[Husker] BCS - Am I alone?

[STUART JONES]

Right now there is only one undefeated team with any credible claim to #1.
Why don't we forget the bowls and just declare Ohio State regular season
champion? Then if you want a bowl champion you could have Michigan play
Florida and let Ohio St play the winner. The arguments about why a play off
in football does not necessarily give you the best team have already been
made but just to repeat or re-phrase a couple of them: If Mich played Ohio
St in the final and won by a narrow margin you have no clear champion many
people's minds. Same to a lesser degree if Florida beat Ohio St by a narrow
margin. To change direction a little: Was the NU team that lost to Miami in
1983 Orange Bowl not the best team? What if that game was played in Nebraska
or California? I like the memories of that team because they went for a win
and did not get a trophy. I like the memory of the 1993 NU team that
challenged Fl St in the Orange bowl. There is an obsession with titles at
times that does not always spell greatness. I think some national champion
teams are more forgettable than these two teams were.
Stuart Jones

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From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
j j
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:01 AM
To: J1a2c3k at aol.com; husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] BCS - Am I alone?

That right there is my point exactly. Would Ohio St. be #1 if they had
started out at #50 in the polls? They started at or near #1 and stayed
there. Did they play a tough enough schedule to vault to #1 if they had
started lower? They only played two teams that are currently ranked (Texas
and MU). 
If you had an eight team playoff and just took the top eight regardless of
conference they would be: Ohio St, Florida, Michigan, LSU, Louisville,
Wisconsin, OU, USC. Sounds like a pretty good playoff to me. 
One thing the pro-bowlers are forgetting is that in todays system when you
lose matters all most as much as to whom. If Florida had went into the SEC
championship game undefeated and lost they would not have a chance to play
in the MNC game but since they lost a month ago they are there. How is that
fair? How does that guarentee that the two best are playing in the last
game? 




J1a2c3k at aol.com wrote: In a message dated 12/5/2006 10:57:08 P.M.  Eastern
Standard Time, 
jjj112665 at yahoo.com writes:
That is just the opinion  of some human voters and a mix of imperfect  
computers.
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A few years ago, one of the Dayton sports writers, who was a voter, [when I

asked about his voting] said he'd always use his vote for the Ohio State no

matter how they were doing.
 
Jack K. 

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