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Originally Posted by pgardn
Missouri beat Illinois.
Back to square one.
Its a mess.
It should go something like this:
Regular season BCS used to determine 8 teams in the playoff (yes the moaning for the 8th spot will be heard).The regular season should count; the playoffs determine who
the best team is at the end of the season. Its like this in almost
every other sport.
But its not gonna happen... and its sad.
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It's not just moaning...how the heck do you detemine the top 8 teams when you can barely determine the top 2? I understand the appeal of a playoff, but if the same "formula" is followed for determining who is 6, 7, 8, 9, etc as you do for who is 1 or 2, it will be chaos.
For what it's worth, there shouldn't be any pre-season polls that weigh in the BCS formula. How can you rank a team in such an important structure that hasn't played a game yet? At least in college hoops there is a long enough season AND a tournament that invites 64 so there is usually a fair mix. But with a 10-12 game season, no tournament and a pre-season ranking that unfairly sets the table, I'm not sure how you can get a true "playoff" or bowl structure for football.