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[StoOgE]

The BCS needs to die, and it needs to die now.

First, lets get some stuff out of the way, likely BCS rankings come monday

1. USC
2. OU
3. Auburn
4. Cal
5. Texas
6. Utah
7. Boise State/Louisville
8. Boise State/Louisville

the following teams are ensured BCS spots (Auburn and OU's depend on winning their conference championship games).

1. OU (Big 12 champ)
2. USC (Pac 10 champ)
3. Auburn (SEC Champ)
4. Meeeechigan (Big 10 champ)
5. who the hell knows, probably Va Tech (ACC champ)
6. Boston fucking college (big least 'champ')

Then there are two at large spots... if you are from a non BCS conference and are in the top 6 of the BCS you are ensured a BCS spot, if there are any spots left teams from BCS conferences in the top 4 are ensured spots..

so, if the BCS were today Utah is ensured a spot because they are from a non BCS conference and are in the top 6. Cal gets one because they are top 4 and from a BCS conference... here is where the problems come.

Texas is the number 5 team in the nation, and cannot possibly make one of the top bowl games. Utah is locked in at number 6 and Cal is ahead of them. If Cal loses, they would fall back to 8th or lower. Texas would be the 4th ranked team in the country, but two non BCS schools would be 5th and 6th. So Texas loses.

Cal no loner controls its own desitny. If Texas, a team it never played, loses to ATM next friday a non BCS team would jump texas knocking Cal out of the BCS picture, EVEN IF THEY WIN. So, the consensus 4 team in the nation would stay home because Texas lost its rivalry game.

Now here is where things truly get screwed up. Lets say Auburn loses their conference championship and USC drops a game to Notre dame. USC is still their conference champ, but Cal or Texas (who knows how a USC loss would hurt Cal in the computer polls) would be the number 2 team in the country. The other would be number 3 in the country. That team WOULDNT make it to the BCS. That potentially means that Texas could play OU for the national title while Cal is sent to a second tier bowl game even though the human polls favor Cal over Texas... so while most people think Cal should play for the title, they wouldnt even make it to the BCS at all.

The BCS's forumla change is now favoring teams that play creampuff schedules in shitty conferences... and the automatic bids are putting teams that dont deserve to be in a good bowl (ACC, Big East certainly dont, and Michigan with its loss today probably doesnt deserve to be in a top bowl either)... if this is meant to get the best teams playing each other in the best bowls, why dont you just take the BCS top 8, have 1 vs. 2, 3 vs. 4, 5 vs. 6 and 7 vs 8.. who cares what conference you are from, if your conference cant manage to get a team in the top 8 in the nation, tough shit. Your conference doesnt deserve the prestige or the money.

As a Texas fan Im rooting for Cal to make it to the BCS. I respect a team that played a real schedule over what the non BCS teams play..

 

[Eminem]

The BCS needs to die, and it needs to die now.

IAWTP x 10000000000000000000000000

 

[Zep]

If Auburn doesnt play in the National Title Game(If they win the SEC championship) then there is gonna be shit to pay.

 

[StoOgE]

If Auburn doesnt play in the National Title Game(If they win the SEC championship) then there is gonna be shit to pay.

I dont see how they are going to catch OU in the computers. I think most people agree they are a better team playing in a harder conference, but try telling that to the computer polls.... and I wouldnt hold your breath for Iowa State to beat OU in the big 12 championship..

start rootin' for the domers, I think they might be Auburns only hope.

 

[firex]

yeah, the BCS is retarded. I wish they'd just leave the bowl games the same but make a playoff system based upon who does best in each conference or something. even though that doesn't lead to a real national champion, neither does the BCS if you ask me.

 

[marko]

Hmmm, seems you mainly upset Texas won't be in the BCS.

Considering Utah will be the first team outside of the BCS (besides ND) that will make a BCS bowl, that doesn't really bother me. I also think they are a pretty decent team, even though the schedule might not be the best.

Cal, they are deserving of a BCS bowl entry. Although honestly, their schedule is not the most difficult. Out of conference teams of Air force/New Mexico St/Southern Miss is nothing special, and there mid to bottom of pac - 10 seems weak this year ( top 3 are good though).

As far as big east BCS bid, most everyone can agree they are not deserving this year. At the same time, you have to give them a couple of years to recover losing top two teams. The BCS does have a built in system to make sure conferences are doing well enough to keep their bcs bid.

As far as ACC/Big Ten, both of those conferences are deserving of BCS bowl bids as usual.

The biggest crime of the BCS will be if Auburn does not get to championship game. The whole point of the BCS is to declare a national champion, and if it fails to do so conclusively for two years straight that is a problem.

What would be the second biggest crime of the BCS? Not likely to happen, but say Oklahoma loses to big twelve north champion (say Iowa St). Iowa St would get the big 12 BCS bid. That would be a crime.