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Old 12-06-2005, 09:43 PM
HajiShirazu HajiShirazu is offline
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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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Old 12-06-2005, 10:17 PM
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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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Old 12-06-2005, 11:03 PM
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BCS.

MyTurn, I would argue the system does NOT determine a "true champion." It is inherently flawed because it does not allow every D-1 team a legitimate opportunity to win the title.

In basketball, the best team wins far less often, but you always control your own destiny. You can't be undefeated and still get shut out of the title chase (like Auburn/Utah/Marshall have been) just because of someone's opinion.

In basketball, if you don't win the national title, it's because you lost at least one game somewhere that you shouldn't have lost. No such protection in football.
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Old 12-06-2005, 11:09 PM
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old system > BCS > proposed playoffs

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I believe you got this backwards, sir.

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I hope that is a mistake.
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Old 12-06-2005, 11:13 PM
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You want to see the best teams in the country butt heads. You want Miami-Washington (91), USC-Texas, OSU-Miami.

The best system for CFB is bowls for money + these games between the best teams in the country.

Personally, I really like the 4-team playoff system.
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Old 12-06-2005, 11:17 PM
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old system <font color="red">&lt;</font> BCS <font color="red">&lt;</font> proposed playoffs

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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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Old 12-06-2005, 11:25 PM
MyTurn2Raise MyTurn2Raise is offline
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ruined my post
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Old 12-06-2005, 11:34 PM
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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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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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Old 12-07-2005, 12:31 AM
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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.

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Old 12-07-2005, 12:33 AM
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the games are all meaningful throughout the whole season. it's the one sport with a true champion



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That's laughable. Tell the kids at Auburn or Utah how meaningful their regular season games were.
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