BCS Nat Title game Scenarios

[gales0678]

Mike,

First don't eliminate teams becuase they lose a game at home during the regular season (LSU lost to Gators at home in '04 and came back and co-shares the title with USC)

Next - I agree the "best two teams should play in the title game"

USC lost to Oregeon St not exactly Ohio St - I can't see how any computer or human could put them in that game over Mich.

ND - Blowout loss to MICH at home - The voters will never put them ahead of ND in the polls and that is 2/3 rd's BCS

Arkansas need ND to beat USC to have any chance. (arkansas only loss they were not 100% in the opener against USC)

Florida - if it beats FSU and beats Ark in the SEC is the only other team besides Mich that should get to play Ohio St

Originally Posted by gales0678

Mike,

First don't eliminate teams becuase they lose a game at home during the regular season (LSU lost to Gators at home in '04 and came back and co-shares the title with USC)

Next - I agree the "best two teams should play in the title game"

USC lost to Oregeon St not exactly Ohio St - I can't see how any computer or human could put them in that game over Mich.

ND - Blowout loss to MICH at home - The voters will never put them ahead of ND in the polls and that is 2/3 rd's BCS

Arkansas need ND to beat USC to have any chance. (arkansas only loss they were not 100% in the opener against USC)

Florida - if it beats FSU and beats Ark in the SEC is the only other team besides Mich that should get to play Ohio St

I'm of the opinion if there are just two slots in the championship game...then the two representatives should be from different conferences, or two conference champions, Michigan was not a conference champion...they can run the table next year with OSU in Ann Arbor and a Hart & Henne return

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by BellamyRd.

I'm of the opinion if there are just two slots in the championship game...then the two representatives should be from different conferences, or two conference champions, Michigan was not a conference champion...they can run the table next year with OSU in Ann Arbor and a Hart & Henne return

If the OSU-Michigan game was in Michigan then I'd absolutely agree that the national championship game should not be between two teams from the same conference. With the game being at Ohio St though and Michigan only losing by 3 I don't think it is very fair for them to be excluded if they finish second in their conference but lost by less of a margin than home field advantage accounts for.

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

If the OSU-Michigan game was in Michigan then I'd absolutely agree that the national championship game should not be between two teams from the same conference. With the game being at Ohio St though and Michigan only losing by 3 I don't think it is very fair for them to be excluded if they finish second in their conference but lost by less of a margin than home field advantage accounts for.

do the computers take points into account?
now Michigan did score a late TD and two-point conversion
Florida was down by 4 to auburn and did that dumb
"let's pass the ball to each other" ala Cal-Stanford
allowing auburn to score a TD on a fumble to win by 10 (not 4)
you never know, the late Michigan TD, and UF foolishness
could make the slight difference in who gets #2
but I'd still maintain it should be two conference champions
IF there are only two spots
if you want to make a playoff with 4, 8, 16 teams~then whatever

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by BellamyRd.

do the computers take points into account?
now Michigan did score a late TD and two-point conversion
Florida was down by 4 to auburn and did that dumb
"let's pass the ball to each other" ala Cal-Stanford
allowing auburn to score a TD on a fumble to win by 10 (not 4)
you never know, the late Michigan TD, and UF foolishness
could make the slight difference in who gets #2
but I'd still maintain it should be two conference champions
IF there are only two spots
if you want to make a playoff with 4, 8, 16 teams~then whatever

Nope, computers ignore the margin of victory. 16 team playoff with the first two rounds played the two weeks following Thanksgiving at the site of the higher seed is the way to go. Then the final four at a bowl site on January 1st and the championship game a week later. That gives them a nice long break and would allow the 12 teams eliminated before the final four to still get a bowl game.