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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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BCS finally gets it right! Helll yeaaa!
May 1, 2012, 5:06 PM
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BCS finally gets it right
May 1, 2012, 4:53 PM
Rick Reilly
Why aren't schools closed today? Why aren't people making out with complete strangers on street corners? Why isn't your couch on fire?
People, rejoice! We're going to get a four-team college football playoff! It's the Finally Four!
In fact, right now, somebody ought to be bronzing meeting room 303 on the third floor of the Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. Because that's where Twelve Good Men -- the 11 FBS commissioners plus Notre Dame's AD -- made history last week. They hammered out approval for a four-team playoff.
All praise the four-fathers!
"They were aware of the historical significance," says BCS executive director Bill Hancock, a great American. "It was done very thoughtfully. They knew."
Look, I've personally been beating this horse for 34 years. Fans have been begging for it for over 100. Sanity is finally here! Why aren't you chugging Dom Perignon out of high-heels?
Yes, we still need the university presidents to sign off on it, but trust me, this thing is vacuum-sealed. When SEC commissioner Mike Slive, a great American, comes out of the meetings and says, "I've always tried not to use the dreaded P word, but now we're all using it!" ... you KNOW it's a go.
One will play Four and Two will play Three. Are you listening? The four highest-ranked teams have a chance! That's a 100 percent improvement on what we have now, which is dog meat!
So who wants in on my bracket contest? Where are President Obama's picks? You have a 12.5 percent chance of a perfect bracket.
One will play Four and Two will play Three. Are you listening? The four highest-ranked teams have a chance! That's a 100 percent improvement on what we have now, which is dog meat!
No more Auburns (12-0, ranked third, 2004) getting robbed! No more Cincinnatis and TCUs (both 12-0 in 2009, third- and fourth-ranked) getting double-shafted! No more USCs (12-1 in 2003, third-ranked, with five first-round draft picks) getting reamed!
Sure, now fans will ##### about good teams outside the top four getting left out, like Boise State and Utah, but what do you want? When the French revolutionaries freed the Bastille, the prisoners didn't go, "Hey, wait a minute. I had a scarf."
Sure, there are a lot of details to be worked out about scheduling, venues and teams by the 2014 season -- when all heaven breaks loose -- but I'm going to solve them right now:
Scheduling: The dumbest thing college football did in the past 10 years was give away New Year's Day. We take it back with January Joy. The semifinals will be played on Jan. 1 -- no matter what day of the week it is.
The championship game will be played exactly seven days later, because we don't want our student-athletes to miss any more of the classes they never were going to anyway. (Remember lies like that they used to tell us?)
So it's on like ComicCon! Please expect ratings of about 40. And billions more corporate dollars every year from companies wanting to be part of the fun. Will they give it to the athletes? One revolution at a time!
Venues: Some people think No. 1 and No. 2 should get to host the semifinals in the bowls they're attached to now. So if the top-ranked team is from the Big 12, the Fiesta Bowl will hold one. If the top-ranked team is from the SEC, the Sugar Bowl will get one. If the ACC is No. 1, then the ... nah, just kidding.
Of course, that idea is completely moronic.
The most unfair part of the BCS bowls is that they're never north. They're always in the SPF 50 towns. It's unfair to teams like Ohio State and Notre Dame, teams that are built for the snow and the wind and the 4-yard nose-bending gain, to always have to go south to win titles. So we fix that right now.
Therefore, 1 and 2 will play at their home stadiums in the semis.
The championship game will be played in a bowl that will rotate between the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange and Cotton, unless one of the four teams is from a tied-in conference, in which case it'll take its turn the next season.
You're going, "Oh, no! What about our beloved Mega Dollars Bowl and all our neat-o blazers?" And I say, "Play it! It just won't mean anything, like 34 out of 35 bowl games now."
Teams: Who picks the Finally Four? By the end of the summer, the Twelve Good Men will decide whether to use the current BCS formula, a revised one, or a selection committee.
The selection committee is a bad idea on the order of the AMC Pacer. We'll simply use the same BCS formula we've been using, with one exception: No more computers. Do you really want the same machine that gave you the Love Virus picking your college football champion?
But this is all just deciding what kind of candles you want on the cake that a nude Sofia Vergara is about to jump out of.
