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Originally posted by Dumpy
I don't think we'll ever agree who the most deserving team to play Miami last year was. I think Nebraska, some of you think Oregon, some of you think Colorado, and that's fine. In all honesty, I don't think any of them were very deserving. Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas all had a chance to claim their spot as the number 2 team, but they all choked.
Yea, we won't. And there is no real way of proving who was more deserving. The BCS says one thing. The polls say another. And the fans say another. You ccould sort of see this coming though. With all those upsets that allowed this to come to a point, you almost knew something would happen. And it did. The BCS wasn't made to do this. All those upsets just crashed it. The BCS isn't perfect. And we need to find something to correct its problems.
I like the BCS. It's far from a perfect system, but it's better than any previous system. If you look at the final BCS standings last year, you'll see that all of the computers had Nebraska ranked second or third, while the human voters had them fourth. Of course you look at that and think, "What the hell is wrong with those crazy computers? The BCS sucks!" But the only thing wrong with the computers is that, unlike the human polls, they don't work on a "bubble" system, where a team keeps rising if the keep winning, but when they lose the bubble pops and they fall like a rock. The Colorado game was Nebraska's first loss, so why should they fall below a bunch of 2 and even 3 loss teams?
I don't like the BCS. Its far from perfect. but it is the best we have and, chances are, we won't see this crash again for a long time. But the thing I dislike most about it is that it DOESN'T work on the bubble system. Every game is exciting that way. Lose one earlier in the season, you are in bad shape, but it could be worse. Lose one down the stretch and you are screwed. It means that every game, especially the late season ones are must wins. So if you lose, so sorry, try again next year. And winning the championship is a real accomplishment under all that pressure, all those hits, and all those teams out to get you. But the only reason Nebraska fell behind those 2 and 3 loss teams is because of the huge defecit. And it wasn't like they really did much to get back to the top. Nebraska was quiet for a long time, but still rose up. Its a 2 way system in the polls and if they rank too low, they put em higher. A human touch is the only thing that the computers can't do. Logic isn't all you need to use.
The other "problem" with the computers is that they aren't biased pieces of sh*t that try to take matters into their own hands if they don't like what the human polls spit out. If you'll remember, last year, after all those upsets, when it was realized that Nebraska still had a shot at the Rose Bowl, many of the voters decided that was wrong and tried to stop it. Before the final AP and Coaches polls came out, the AP had Colorado third and Nebraska fourth. The coaches had Nebraska third and Colorado fourth. So everyone bitched and moaned, so when the final poll came out, the coaches flip flopped NU and CU when NEITHER ONE OF THEM HAD PLAYED A GAME THE PREVIOUS WEEK!
That, my friends, is complete and utter bull sh*t.
I think you are talking about my human touch. Nebraska still had a shot and they flipflopped CU and NU. Because their hearts said that CU should still have a shot with all this they have done. CU made its voice known. NU sorta cracked. It wasn't bias. A lot of people dislike CU. They just felt that the NU/ CU game and the conference championships were too much to let go. So NU and CU got switched. But a computer doesn't have that passion. If sports was all logic and no heart, the yankees would win every year. ... Wait a minute...
So because of that, and that ridiculous "quality-win component", Colorado was a mere .05 points behind Nebraska, and so continued the bitching and moaning.
Before you say the quality win component is a good thing, let me give you a quick history lesson. It was added last year to prevent so-called travesties like the one that happend in 2000, when Florida State was number 2 ahead of Miami who had beat them, and Washington, who had beaten Miami. But let me point out that if this had been in place in '99, one-loss Nebraska would've likely finished ahead of undefeated Virginia Tech, and even I'll agree that that would've been wrong.
I do think that quality wins a pure crap. A win is a win, but you cannot put a number to these thing. You cannot rank a game like CU/ NU with a number. It should be outlawed, but it isn't. Quality wins are intangible. If a human poller thinks that some win is important enough, they will factor it and it might mean a rank or two. But a not really important win should be left alone. One of the things that gets me is that BYU was ranked so low becaus etheir schedule wasn't too good. so if your schedule sucks, you can't get a championship? That shouldn't happen, but it does. A big game cannot equal a number. It just cannot be done... done correctly at least.
My point is this quality win crap will cause more problems than it'll correct. They already watered it down this year, how long before they get rid of it entirely?
Dunno, but they should get rid of it soon. Poor BYU deserved a shot even though they would have lost. :p :D
All of that aside, I like the BCS, and have always liked the BCS for one simple reason: controversy. It creates controversy almost every year, and that make good entertainment. Who wasn't sitting on the edge of their seat during the BCS selection show last year, wondering who would play Miami? Or the year before, wondering if Florida State would go over Miami? Or the year before, wondering if Nebraska would sneak in there over V Tech?
But if it is causing controversy every year, is that really that good. Sure, it might be a little entertaining, but if everyone disagrees with it every single year, doesn't that signify that something is up. There is something they are missing or some bug in the computers because the BCS shouldn't disagree with what all coaches think, what all AP reporters think, and all fans think. America is majority rules so 100,000,000 should outway 1. But it doesn't.
Some of you would argue that we need a playoff system, but I say we alrady have one: the regular season. Every single game counts, and can make or break you. One loss is often all it takes to eliminmate you from the title picture. It puts so much more emphasis on the regular season than any other sport, that's why I like it. Give it a playoff system and you'd be taking away the one thing that us unique about college football.