[personal] Re: [Husker] End of the Season

[Skylar Dodds]

> The problem with the way its done now is that it is more in important when
you
> lose then who you lose too. Lets say that LSU had only lost its first game
of
> the season this year, it more then likely would have came back to have
played
> in the MNC game. On the other hand had it lost its last game of the season
to
> the same team it more then likely would have lost its chance to play in
the
> MNC game. Tell me how that is fair. It also doesnt matter who they would
have
> lost to, it could have been Middle Tennessee state or USC the results
would be
> the same.

It's not, but there are two things missing here:

1) Since the addition of the computer factor, that has helped that a little
since computers don't care when the loss occurred.  It's still figured in,
because the humans have the majority vote, but SOME of it's washed out.

2) If it were a playoff system, you'd have the same scenario, but you'd be
talking about the fringe playoff team instead.  

It's not a bad argument, I just think with all the teams in college
athletics, it's almost impossible to eliminate it no matter what system you
have.

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Skylar
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