"Most fans I've talked to have all said the same thing," says Hancock, who, did I mention, is one great American? "They go, 'I don't care about all that, where the games will be and how you'll do it. I'm just glad it's finally here."
People, we have a four-team, damn-straight, you're-a-real-sport-now college football playoff!
Why aren't you hanging from a lamppost?
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What do I want? A 16 team playoff. 4 is good, but
May 1, 2012, 5:11 PM
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won't be satisfied till 16
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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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I think 8 would be perfect.***
May 1, 2012, 5:13 PM
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I agree. Esp from a TV & $$$ standpoint***
May 1, 2012, 10:26 PM
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Agree with 8
May 1, 2012, 10:36 PM
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That would accommodate the 6 automatic qualifier conferences with 2 at large that could include a number 2 conference finisher and/or the non automatic qualifier conferences, and would only take 3 weeks to complete.
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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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Same with 16.***
May 1, 2012, 5:22 PM
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You better believe 2 of them 4 will always be sec teams***
May 1, 2012, 5:47 PM
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That's written in the by-laws******
May 1, 2012, 5:51 PM
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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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How can they when they dont have the chance***
May 1, 2012, 6:12 PM
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I know one thing OSU woulda got past the 50
May 1, 2012, 6:14 PM
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that was pathetic and showed what a fraud it was
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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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I believe the team in question, Bama, got past
May 1, 2012, 8:18 PM
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the 50 quite often. There was no question of LSU being in the game..
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Re: Same with 16.***
May 1, 2012, 6:11 PM
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Sorry 17 doesn't have a beef like #5
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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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Heaven:
May 1, 2012, 5:26 PM
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1. Huge HD flat screen at Shealy's with great beer on tap watching college football final four.
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Orange Blooded [2217]
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MMMMM Shealy's
May 1, 2012, 5:53 PM
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You want to talk about food comas. I swear I've eaten my body weight every time I've walked in there.
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A 16 team playoff is the only way to do it. If you're going
May 1, 2012, 10:33 PM
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to have a D-1A playoff, then every team has to start the season with a shot at the title. No more of this institutionalized heirarchy in 1A. 11 conference champions and 5 at large bids. It is the only way to do it.
Again, I prefer bowl games, and maintain that we won't know what we had until it's ruined. None the less, if we're going to a playoff, you have to go to 16 and be done with it.
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I agree with 16 teams
May 2, 2012, 4:03 AM
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with all conference champs; eliminating the auto qualifier, and some sort of lottery to decide who plays who... no seeding.
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Do they have to pick two teams
May 1, 2012, 5:15 PM
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from each SEC division, or can all four come from the WEST?
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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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Assume that last year the four teams would have been:
May 1, 2012, 5:24 PM
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1. LSU
2. Bama
3. OSU
4. Oregon
Bama would have beaten OSU by at least 10, imo, and LSU would have done the same with Oregon. The result probably would have been the same but you never know.
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Orange Blooded [2217]
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Re: Assume that last year the four teams would have been:
May 1, 2012, 5:54 PM
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But they would have at least earned it. And I think OSU would have made it a game with Bama. That offense was potent.
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OSU woulda won it all
May 1, 2012, 5:54 PM
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WV put up 600 yds on LSU imagine what OSU Woulda done. Heck Ga south racked up 350 rushing yes on bama. Easy to look great on D vs bad offense
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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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LOL, teams have aberrations. Look at LSU-Oregon and
May 1, 2012, 6:02 PM
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LSU beat the pi$$ out of WVU. Wofford did to us what GSU did to Bama.
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Oregon was red hot at the end of the year
May 1, 2012, 6:10 PM
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Bottomline is the two teams that Put up the most yds vs LSU were outside the sec. BAMA beat 3 teams with winning records. Bama and LSU were not all espn wanted us to believe. WV was about to win that game when they gave up a 100 yrd ko return. They couldn't stop WV at that point. All we have is what if cause of this SEC bias system and a 4 team playoff isn't going to help much ahem perhaps 3 are from the sec
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Bottom line is we'll never ###### know because the system
May 1, 2012, 9:59 PM
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is a joke now. This isn't perfect, but at least it's in the right direction!
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Oculus Spirit [82999]
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LSU and Bama were red-hot also. LSU beat Ole Miss 62-3
May 2, 2012, 8:37 AM
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@ Ole Miss, Arkansas 41-17, and UGA 42-10.
