If anyone doesn't already have enough reason to hate the current system, a 6-6 Arizona State (on a 4 game losing skid) vs 7th ranked Boise State in the MAACO bowl should do the trick. A 10-2 TCU vs La Tech? Really? 7-5 Iowa vs #14 Oklahoma? I'm guessing the Sooners are excited about that one. It's gonna be weird not having Bowl games during January 1st. That's a bummer for all the people who have to work on the 2nd.
Fellas, as soon as OSU got hosed, and LSU plays Alabama for the "Depends/Doritos/Tampex/Summer's Eve" Bull**** College System nonsensical title, my interest in this crap cratered. I'll probably watch the smaller bowl games, but with no I could care less who plays in what games, it is like watching minor league baseball playoffs, mildly interesting, but there are better things to do.
Ok St/Stanford is a matchup Im looking foward to. IMO the 2 best players in CFB are plaing in this game.
One WTF matchup is WV vs Clemson in the Orange Bowl. WV doesn't deserve a BCS game (not sure Clemson does either), especially with #6 Arkansas sitting out there (and Boise St, K-State, South Carolina, and Baylor).
How did OSU get hosed? They lost too Iowa State, a loss that should have (and any other year would have) dropped them further than a couple spots. When you lose a game like that you should most definitely be disqualified in the current system.
They won their conference and destroyed a top 10 team last week. And we've already seen Bama/LSU IN Bama. And LSU won. This might sound crazy, but I want to see a split if Bama wins.
Hopefully there will be enough rancor or apathy or whatever is needed to finally convince the idiots in charge to not renew the BCS.
Double OT, and the gm was on the day several in the OSU athletic dept died in a plane crash. OSU beat 6 or 7 ranked opponents, alabama beat 3. Alabama, lost, at home, and did not win a conference title, did not even play in a conference title game, they were also rans in their own conference and were rewarded with a title game? What sort of garbage is this? What room temp IQ would bother with it when the WWE is on, and it is more honest?
Clemson-Arkansas or Clemson-Boise St would've been a much better match up, especially for the Orange Bowl itself IMO.
Well because some of you will watch Oklahoma's bowl game purely for Landry Jones... Marvin McNutt is someone you should keep your eye on from Iowa. That guy is big, athletic, and just overall a playmaker. The game will be a good one... you give Norm Parker a month to get ready for Jones, he will make life tough for him.
OSU won the toughest conference from top to bottom outright. They had more Than 2x the wins against top 25 teams than Bama. How the hell can anyone argue that Quality Losses > Quality wins? It's just silly. The body of work that OKSU out up this year was unparalleled. If the media wasn't do busy getting their right hand in on the SEC jerkfest maybe they'd see the sum for what it is. Instead we get to see a conference winner play a re-match against a team that didn't even win their DIVISION. It's crap, it's Catering to the SEC. The SEC has some of the best teams in football, and I'll argue THE best team in football (LSU), but the Big 12 is a stronger conference top to bottom. OKSU got tripped up by a damn good ISU team. Yet Bama's quality loss trumps all their quality wins. Pathetic.
To me it hurts the argument, "With the BCS the entire season is like the playoffs." No it isn't, with the BCS Alabama is now the only team with a second chance. If Alabama wins then the Championship should be split between LSU and Alabama.
All you have to look at is the ACC, which got two teams in (Clemson, Virginia Tech) as opposed to the best conference this year, the Big 12, which got one (Oklahoma State). I get that Oklahoma State can't complain too much because they lost to Iowa State, but c'mon man. Clemson gets an automatic for winning the slightly average ACC ... but Va Tech? Really? Va Tech? I'm a homer, but Colin Klein is the best QB, maybe the best player, that no one has heard of, and Kansas State, save a bad second half against Oklahoma, has been in every single game that they play. I'm excited about playing Arkansas, that's going to be a really good game, but their reward for a bad loss to Oklahoma and a last-second loss to Oklahoma State is a Cotton Bowl berth. No offense, but big whoop. I read an article that said the reason the Sugar Bowl went with Virginia Tech was because Frank Beamer has been such a great coach all these years. I would like to point out that Bill Snyder is at the same level as Beamer (and this is his second season back). Also, since when did previous years mean you get rewarded? This BCS is a complete joke. I'll watch the K-State game and the rest I couldn't care less about.
VT should be nowhere near a BCS bowl. Weakest schedule in the country and got *****slapped twice against the same team. KState deserves a bid.
I agree in theory, but to be fair to VT, if the Big 12 had a championship game, what would KState's chances be of beating OkState and finishing 11-2? If there were no ACC Championship, VT would still be 11-1 and the 5th ranked team in the country.
