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

[j j]

But where did the three start the season in the polls? If memory serves correct Auburn started well below OU and USC. Would they have been the team left out if they had started at one or two the way OU and USC did? My guess is the lower ranked team at the start of the year would have been left out no matter which team it was. Didn't this also happen when LSU and OU played in the championship game? Wasn't USC undefeated that year also? Wasn't there a split NC that year? Or had LSU and USC both lost one that year? Any way most voters in one poll didn't feel that LSU was the number one team even after winning so the BCS championship game wasn't really a championship game after all. 



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

I'm not totally convinced of your argument. If you are in a major BCS
conference (SEC, Big XII, Big X+, etc) and you go undefeated you are
playing for a National Championship, period. I don't care where you
started. The only time in the history of the BCS where that hasn't
been true was in 2004. USC, OU, Auburn, Utah and Boise State were all
undefeated. Auburn was, in an ironic twist, left out of the title game
because the SEC had lobbied to have the SoS factor decreased the
previous year (Auburn had the toughest SoS of undefeated teams).  But
only when there was more than 2 undefeated teams has the BCS left out
an undefeated team from a major conference.  It WOULD NOT happen any
other time.

I promise that had NU beaten USC, UT, OSU, and OU we'd be in the title
game, despite starting lower in the polls this year.

Heck, I promise had ISU run the table this year they'd be in the title
game and I don't think they started even in the top 50!

-- 
Go Skers,
 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net

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




jj> J1a2c3k at aol.com wrote: In a message dated 12/5/2006 10:57:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jj> jjj112665 at yahoo.com writes:
jj> That is just the opinion  of some human voters and a mix of imperfect
jj> computers.
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jj> -----------------------------------------------   
jj> A few years ago, one of the Dayton sports writers, who was a voter, [when I
jj> asked about his voting] said he'd always use his vote for the Ohio State no
jj> matter how they were doing.
jj>  
jj> Jack K. 

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