Bama killed Auburn 42-14 on the road in their last game.
Oregon lost to USC in November.
What difference do the yards make when you completely destroy each team? LSU/Bama would give points and yards to Oregon/OSU, but would beat each convincingly. I'd pull for Oregon/OSU but feel it'd be an uphill battle.
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Raise your hand if you think.......
May 1, 2012, 5:39 PM
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espn will some how figure out a way to get 4 sec teams into the four team playoff!!!
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They'll have 2 no joke. They'll try and get 3 eventhough
May 1, 2012, 5:58 PM
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last years game proved to suck outloud and no one watched
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Four fathers? Man that is expensive on Father's Day.***
May 1, 2012, 6:51 PM
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Orange Blooded [3571]
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Rick Reilly is classic...I encourage everyone to read a
May 1, 2012, 7:11 PM
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book he wrote called "Who's Your Caddy"...
It is laugh out loud funny.
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4-team playoff is BS, need an 8 or 16 team playoff. I'm not
May 1, 2012, 7:13 PM
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at all excitd about a four team deal.
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agree that it needs to be 8 teams...but its a start***
May 1, 2012, 10:56 PM
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Orange Blooded [4505]
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Some of you will not be happy until
May 1, 2012, 7:16 PM
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the bowls are gone and a playoff system is in place which will mean Clemson will be home after the regular season most years. This will also be the same for chickens, and GA.
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Plenty of room for a playoff and bowl games.
May 1, 2012, 7:21 PM
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Even hypothesizing about a 16 team (too many IMO) playoff, that is only 8 less bowl games.
Still plenty of other games to be played.
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Re: Some of you will not be happy until
May 1, 2012, 7:21 PM
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I completely agree, I am in favor of a 4-8 team playoff but I still think they should allow the teams that would have made a bowl game to still have that opportunity.
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Should cut out nonconference games
May 1, 2012, 7:55 PM
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Anfd have a 128 team tournament to determine the legitimate national champion.
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Is an SECheat team on probation eligible?
May 1, 2012, 8:20 PM
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Or would the ground peckers have to suck it for the next three years?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
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great now get it to 16 with all conf. champs***
May 2, 2012, 8:41 AM
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There are only 11
May 2, 2012, 10:28 AM
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D1 (fbs) conferences...
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I say it should 8 team playoff after conference champ games
May 2, 2012, 10:28 AM
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This would be my plan.
Stipulation is 8 super conferences with 12 teams each (every conference needs cream puffs too so the mediocrity can have aspirations of success)
-Full year of games to become champs in your division and get your BCS ranking as it is done now
-Play conference championship game & update BCS ranking
-The conference losers and standard teams go to regular bowl games as the same now (There may be some teams that lost their conference champ game that are higher ranked than some other conference champions. That is the thing with playoffs. You lose, your out - starts with confernce championship game. This will be solved by having the top 8 spots reserved for conference champions. After the conference championship game the BCS rankings are done and whatever the figures are from current ranking rules will be used to slot the 8 conference champs into the top 8 spots in order followed by all other teams with their BCS rank starting at 9.)
-The 8 conference champions play in 8 team playoff
-1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5 played in fiesta, orange, sugar, rose
-winners play round 2 in (rotate bowls) fiesta, orange .
-winners play round 3 in (rotate again) sugar
-left out bowl can have an extra "premiere" standard bowl with the two teams outside of the playoff so that each of the top 4 bowls have the same amount of high quality bowls each year.
-all the other bowls pick their teams after the BCS bowls have been set.
-15 game max per year-
-11 Regular Conference Game schedule ends by Sat after Thanksgiving (2012 year - 11/24/2012)
-1st Round Conference Championship Games (16 teams) - 4th Sat before Jan. 1st (2012 year - 12/8/2012)
-2nd Round Quarterfinals (8 teams) - 2nd Sat before Jan. 1st (2012 year - 12/22/2012)
-3rd Round Semifinals (4 teams) - Sat before Jan. 1st (2012 year - 12/29/2012)
-Premier Bowl & Standard Bowls between Dec. 23rd - Jan. 1st)
-Championship Game played on the first Sat after Jan. 1st - (2012 year - 1/5/2013)
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