Geaux LSU Tigers!!!!!

[adder70]

Clearly the BCS system does not perform it's designed task. I say we return to the old system where bowls choose their teams using their own criteria or conference agreements, and just let the polls award a team with the perceived Nat'l Championship.

Any playoff system only rewards the team that happens to be playing well in January, not the team that has played best all year. By the same token, the polls have always favored the team that loses early. To reward a team for improvement during the season is great, but why penalize the team that took care of business at the start of the season if each has lost the same number of games with a similar strength of schedule?

In short, the whole National championship is a simply opinions and not reality, so who really cares anyway.

 

[mofosaurus]

and if you make me come looking for you, my friend Rocko gets upset

Hey Homers, don't be sad but 48 to 17 says it all

there's always next year

when my Bruins play USC next year I hope we destroy them because I have no doubt the game will have national title implications but not for us thanks to our coach Karl "P.C." Dorall

sooner saying your team was overrated is not an insult, its just a fact (see K St. 35 Ok U 7 and LSU 21 Ok U 14)

 

[wstein]

Hmmm, I'll remember that next time you agree to anything, since you salute the three coaches who chose to not abide by previous agreements. As for myself, I wouldn't salute people for showing a complete lack of integrity.

Geez, go back on your commitments and be saluted... No wonder the integrity of so many in this country has gone in the toilet. Doesn't ANYBODY have ethics anymore?!

All the coaches agreed at the beginning of the season to vote for the winner of the Sugar Bowl as the National Champion. And here, 3 coaches go back against their earlier agreement with the BCS. What does that teach their players?

I watched both games and feel that USC deserved to be in the Sugar Bowl, a little more then OU. The only reason I don't feel OU shouldn't have been there was their lose in the Big 12 Conf. championship (sorry sooner fans, I feel the conf championship is important if your playing for the national championship). If LSU and USC had played in the Sugar Bowl, who knows how the outcome would have been.

Congrates to both the Trojans and to the Tigers. They both played one hellva season.

Paul

 

[Sooner1]

I think the BCS might have the same problem next year. All 3 of these teams (USC, LSU, OU) are very young. I know who will be left out next year if it's the same situation and deservedly so. OU got whipped by K-State and got beat by LSU. In my opinion everybody should have to play the same number of games. If you don't want to be part of the BCS then don't be. I'm sure a lot of the non-BCS conferences would be happy to take the place of the Pac-10. If you do decide to be in the BCS then agree to follow the rules. If OU had played in the Rose Bowl instead of USC and they beat Michigan I wouldn't consider them to be national champs. I don't think anyone else would either. They would still have only 1 loss just like the winner of the Sugar Bowl. Would USC be #1 in the AP if Oklahoma would have beaten K-State in the Big 12 and then lost to LSU in the Sugar Bowl? I don't think so. LSU would have been undisputed champs. And like you said MardiGrasTexan
I know where the trophy is. BATON ROUGE!!!!

 

[Sooner1]

Overrated University
Gino Torreta (I know who he was)
Exposed like Pee Wee Herman in a movie theatre. (didn't that happen in California?)

Not insults?

Yeah OU really does suck.

 

[ScubaTexan]

Hey Homers, don't be sad but 48 to 17 says it all

48-17 speaks volumes.....mainly, that LSU was 16 first-place votes from being unanimous national champions. And if the score had gotten much worse (which it could have easily done), I believe the Tigers would have gotten at least 16 more first-place votes. It's only because it was a 7-point finish that I put USC No. 1 and LSU No. 2.

 

[ScubaTexan]

Maybe the future of the BCS holds a playoff style format for the top 4 teams...round 1 to be played mid december....then we could decide without a doubt what 2 teams should play for the title in the new year.

OK, we all know the BCS is a pretty controversial way to determine a national champion, for the most part (at least this year, anyway). Well, I came up with a proposal for a Division 1-A tournament back in 1988 and submitted it to the NCAA, which seemed to like my idea. They said I should send it to all 118 member institutions and their administrations.

Anyway, I've modified it a bit and I would like to show you the fruits of my labor. It involves the final BCS standings, but only for seeding purposes after the first round. It also incorporates the traditional ties to the Big Four bowl games.

The automatic qualifiers for the 8-team field are the CHAMPIONS of the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, Pac 10 and Big East. There are also two at-large spots, of which the champions of the MAC, Conference USA, Mountain West and WAC are eligible (according to final BCS standings).

The four bowl games (Fiesta, Rose, Sugar and Orange) are all played on January 1, as was traditional in the past. The matchups are as follows:

ORANGE: ACC champion vs. either Big East champion or At-Large*--11am ET
SUGAR: SEC champion vs. either At-Large* or the Big East champion--2pm ET
ROSE: Big 10 champion vs. Pac 10 champion--5pm ET
FIESTA: Big 12 champion vs At-Large*--8pm ET
* -- two teams from the same conference CANNOT play in a first round game

The four first round winners advance to the semifinals, to be played on the second Saturday in January. The four teams that advance will be seeded according to their final ranking in the BCS, with the top seed playing the lowest seed, and the second and third seeds clashing. The two semifinals will be played in one of the four bowl stadiums from the first round (on a rotational basis each year). One semifinal will be played in the afternoon and the other in prime time.

The two semifinals winners will then play for the national championship on the third Saturday in January, in prime time, at one of the remaining bowl stadiums (again on a rotational basis). Winner claims the crystal national championship trophy. Simple as that.

Based on this year's eight BCS teams, this would be the current setup:

FIRST ROUND, Jan. 1, 2004
ORANGE: Florida State (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (12-1)*
SUGAR: LSU (12-1) vs. Miami, Fla (10-2)
ROSE: USC (11-1) vs. Michigan (10-2)
FIESTA: Kansas State (11-3) vs. Ohio State (10-2)
*--rematches within the same season are to be avoided in the first round, if at all possible.

SEMIFINALS, Jan. 10, 2004
MIAMI: Highest remaining seed vs. lowest remaining seed
PASADENA: Two middle seeds

CHAMPIONSHIP, Jan. 17, 2004
NEW ORLEANS: Semifinal winners

By the way, the other bowl games carry on business as usual. Under this system, the playoffs and bowl games co-exist in a happy medium.
Your feedback is more than welcome.

 

[mofosaurus]

In mathematics, a proof is a demonstration that, given certain axioms, some statement of interest is necessarily true.

In other words, anyone can make up a mathematical formula, i. e. the BCS, but it doesn't necessarily make it true, have fun playing with your glass ball

to endorse a false chapionship game would be easy, it takes integrity to stand up to the hooded mob and speak the truth

I don't mean to pick on Ok U but things tend to be overblown thereabouts (Can you say Bosworth?)

 

[Sooner1]

Ok ScubaTexan you're in charge.

 

[ScubaTexan]

Ok ScubaTexan you're in charge.

Like my idea, huh?