Number 4 wins title!

[Jekku]

Wow! BCS BCS! What do you all think about the old system with the most recent happenings? As much as i'm not into Ohio State congrats on the title.

 

[Jekku]

No love?

 

[Beggs]

mercy plorst

 

[ElTexan]

mercy plorst

 

[Churchillin]

Four teams is perfect. No one is truly left out unless there are five or more undefeated teams, yet there is just enough uncertainty (TCU) to make for some great discussion which is good for SportsHoopla. Hope they don't switch to eight teams any time soon.

 

[ElTexan]

Seriously.. it shows that SEC teams were granted easy passes to the NCG and mostly played patsies... ChokeHio State twice, Chokelahoma twice, Notre Lame that in no way deserved to be there... an intra-SEC final... and Texas with Gilbert Grape who still had the ball with three minutes down by only three.

The Auburn-Oregon win was legit, though.

 

[Mistaken4193]

Seriously.. it shows that SEC teams were granted easy passes to the NCG and mostly played patsies... ChokeHio State twice, Chokelahoma twice, Notre Lame that in no way deserved to be there... an intra-SEC final... and Texas with Gilbert Grape who still had the ball with three minutes down by only three.

The Auburn-Oregon win was legit, though.

How did Notre Dame not deserve to be there??? They were undefeated and beat the Pac-12 Champs and Big 12 Co-Champs.

 

[ElTexan]

My bad... hard to argue "didn't deserve to be there"... but they were CLEARLY a patsy.


lmao at you tying to nitpick the slightest mis-wording when you know the message is clearly true.

 

[Jekku]

Keep it coming! I think it just shows, the more we see, the less we know!

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

The 4-team playoff certainly gets rid of some (a lot?) of the randomness of the BCS system. I still don't think it's close to being perfect but I'm also thinking there may not be a single best way to determine a national champion.

They should certainly stay with this system for awhile. It might grow on me some more.

 

[ElTexan]

BCS: automatically put, at least, one SEC team in the NCG and see what happens [usually against patsies].

Kinda hard NOT to dominate. Congrats cuz they still won those games, but seriously... some of us have been calling BS on it for a decade.

 

[Robotech]

My bad... hard to argue "didn't deserve to be there"... but they were CLEARLY a patsy.


lmao at you tying to nitpick the slightest mis-wording when you know the message is clearly true.

I think most Notre Dame fans felt like they were going to get their asses whooped. That's what's great about a playoff. Now even undefeated teams will have to earn their place in the championship game.

 

[Jekku]

The 4-team playoff certainly gets rid of some (a lot?) of the randomness of the BCS system. I still don't think it's close to being perfect but I'm also thinking there may not be a single best way to determine a national champion.

They should certainly stay with this system for awhile. It might grow on me some more.

Fair points. But I think having #4 win (and a controversial 4 pick to begin with, and compounded with TCU smashing in their bowl) just opens up more questions. I dont mean to be buzz kill to OSU fans. But this topic must be approached.

 

[Jekku]

We may have to consider more then 4 imo.

 

[Robotech]

BCS: automatically put, at least, one SEC team in the NCG and see what happens [usually against patsies].

Kinda hard NOT to dominate. Congrats cuz they still won those games, but seriously... some of us have been calling BS on it for a decade.

SEC had a great PR machine. Their head coaches always seemed to be the most visible ones whenever it came time to debate who gets into the BCS championship game. Gotta give them congrats for that, too.

 

[TDs3nOut]

Four teams is perfect. No one is truly left out unless there are five or more undefeated teams, yet there is just enough uncertainty (TCU) to make for some great discussion which is good for SportsHoopla. Hope they don't switch to eight teams any time soon.

That's one way of thinking about things, but the way that tOSU got so much better after its first twelve games suggests to me that other teams might also "get hot" at the right time if the playoff were expanded to eight teams.

 

[ElTexan]

We don't want to crown an "end of season tourney champ."

We want to crown a "season champ."

4 is best.

 

[Jekku]

We don't want to crown an "end of season tourney champ."

We want to crown a "season champ."

4 is best.

After the latest happenings how can you say that?

All you have is the tourney card left to play. Come on, the great game of football deserves to be played out. 4 teams has shown the potential (it's one season) of the old system. Why do you fear 6 or 8? They prob could win it!

 

[Robotech]

I hope expansion to eight happens soon. Each Power 5 Conference champ gets a spot in the playoff. This would reduce the need for ridiculous conference homerism. I'm not sure what to do with the other 3 spots and how to treat mid majors and Notre Dame. Maybe go to 8 super conferences and give each super conference champ a playoff spot.

 

[ElTexan]

After the latest happenings how can you say that?

All you have is the tourney card left to play. Come on, the great game of football deserves to be played out. 4 teams has shown the potential (it's one season) of the old system. Why do you fear 6 or 8? They prob could win it!

I can say it because I say exactly what I mean... I don't want a two-loss team to "get hot" and win the end of season tourney and be crowned champ for the season... it belittles the accomplishments of the whole season.