More importantly, this won't be a post on Ohio State (not yet anyway
and not because I don't want too, I'm just being patient).
However, everybody knows the news right now, Florida will be playing
Ohio State for the national Championship.
Dan has commented twice on the BCS and its inability to work. What
always made me mad about the BCS was that if Notre Dame finishes in the
Top 12 in the polls, they get to go to a BSC game. To me, that's absolutely
ridiculous.
I really thought Dan was right about this issue, until I heard Jim Tressel, the
Ohio State coach comment on the BCS this evening.
Tressel stated that his team will be playing the 13th game of the year. If
the BCS went to a playoff system, does that mean that teams will be playing
15 or 16 games in a year? What would that do to young college players
who basically would be playing a "pro" schedule if they made the playoffs?
And he's right. College football is not the pros. Here's my plan:
- All college teams drop a game from their schedule (non-conference)
- The top six teams as rated by the computers are eligible for the playoffs
- Teams rated 1 & 2 get a byte <>Team # 3 plays team # 6 at a bowl site Team # 4 plays team # 5 at a bowl site
- Team # 1 plays winner #3/#6 at a bowl site
- Team # 2 plays winner #4/#5 at a bowl site
- Those two winners play in the National Championship game
most major college football programs schedule a "patsy" early on in the season.
For Ohio State, it was "Northern Illinois. More importantly, what's the point of the
"patsy" game? Its all about money for both schools, nothing more, nothing less.
Taking that game off the schedule makes up for any game that the team headed
for the BSC would have to play. In fact, the more I think about what I have laid
out here, I really think I'm a genius.
But for now, until the BSC adopts my plan, let's all agree that for 2006, the BCS worked
3 comments:
This is, of course, bullshit. Michigan played one LESS game than Florida and just sat there while Florida passed them in the polls after their sloppy victory over Arkansas.
I could go on and on, but have covered most of these points already.
Tressels point about caring about the players is bullshit too. Think those college athletes he cares so very much about are doing tons of homework during the whole month of MARCH when we are playing hoops? And what about all of the scholastic hopes and dreams of all of the kids playing in Division 1-aa, 2 and 3 that ALREADY have a PLAYOFF SYSTEM AND ALREADY PLAY SIXTEEN GAMES A YEAR.
And really PS, do you actually think that college football isn't pro football anyways? That is the most ridiculous part of the whole thing.
Another alternative is described at [1] using the Swiss system tournament. It's specifically designed for short tournaments with large number of participants and provides excellent games in each round and a robust system to determine the beat team.
[1] http://onehundredyards.blogspot.com/2006/12/alternative-to-current-bcs-system.html
The Chicago Tribune printed suggestions from fans today. They are all over the place, and a few looked just like PS's.
Everyone is talking about fixing this process...
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