Posts tagged BCS
In Sport, the Wrong Team Never Wins
Mar 22nd
All lot of anti-playoff bloviation on the interwebs today. Thanks, Northern Iowa.
Once again, March Madness upsets offer fodder to the anti-playoff crowd.
Barring SEC style officiating, the team that scores the most points is the legitimate winner. Pointing to upsets only proves my point, public opinion if often wrong.
“That’s why we play the games.”
I have to wonder, if so many of you believe opinions trump the outcomes of games, why are regular season games needed at all? Why not just compare “Rivals’” rankings and have a vote?
Some of these die-hard playoff antagonists have the audacity to say the wrong team won the Super Bowl.
The money, control, and expansion issues all resonate with me. The wrong team won? That is just ridiculous.
Playoffs may be Unavoidable
Feb 11th
A little ray of sunshine from the most unlikely of places, Gainesville, Fl. Reptilian muckraker, Pat Dooley, knows where the winds of change are blowing. It is a long piece, but one worthy of reading.
Because by the time we tee it up for the 2013 season, the college football landscape could be changed drastically.
The Big Ten wants to add another team, maybe three, so it can reap the rewards of a conference championship game and be relevant after Thanksgiving. The Pac-10 announced this week that it is seriously looking into expansion.
The dominoes are waiting to fall.
You combine these possibilities with a class-action lawsuit brought against the NCAA and we could be looking at something that was a mere pipe dream when it came up many years ago — six super conferences with no NCAA and a bunch of schools left in the dust.
I’m sure Congress will get involved in this if it happens and may be the biggest obstacle in the way, but it sure is looking like we are heading in the direction of the revolution a lot of college football fans have been pining for and the result we all would love to see — a college football playoff.
Inertia is a powerful thing!
The Absolute Worst Argument of All Time
Feb 8th
As you know, I am a proponent of a playoff to determine the D-1 college football champion. I will argue for it until my dying day. I hold firm that is how God intended championships to be decided.
There are many plausible arguments against a playoff. All involve money and control. Then there are those that just reek of utter non-sense and bad schooling.
Take, for instance, the repeated claim that appeared on the Senator’s site today. There are those who contend the Saints victory over the Colts is proof that a playoff will not determine a legitimate champion.
That’s right. There are people walking among us that believe the Colts should be named champion because they THINK the Colts are the better team. Yep, they think their opinions should matter more than the outcome of the game.
In these people’s minds , the outcome on the field matters not when compared with the value of their own analysis. In their mind the Saints victory only serves to prove the BCS is a better system than a playoff.
It probably never occurred to them an underdog could win the BCS game.
Be careful driving to work tomorrow, one of these people may be on the road with you.
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