pick. The Cotton Bowl gets the second pick, the Fiesta Bowl gets the third pick and the Orange Bowl gets the fourth pick. The selections would resemble this:
Rose
Oregon vs. Ohio State
Sugar
Alabama vs. TCU
Fiesta
Cincinnati vs. Iowa
Orange
Georgia Tech vs. Boise State
Cotton
Texas vs. Florida
Yes, Boise State and Cincinnati got a bit of a raw deal. But it does yield two extremely compelling matchups: Texas/Florida and Alabama/TCU. Plus, a Florida upset of Texas would open the door for Cincy.
I know its not perfect and not as good as a bracket but I figured it's something we could actually get.
What do y'all think.
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It’s somewhat more open and compelling than a bracketed plus one, as it opens the door to more than just the top four teams.
That said, any type of BCS modification talk makes me sad, and gets filed away in the back of my mind with AI, space elevators, and unicorns.
I am for modifying subjectivity out of championships...this accomplishes said feat.
"Stats are for losers. I like winning games." - Will Muschamp
"Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts." - Earl Campbell
I like the idea
But it doesn’t quite seem fair that the Sugar Bowl gets the first pick because Alabama is #1.
A team that has finished the season #1 should not get their National Championship hopes punished by having to play the #4 team in the country, while the #3 team gets to play the number #10 team. To be fair, the best team should have an easier road to the national title.
I agree with this
I don’t like the bowls getting to pick in this scenario. If it’s really going to be fair, it should be seeded. 1 shouldn’t have to play 4, 2 shouldn’t have to play 5, etc., just because it’s a good matchup for the bowls. Ideally, you want #1 and #2 in the final game, and the seedings should reflect that. Then, if those teams can’t win those games, they don’t have much to complain about. Making Alabama play TCU and Texas play Florida while Cincinnati gets to play Iowa is a bit of a joke.
What happens when the Big 10 or Pac10 has a No. 1?
Do they still play each other because of tradition?
Its a solution...
but its not the solution. The problem you still have with this is the possibility of multiple undefeated/deserving teams fighting for the #1 and #2 spots. Take your example of this year for example. Lets say the winners of those games are Ohio State, TCU, Iowa, Georgia Tech, and Florida. Then you have 1 undefeated in TCU and three 1 loss teams who could make a case for the NC game. Florida would have just beaten the # 2 team, Alabama has beaten Florida and lost to the only undefeated team, Texas would have only lost to a team that was # 1 all season and eventually lost to #2. There would then be a huge outcry from all 3 teams and the BCS debate would rage on.
Im a firm believer that the only way to solve the BCS problem is with a playoff, and I may share my playoff idea in an upcoming fanpost.
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I like the Yahoo Sports take on it
Don’t know if it’s been talked about yet on BON but it would be a 16 team playoff. 11 conference champs and 5 at large bids that would be decided on by a committee similar to March Madness. Link for the breakdown on how it’d be done and who would go this year
I hate any plan that gives the Sun Belt champion a place at the table...
Perhaps over time it would help increase the quality of play in these conferences, but it would dramatically lower the quality of play in the early rounds in the near term. The basketball tourney hasn’t really seen any large scale improvement of the lower level conferences, no reason to think it would be different in football. In some years you could have 5 teams in the playoff that wouldn’t even have a chance of beating the next 5 left out (and probably not the 5 or 10 or 20 after that!).
I think you give the 6 BCS conferences autobids just for politics sake to get them on board (the current non-AQ teams either go along for the ride or get left out entirely and most of the college football world merely yawns). If you are going to have 16 total teams then you could also have auto-bid standards for the non-AQ conferences like the current BCS, but it could be used to guarantee multiple spots rather than one as in the current BCS.
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