Originally Posted by GBBob

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,