Hypothetical 2005 NCAA D1 football playoffs - Page 4

Skipaway · 12-05-2005, 01:37 AM

There just won't be a solution for the conference alignment issues, since conferences are not just designed for football.

matskralc · 12-05-2005, 01:45 AM

The thing that I love the most about the bowl system the way it is currently constituted is that, generally speaking, teams playing each other are of equal caliber. I sit at home during Bowl Week and watch every single bowl game: very few of them truly suck, because the teams are of equal ability. (Yes, there are the Utah vs. Pitt Fiesta Bowl exceptions, but I'm a Pitt fan, so I'll allow it

) Who on earth wants to turn on a Dec 31 bowl game to watch Texas destroy Akron 61-0? I care way more about maximizing good, compelling football games than I do about deciding a "true" champion. While most people say they want a champion via tournament, if they were told half the games were going to suck and bore the hell out of them, they'd probably change their minds.

TonyJ · 12-05-2005, 01:50 AM

Yeah, as an example I'm a BSU fan and while it would have been great for the school in terms of $$$ to have been in a BCS game last season, it was much more entertaining to see them play a very competitive game against Louisville as opposed to getting destroyed by a Texas or Michigan or whoever.

rangers85 · 12-05-2005, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by matskralc

The thing that I love the most about the bowl system the way it is currently constituted is that, generally speaking, teams playing each other are of equal caliber. I sit at home during Bowl Week and watch every single bowl game: very few of them truly suck, because the teams are of equal ability. (Yes, there are the Utah vs. Pitt Fiesta Bowl exceptions, but I'm a Pitt fan, so I'll allow it

) Who on earth wants to turn on a Dec 31 bowl game to watch Texas destroy Akron 61-0? I care way more about maximizing good, compelling football games than I do about deciding a "true" champion. While most people say they want a champion via tournament, if they were told half the games were going to suck and bore the hell out of them, they'd probably change their minds.

Going by this year where you take the 11 champions and top 5 non-champions as at large, at most you have 3 out of 15 suck. And all those would take place next week. Past that, I don't think you'd see a game that'd suck.

Going on last year's you'd probably have only 2 games that truly sucked. Out of all the actual bowl games, I bet you have more than 2 or 3 that actually sucked.

Cooleyvol · 12-05-2005, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Aordolin

And lets say you do get it all arranged, say a playoff game which happens to feature (for the sake of argument) Oregon vs Wisconsin. Why on earth would anyone at the Liberty Bowl care for that matchup? Who in Memphis is going to care? No offense to those schools but those arent exactly schools that travel really well.

I'd think they'd travel a bit better than this year's Liberty Bowl matchup of Tulsa/Fresno St.

In the end, no one in Memphis cares about either matchup other than the diehard college fan who'll go regardless of who's playing (me for one). I've Liberty tix already, but I love college football.

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12-05-2005, 01:45 AM	#62
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12-05-2005, 01:50 AM	#63
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