HOLY SHIITAKE

All of the scenarios would be moot if the NCAA would do something quite simple. There are 120 teams in D1 football. I argue that there should only be 80, but that's okay. Let's create 12 conferences, based on geography, each with 10 teams. Shorten the regular season back to 11 games (get rid of the cup cake games). There will be 9 conference games and two out of conference games. This determines a clear conference champion. All regular season games are thus relevant (it's a "playoff" during the regular season). Each team winds up playing every team in it's conference; there is no such thing as an "easy schedule".

At the end of the year, conference champions playoff. Everyone else goes to bowls to see some sweet match-ups that the playoffs would miss. No. 2 in one conference always plays number 2 in another - keeps the bowl system alive, and actually THRIVING. It shuts up all of the controversy, and any team that wins out is the TRUEST of the TRUE National Champions.

Best of all for the rich boys, it would make them much RICHER.

UGAChemDawg wrote:

dapolla wrote: kentdaddy, even though OSU has only beaten OU 17 times in history, I don't think the Sooners can punk the Pokes yet again this year. OSU is playing for the national title; just don't know against whom yet.

Oregon.

I thought of something really lame though. Imagine if the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State winner somehow loses the Big 12 championship game and we beat LSU for the SEC title.

In that situation, Alabama would probably play in the NC game without even winning their own division. They would essentially be rewarded for NOT making it to the SEC championship game.

Now that all the major leagues have conference championship games, that should be a formal, codefied rule: the two teams that participate in the BCS National Championship game must have won their respective conference championship games.

"Unofficially", that's why we got jumped in the BCS by LSU and didn't play for the NC in '07. They didn't want us playing in the NC game because we didn't win the conference (hate to say it but that's the way it should be).

thriller wrote: All of the scenarios would be moot if the NCAA would do something quite simple. There are 120 teams in D1 football. I argue that there should only be 80, but that's okay. Let's create 12 conferences, based on geography, each with 10 teams. Shorten the regular season back to 11 games (get rid of the cup cake games). There will be 9 conference games and two out of conference games. This determines a clear conference champion. All regular season games are thus relevant (it's a "playoff" during the regular season). Each team winds up playing every team in it's conference; there is no such thing as an "easy schedule".

At the end of the year, conference champions playoff. Everyone else goes to bowls to see some sweet match-ups that the playoffs would miss. No. 2 in one conference always plays number 2 in another - keeps the bowl system alive, and actually THRIVING. It shuts up all of the controversy, and any team that wins out is the TRUEST of the TRUE National Champions.

Best of all for the rich boys, it would make them much RICHER.

Totally agree with setting up conference champions playing off but it will eventually be 16 team mega-conferences with a possibility of a couple of "invitees" playing off. They aren't going to go backwards to 10 team conferences.....obviously have started going larger with 12 already.

wlayton wrote: Totally agree with setting up conference champions playing off but it will eventually be 16 team mega-conferences with a possibility of a couple of "invitees" playing off. They aren't going to go backwards to 10 team conferences.....obviously have started going larger with 12 already.

I like thriller's idea, but wlayton is right that the conferences won't shrink. Do love the idea of getting the cream puffs off the schedule.

UGAChemDawg wrote:

dapolla wrote: kentdaddy, even though OSU has only beaten OU 17 times in history, I don't think the Sooners can punk the Pokes yet again this year. OSU is playing for the national title; just don't know against whom yet.

Oregon.

I thought of something really lame though. Imagine if the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State winner somehow loses the Big 12 championship game and we beat LSU for the SEC title.

In that situation, Alabama would probably play in the NC game without even winning their own division. They would essentially be rewarded for NOT making it to the SEC championship game.

Now that all the major leagues have conference championship games, that should be a formal, codefied rule: the two teams that participate in the BCS National Championship game must have won their respective conference championship games.

There is no Big 12 Championship game.......Okie State wins they play for the NC.....LSU wins out it plays Okie State......

I said in post #16 that Alabama had a shot if LSU loses in the SEC title game.......

LSU still has to beat Arkansas

UGAChemDawg wrote:

dapolla wrote: kentdaddy, even though OSU has only beaten OU 17 times in history, I don't think the Sooners can punk the Pokes yet again this year. OSU is playing for the national title; just don't know against whom yet.

Oregon.

I thought of something really lame though. Imagine if the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State winner somehow loses the Big 12 championship game and we beat LSU for the SEC title.

In that situation, Alabama would probably play in the NC game without even winning their own division. They would essentially be rewarded for NOT making it to the SEC championship game.

Now that all the major leagues have conference championship games, that should be a formal, codefied rule: the two teams that participate in the BCS National Championship game must have won their respective conference championship games.

Can't remember the year, seems like it was '95, but I remember Nebraska playing for NC without winning the Big 12 conference. Seems like that was what happened.