[Husker] Colorado Series

[Dave Ratchford]

Good stuff.  You are right on about the selection committee. If the committee was actually run by the NCAA, it would be much more likely to ding teams for playing these games. But it's not run by the NCAA, its run by the BCS. And the BCS is a business so above all they will first protect the money.

Dave

On Feb 10, 2013, at 10:34 PM, nolan at tssi.com (Mike Nolan) wrote:

> It makes little difference whether there are 8, 9 or 10 conference games.
> 
> Regardless of the mandate to have 7 or even 8 home games, as long as the 
> NCAA continues to permit 'body bag' games, teams will prefer to win 
> multiple body bag game than risk losing even one game against a medium 
> quality (such as top 50 but not top 25) opponent and get knocked out
> of the top 10 and effectively out of the race for the national championship
> before any conference titles are even warming up.
> 
> If the committee to decide the 4 playoff teams has any balls (and it won't),
> it will downcheck teams who play games against inept FBS teams, all BCS
> teams and especially DII teams.
> 
> I gave Michigan a lot of props for their non-conference schedule in 2012,
> about the only one that had multiple 'serious' games in it, even if they
> lost both of them.
> --
> Mike Nolan
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