[NU Sports] Big Ten and the BCS ...

[harry]

All of this banter is why I love college football so much and would not want a 2 or 3round playoff to determine the national champ

Harry
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-----Original Message-----
From: "SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:04:25 
To:nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Big Ten and the BCS ...

... or should we say BC-Mess after today.

Yes, Florida is a strong team from a strong league,
but if Michigan gets left out of the title game,
there's going to be some serious explaining to do for
this system.

Remember that when Michigan ended their season, they
were the #2 team in the BCS. You'd think that ending
your year in the top 2 would guarantee a BCS title
game bid.

But then the "anti-rematch" hype kicked in and after
USC trounced a highly overrated Notre Dame team (by
slightly less than Michigan trounced ND ... IN SOUTH
BEND!), the hype machine said that CLEARLY Southern
Cal was the #2 team in the country now and deserved
the shot.

So Michigan was dropped, despite not losing, to #3.
Still well ahead of Florida in the polls.

But then that awesome USC team lost. So now the hype
machine kicks in again and that Florida team that they
dismissed a week ago as not even being #3 or even in
the debate with that awesome USC team is suddenly more
deserving because of their schedule (which was the
same schedule they had a week ago).

So if the BCS drops Michigan behind Florida for a
SECOND TIME without Michigan having lost a game, then
we really need to scrap this crappy system for good.

They had a chance to put in the "conference champs
only in the title game" clause TWO TIMES after the Big
XII debacles where Nebraska and Oklahoma were blown
out of their season finales and still got into the
championship. But they didn't. And Michigan's loss, by
3 points in Columbus, is far less embarassing than
Oklahoma's debacle vs. KSU or the Buffalo massacre for
Nebraska. 

So dropping Michigan TWICE when the Wolverines didn't
lose a game just because you don't want a rematch of a
42-39 game isn't giving the current system any
credibility.

Neither is keeping an 11-1 Wisconsin team ranked in
the top 5-6 out of the BCS because of a silly league
rule.

The Big Ten really needs to rid themselves of this BCS
BS and return to the Rose Bowl tradition until there's
a playoff.

BTW - exposing more idiocy of the BCS ... if Arkansas
and Rutgers had won today (which was close to
happening), you would have had an 11-1 Louisville and
10-2 LSU team in the BCS top four but neither having
the automatic berth for their conferences. With one of
the three remaining at-large berths (after Michigan's
in the title game) taken up by Boise State by the
rules, you'd think that it would mean the Tigers and
Cards were the other two BCS at-large teams. But I
have a feeling Notre Dame at an overrated 10-2 mark
and #10 in the BCS would have been taken instead. BCS
BS.

About the only good thing about Florida's jumping
Michigan would be that the BCS lineup would actually
be somewhat entertaining ...

TITLE: Ohio St. vs. Florida - The two winners of the
top two conferences ... hard to dispute that.

ROSE: USC vs. Michigan - A classic Granddaddy rivalry.

SUGAR: LSU vs. Notre Dame - Road game for the Irish
and the good times may indeed roll for the Tigers.

ORANGE: Louisville vs. Wake Forest - Not quite the
Cinderella Bowl it'd have been with Rutgers, though

FIESTA: Oklahoma vs. Boise State - Go Underdogs!

There's gonna be some rightful cries for change from
one area of the country tomorrow. It's hard to argue
against Florida getting a shot ... but it's also a
joke if the voters drop Michigan two times despite the
Wolverines not losing just because they don't want a
rematch. If Michigan was the second-best team in the
country when they ended their season, how can they be
dropped twice?

BCS CHAOS!!! BCS CHAOS!!! DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM!!!:)

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

* * * * * * * * *
STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!!


 
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