If LSU wins (which I believe they will), they have to be top 3 among BCS title winners, no? Their schedule is ridiculous, more so due to their 2 OOC games against Oregon and West Virginia (neither at home). '01 Canes, '04 Trojans*, and '05 Texas are the main competition. And if you want to get technical, that USC title doesn't really exist....
They had three shots in the red zone to send that game into OT and just couldn't get it done. If their defense was a little better this squad would probably have beaten OSU and shown up better against Oklahoma.
Nope, Alabama will be clowned "national champions!" ESPN will then use their broadcast networks as a platform for "a playoff system that makes sense" and thusly benefit even further from this dumpster fire. Personally, I liked just the coaches poll, and the writers poll, it removes all of this nonsense and treated the sport for what is was, competition among amateur college students not minor league football. Alabama has no business in this game.
OKSU, K-State, and Arkansas all got the shaft. OKSU we've covered, but I also feel really bad for K-State. 2 Losses in this years B-12 is nothing short of amazing with the level of talent they recruit. One of the hardest schedules in the Nation, and they get passed up for Michigan, and VT. It's laughable. The BCS needs to start holding their "bowls" accountable. When the #6, 7, and 8 teams aren't getting invites, but VT and Michigan with their (relative) cake schedules are there's something wrong. I also take offense to the thought that Iowa State is that "bad" of a loss for OKSU, or that "bad" of a win for KSU. Iowa State had a tough as hell schedule, including their self-inflicted pre-conference schedule, and they still got a bowl bid. Played everybody hard this year, tripped up OKSU, blew up Tech, Went blow for blow with KSU, beat Iowa, etc. They're not NC contenders, but their not a **** team either. I'd put money on them against ANYONE in the Big East, ACC, most of the Big 10, etc.
These kinds of comments make $.00 to me. What are the odds the KSU has 2 losses had they not played a round robin schedule in the deepest conf. in the country? KSU is a 2 loss team having played EVERY team in the Big 12. That's Texas Oklahoma Oklahoma State Missouri Texas A&M Iowa State Baylor Texas Tech Kansas Of the top 10 toughest schedules in the country, 1-10 belong to Big 12 teams (that's the entire Big 12 btw) K-State deserved a shot at a BCS bowl. Holding up any other conference schedule as an example is a losing game.
I know they can play, but Oklahoma State isn't a cake walk. You can't walk away from a championship game with 2 winners. lol.
You're completely right. An 11-1 Va Tech team would be inferior to a 10-2 K State team, especially since VT isn't a top notch program or anything.... and it's not like they've won 10+ games each of the past 8 years. <sarcasm> K State might very well be worthy of a BCS game, but to pop off with your asinine comment relegating VT into some powder puff program is quite ridiculous. It doesn't matter who K State played; if they were in a Big 12 Championship and hypothetically finished 10-3, they'd still have three losses, and 3 losses gets you nothing w/o a conference championship win attached to it. Not.sure.if.serious. "Top 10 toughest schedules in the country"? According to whom? You? Who did the Big 12 dominate out of conference to earn this lofty praise you're bestowing upon them to validate they're more than just a bunch of ok teams beating up on each other? No offense to KState but they were an instant replay away from losing to 6-6 Miami, and Clemson beat up an FSU team that played Oklahoma tight. You won't know how tough the Big 12(Tiny 10) actually is until after the bowl games. If we're being completely fair, a 10-2 Georgia, winner of the SEC East (7-1 SEC record) would've been equally if not more worthy of a BCS game than KState, but no, Georgia had to play in a conference championship game, against the #1 team in the country to boot.
BCS is just complete and utter gibberish , watched a ton of games this year for the first time ever and apart from the title game the rest make little sense. Far too many good teams not playing in "important" bowl games. Needs to have some sort of playoff system but how they do that with all the conferences I have no idea.
If Alabama wins they are the champions and should be without dispute as far as LSU goes. Yes LSU won the regular season game but this is a CHAMPIONSHIP game. Pats beat Giants week 17 then lost the SB. It's a championship game the winner is the champion.
We can complain about the BCS all we want, of course we need a playoff, but they got it right. Alabama is the 2nd best team in the nation.
I'd like to see how Bama's defense handles a Luck led Stanford offense. That could be a match up that creates more trouble than they're accustomed to.
I don't see it. Alabama's just too big and physical to be pushed around by Stanford's heavy set. And Stanford doesn't have the speed to make Alabama pay for loading up to stop the run. Stanford might make a play or two on a great misdirection play here or there, but in the end Stanford is just outmatched.
