Brutal NCAA football week for ranked teams

Huge shakeup in the top ten this week in college football.
#3 Louisville bows to Rutgers on Thursday
#4 Texas gets beat by Kansas State
#5 Auburn is humiliated by Georgia
#8 Cal gets spanked by Arizona

This is pretty wild! New top 8 should look like this after its realeased later this morning.
1) Ohio St
2) Michigan
3) Florida
4) USC
5) Notre Dame
6)Arkansas
7) West Virginia
8) Rutgers

Interesting thing is that we could have an incredible controversy at seasons end about who plays in the Championship game.
Obviously the winner of the Ohio St- Michigan game is gonna go. But then what?
USC-Notre Dame winner could be considered, as will the likely winner of the SEC championship matchup of Arkansas-Florida. What about Rutgers- Wrst Virginia game winner as well? And what if Ohio St- Michigan game is close. Wouldn't that game warrant a rematch if thats the case?
I think whats gonna happen here is that the winner of the Ohio ST-Michigan game is going to have to play one of 4 teams decided by the BCS, and that this is going to be very hard to decipher.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

razorbacks rule...im on them the rest of the way..

[gales0678]

matt - beware they have to play LSU

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Huge shakeup in the top ten this week in college football.
#3 Louisville bows to Rutgers on Thursday
#4 Texas gets beat by Kansas State
#5 Auburn is humiliated by Georgia
#8 Cal gets spanked by Arizona

This is pretty wild! New top 8 should look like this after its realeased later this morning.
1) Ohio St
2) Michigan
3) Florida
4) USC
5) Notre Dame
6)Arkansas
7) West Virginia
8) Rutgers

Interesting thing is that we could have an incredible controversy at seasons end about who plays in the Championship game.
Obviously the winner of the Ohio St- Michigan game is gonna go. But then what?
USC-Notre Dame winner could be considered, as will the likely winner of the SEC championship matchup of Arkansas-Florida. What about Rutgers- Wrst Virginia game winner as well? And what if Ohio St- Michigan game is close. Wouldn't that game warrant a rematch if thats the case?
I think whats gonna happen here is that the winner of the Ohio ST-Michigan game is going to have to play one of 4 teams decided by the BCS, and that this is going to be very hard to decipher.

Wow, wouldn't it be great if the winner of those four games met in a 4 team playoff? It would almost be like the sport has an 8 team playoff. It is so ridiculous that they still have not gone to a playoff system. It would make so much money and there is no excuse for not having one when D2 and D3 have had it for years. Have a 16 team playoff, play the first two rounds the last two weeks before exams (which would mean the other 100 teams not in the playoffs would get an extra two weeks of study time). Then have the semifinal games on New Years Day along with all the normal bowl games (which would include the 12 teams already eliminated). Then the final one week later. So simple yet they are so reluctant to do it.

[Scav]

The exact reason why they need to GET RID of the bowl games and use those sites to play a 16 team playoff, it would be 15 games (they already have like 30 bowls) and it could be over a 4 week PERIOD....Why not start the 1st week of December and play a REAL championship game on January 1st.....

It is amazing how much sense the above makes....

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Scav

The exact reason why they need to GET RID of the bowl games and use those sites to play a 16 team playoff, it would be 15 games (they already have like 30 bowls) and it could be over a 4 week PERIOD....Why not start the 1st week of December and play a REAL championship game on January 1st.....

It is amazing how much sense the above makes....

Because that interferes with the exam season. To do a 16 team playoff you would have to play the first two rounds before exams for it to be feasibile.

[saucon17]

Scav, totally agree with you. It works in three other divisions of college football. The only problem if it makes sense then the NCAA and the universities won't do it. The real problem is that it comes down to money and greed. The problem is that the schools and the NCAA get paid big $$$ if the make it as one of the eight teams that make it to one the four BCS bowl games. Another problem is school president, AD, and other major people in the universities get treated like royality when the reach a BCS Bowl Game.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by saucon17

Scav, totally agree with you. It works in three other divisions of college football. The only problem if it makes sense then the NCAA and the universities won't do it. The real problem is that it comes down to money and greed. The problem is that the schools and the NCAA get paid big $$$ if the make it as one of the eight teams that make it to one the four BCS bowl games. Another problem is school president, AD, and other major people in the universities get treated like royality when the reach a BCS Bowl Game.

Why wouldn't they get $$$ if they make it to the playoffs? Those games would draw monster ratings. I think the royal treatment would be even higher for the teams to make the finals than it is for the BCS Title game. The only legit excuse I've heard is that it makes the regular season games less meaningful but I still disagree with that, there would be even more meaningful games because trying to crack the top 16 late in the year would become a big deal. Also, if you gave auto bids to the small conference winners you would be awarding the top two schools by giving them easy first round opponents so that would keep it meaningful to finish in the top two in the regular season.

[saucon17]

Sniper you make good points. I think the football players deserve
some monetary gift from their schools and/or NCAA because the only way
their making this much money is from their football players, if they don't have the quality players they wouldn't be making big bucks. Look at the amount of money that some of these schools in the SEC and BIG TEN get each week from filling up 80,000 plus stadiums. Only reason their filling the stadiums is from their players and these players get nothing from it. Also exams have nothing to do with it. The have playoffs in DIV 1AA, DIV 2 & 3 that last a couples of weeks and it works perfectly fine.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by saucon17

Sniper you make good points. I think the football players deserve
some monetary gift from their schools and/or NCAA because the only way
their making this much money is from their football players, if they don't have the quality players they wouldn't be making big bucks. Look at the amount of money that some of these schools in the SEC and BIG TEN get each week from filling up 80,000 plus stadiums. Only reason their filling the stadiums is from their players and these players get nothing from it. Also exams have nothing to do with it. The have playoffs in DIV 1AA, DIV 2 & 3 that last a couples of weeks and it works perfectly fine.

Yes but you only have 4 teams still playing after the first week in December at those levels. That is fine but if D1 is down to 4 teams after December 3rd why not wait for New Years Day to start the final four? If you push everything back and make it so that 16 teams have interference with exams and that there are more weeks where the teams that advance do have a conflict then the problem gets worse. There is also significantly more time spent with the media at the D1 level that cuts into your study time.

if Arkansas can beat LSU and Florida they would certainly deserve it
although, it's hard to imagine a team that got destroyed at home 14-50
in the championship game
I'd say top contenders are 1) Florida 2) USC 3) Rutgers and 4) why not Wisconsin (10-1) and only loss @ Michigan?
you could make a strong case for the loser of OSU-Mich
but what if the Buckeyes win by 7 in Columbus
and Michigan wins by 1 in AZ?
it would seem like a tie & a bit redundant

[saucon17]

That would be great if they have the final 4 around New Years
I think the ratings will be outstanding. I'm going to watch the Div 3 Football
selection show now even knowing that Ithaca Bombers wont make it after losing to Cortland St. in overtime in the Cortica Jug game and losing their playoffs hopes.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Because that interferes with the exam season. To do a 16 team playoff you would have to play the first two rounds before exams for it to be feasibile.

Like they go to class anyways

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Scav

Like they go to class anyways

They don't need anymore excuses to skip them.