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old system <font color="red"><</font> BCS <font color="red"><</font> proposed playoffs [/ QUOTE ] FYP Edit: After reading MyTurn2Raise's other posts on the subject, I see that the statement was intended to be against a playoff. Whoops. |
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I also much prefer the old system. It made more bowl games more interesting. Sports talk shows were more interesting. I liked the definite bowl tie-ins - Pac 10 v. Big 10 in the Rose Bowl, Big 8 in the Orange, etc.... I hate the BCS. I would much rather have 4 interesting bowls on Jan 1 than one sometimes championship game sometime later in January. [/ QUOTE ] |
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[ QUOTE ] I also much prefer the old system. It made more bowl games more interesting. Sports talk shows were more interesting. I liked the definite bowl tie-ins - Pac 10 v. Big 10 in the Rose Bowl, Big 8 in the Orange, etc.... I hate the BCS. I would much rather have 4 interesting bowls on Jan 1 than one sometimes championship game sometime later in January. [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] Co-Sign. I like the notion that not everything has a defined winner. I also like the fact that this way a 10-1 team can have a great season and not feel like they get screwed at the end. |
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I also much prefer the old system. It made more bowl games more interesting. Sports talk shows were more interesting. I liked the definite bowl tie-ins - Pac 10 v. Big 10 in the Rose Bowl, Big 8 in the Orange, etc.... I hate the BCS. I would much rather have 4 interesting bowls on Jan 1 than one sometimes championship game sometime later in January. [/ QUOTE ] I agree Is it next year where they are having a seperate championship game? Meaning, one of the 4 main bowls aren't going to host it but there is a game a week afterward? If so, does that mean those 4 bowls will go back somewhat to the old system. For example, the Big 10 and Pac 10 will again be the qualifiers in the Rosebowl. I thought I saw a '5th' game being added. Just wondering. b |
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Of course the BCS is better than the old system, since at least now we are guaranteed one meaningful game (although the rest are still totally pointless.)
College football is still about as much of a sport as figure skating or gymnastics in my view, since the champion is decided in the same way. |
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college football is the only true sport left in my opinion
the games are all meaningful throughout the whole season..it's the one sport with a true champion |
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college football is the only true sport left in my opinion the games are all meaningful throughout the whole season..it's the one sport with a true champion [/ QUOTE ] I see it differently. College football is the only sport without a "true champion". That's the argument the majority of university presidents and bowl proponents advance for the staus quo: everybody wins. Kinda like little league. A playoff would not render the regular season irrelevant any more than how, under the current system, the early part of the season often doesn't matter. The polls reward losing early over losing late; this is the logic for the scheduling of UF-Tennessee and Florida State-Miami - the losing team has time to climb back up the polls. |
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the games are all meaningful throughout the whole season. it's the one sport with a true champion [/ QUOTE ] That's laughable. Tell the kids at Auburn or Utah how meaningful their regular season games were. |
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you're right...Auburn got screwed
That's the one team I've ever felt bad about since the BCS thing started I guess I'm a big conference bully when it comes to Utah, but point taken I coul live with another game added a week after the bowl season that would rotate around like the superbowl. My problem is that I see just as much inequities and injustice with 4 and 8 team playoffs. That is the reason I made those posts. Who gets in? by what reasoning? Who's left out? Why? I see the playoff system as even further reinforcing the college football oligopoly of traditional powers. |
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Let's see.
Auburn got screwed in 2004 USC got semiscrewed in 2003 Oregon got screwed in 2001 Washington and Miami got screwed in 2000 C'mon, old system but in the event of a disputed national championship there's an extra game. |
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