Who Is Elite?
In college football the pundits are saying that the SEC is not the "elite" conference that it used to be. Then again the Pac-10, Big 10 and Big XII North are having difficulty filling out bowl spots, and the Big East should be stripped of its automatic BCS bowl berth if it sends 6-5 Syracuse. The ACC is pretty good, but the leaders, Miami, Florida State and Va Tech, have all lost to sub .500 teams.
Is it possible that college football has attained NFL style parity?
I was at the Cal vs. USC game and aside from Cal's kicking game it was one of the best played and coached football games I've seen in the 12 years I've been attending such things. I saw highlights of Texas vs. Oklahoma and those are two really good teams. Auburn looks legit, but so did Tennessee and Georgia at one point.
Should we move the non-conference games to the middle of the schedule and arrange them so that the better teams in conferences play each other?
After week 4 of the season schedule weeks 7-9 against the elite of other conferences. Texas and Cal would get to settle who deserves to have one loss. Auburn could play USC to see if the Tigers really have improved this year, and West Virginia could have been sacrificed to Oklahoma and the Big East wouldn't take up Texas' or Utah's spot in the BCS, or better yet playoffs.
December isn't that important academically, it's half winter break at most schools. March is much more important academically and basketball manages to find the time to host a six round tournament. All I'm asking for is three rounds. Keep the Holiday Bowls, Insight Bowls, and Silicon Valley Classics alive. They will become like the NIT is to the NCAA tournament. It's good sport and a postseason berth in the many years that your team isn't good enough to compete for a national championship.
Even a sudden death round would be better than the current system. If more than one BCS bowl winner has the same record (e.g. 12-0, 11-1), then send them to a neutral site to settle the score. If there's three, then the one with the highest BCS ranking gets a first round bye. It wouldn't happen every year, which would make it like the World Cup, but Americans would actually care about it.
You could select the neutral site each year at mid-season based upon the place least likely to send a team to the BCS series. Las Vegas comes to mind, as does the Pacific Northwest, or anywhere in Big XII North territory.
I oughta run college football.
Is it possible that college football has attained NFL style parity?
I was at the Cal vs. USC game and aside from Cal's kicking game it was one of the best played and coached football games I've seen in the 12 years I've been attending such things. I saw highlights of Texas vs. Oklahoma and those are two really good teams. Auburn looks legit, but so did Tennessee and Georgia at one point.
Should we move the non-conference games to the middle of the schedule and arrange them so that the better teams in conferences play each other?
After week 4 of the season schedule weeks 7-9 against the elite of other conferences. Texas and Cal would get to settle who deserves to have one loss. Auburn could play USC to see if the Tigers really have improved this year, and West Virginia could have been sacrificed to Oklahoma and the Big East wouldn't take up Texas' or Utah's spot in the BCS, or better yet playoffs.
December isn't that important academically, it's half winter break at most schools. March is much more important academically and basketball manages to find the time to host a six round tournament. All I'm asking for is three rounds. Keep the Holiday Bowls, Insight Bowls, and Silicon Valley Classics alive. They will become like the NIT is to the NCAA tournament. It's good sport and a postseason berth in the many years that your team isn't good enough to compete for a national championship.
Even a sudden death round would be better than the current system. If more than one BCS bowl winner has the same record (e.g. 12-0, 11-1), then send them to a neutral site to settle the score. If there's three, then the one with the highest BCS ranking gets a first round bye. It wouldn't happen every year, which would make it like the World Cup, but Americans would actually care about it.
You could select the neutral site each year at mid-season based upon the place least likely to send a team to the BCS series. Las Vegas comes to mind, as does the Pacific Northwest, or anywhere in Big XII North territory.
I oughta run college football.
posted by Accidental Guru at 3:34 PM
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What? You mean.... you don't?
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