[personal] Re: [Husker] BCS - Am I alone?

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So does that mean that they should have been denied a chance at a championship because they had one bad game? Does that mean they weren't one of the best two teams in college football that year because they lost to ISU? Even the greatest of any sport can have a bad day and lose. 
When the 82' NU team lost to Penn St on a very bad call, did that mean PSU was the better team. Was NU really not one of the best two teams in college football that year? Should that call and game have cost them a chance at the championship? 



Skylar Dodds <Sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote: Hello Husker Fans,

SD> Even 1 game doesn't determine which team is better.  Do you really
SD> think KSU is better than UT?  Do you really think UCLA is better than
SD> USC?  How about ISU when they beat NU in

Sorry forgot to finish this sentence before I sent it.

What it should have said, "How about ISU when they beat NU in 1992?"
NU was ranked #7 and ISU was something like 2-6 coming into the game
(sorry I can't remember exactly.)"

Sorry to reply to my own post.

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 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net

SD> Hello Husker Fans,

ML>> Problem is, define "best". What criteria can you use to determine who
ML>> is "best", unless it's whether or not one team would beat another if
ML>> they played? And how can you know if one team would beat another,
ML>> unless you actually play the game? If your position is that a person
ML>> can determine if team A is better than team B without an actual game
ML>> involved, then we should just skip ALL the games, not just the bowls.

SD> That's still a pretty flawed argument for a playoff though. You claim
SD> that a playoff is the only way to determine who is the best team, well
SD> IMHO, the ONLY way to determine who the best team would be over 14
SD> games, not 2 or 3 in a playoff. That just determines who the 'hottest'
SD> team is at the end of the year.

SD> Take Pittsburgh last year. They didn't have a very good season, but
SD> they squeaked into the playoffs and had a great final 4 games.
SD> Especially after the way they've started this year I don't think
SD> anyone in their right minds would call them the 'best' team last year.
SD> They simply got hot at the end (and were helped by some phantom calls
SD> I might add).

SD> So adding a playoff DOES NOT get you the best team, it just gives you
SD> a champion.  I would argue that the BCS does a better job figuring out
SD> who the BEST team is, (even though again we're still looking at
SD> crowning a 'champion').



SD> The best way to determine who is the best is to see who plays the best
SD> over a long stretch of times because you can only get lucky so much.
SD> That's one thing I love about baseball.  NOBODY makes the playoffs in
SD> baseball by a fluke.  There's no such thing.  Even then, they still
SD> play 5-7 times just to make sure that the better team moves on.

SD> Since the sport doesn't allow a best-of-series, IMHO, this is the next
SD> best thing.


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