Wiz, was that Washington loss to ASU worse than the Clemson loss to Syracuse? I don't think so.
My point on that is once you lose to anyone you remove the only thing you can control. I just don't worry about the committee or the endless bitching on who should be in over whom. Just win and there is nothing to debate. That's entirely the point. And it has been that way forever. We got the BCS because sometimes you get more than one undefeated team. You do need a way to figure that out. That's what the BCS was designed to do. Well, we ended up with some 1 loss team being left out over some other 1 loss team. Now we can't have that, so we went to 4. And now people are concerned over which 2 loss team is being left out. It has drifted already away from the intent and is slipping farther and farther down a path I don't care for.
I hear what you are saying about "just win" and dont worry about it.
Right, and that's exactly why I don't want things to get worst where then everyone is going to complain about which 3 loss team should have been in over some other. You no longer have to go undefeated, however unless your name is Bama or some blue blood your odds of getting in with two losses aren't great even if it does happen. I can live with that, but don't really want it. I can't live with fans of 3 loss teams bitching about being left out.
The 8 team format would do this. It would make winning one's conference matter. And that is an objective criteria; you can't whine about it or rationalize around it. Win it and you are in it. My ideal is the winner of each P5, the best G5, and two more that you can play beauty contestant with. I suspect that the real reason for opposition to this is that some of you like those beauty contest and parsing all of the statistical tea leaves. Well that and seeing Nick Saban in a swimsuit.
No, and why would it be? You think I want Bama in every year?The 8 team format would do this. It would make winning one's conference matter. And that is an objective criteria; you can't whine about it or rationalize around it. Win it and you are in it. My ideal is the winner of each P5, the best G5, and two more that you can play beauty contestant with. I suspect that the real reason for opposition to this is that some of you like those beauty contest and parsing all of the statistical tea leaves. Well that and seeing Nick Saban in a swimsuit.
Well, one of the wants and desires I had in starting this thread was to piss off Alabama fans, and that last post of mine accomplished the task.
Frankly, Boise hasn't been good enough to defend too strenuously of late. And Sportshoopla is getting to be a collection of mainly a hundred or so passionate posters, the same guys that have been here for years. It's kind of a waste of time to be honest. But when I see two SEC teams get in while 7 conference champs get trips to the consolation bowl, yeah, it gets the old juices going. The system is still the problem as Chad Cripp pointed out in the Statesman article. Honestly, I can't think of a scenario in which the selection committee would have picked an undefeated G5 team as a playoff contender. They would have picked a two-loss major team or an elite conference also-ran first, like they did this year. To their credit, they did guarantee one spot, yup, one, as a G5 slot, but it's usually to the lowest rated of the new year's bowls. So in TV playoff money, the SEC gets half of the loot, while all 65 G5 teams and 5 conferences get a couple of crumbs after that share is split up. The rich get richer...
Besides, Spinny was special. He was like fishing for carp or squawfish, er, pike minnows, all I did was drag a lure across the bottom, and he'd hit it every time.
So you won't see me around much, @BoiseStateFan27 . I had time off this week, so it was fun to rile up the old big school homers. You, 4Life, Mike, and Pitman will have to support Boise. But you guys kinda lost your teeth too from back in the days when we fought those guys tooth and nail. This will be me most of the time....
I brought up USC clearly because they are a two loss conference champ with a very bad loss. It isn't hard to find other examples. In the system you propose those teams are in and I want no part of that. There is nothing about that that is personal or just slamming your team. I've brought that up to others as an example.
and 
@ master of puppets defense.
