Thinking about a solution to the BCS problem, I came up with a 16-team playoff system, using conference champions as the top 11 slots, with wild card teams filling out the field of 16.
But some don’t like that. Some complain that teams like Troy or Buffalo shouldn’t make the mix while better teams like Oklahoma State, Georgia Tech, Brigham Young, or Ball State are left out.
So, if its the best teams that should fill the field of 16, then there’s an easy solution:
- Florida
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Mississippi
- Louisiana State
- South Carolina
- Vanderbilt
- Kentucky
- Arkansas
- Tennessee
- Auburn
- Mississippi State
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Southern California
- Utah
Problem solved.
Oregon State beat Southern California. Penn State destroyed Oregon State. Therefore, Penn State is better than Southern California and deserves their playoff spot. 😉
I suppose I shall have to wait for the Rose Bowl to be vindicated.
[Penn State. Oregon State. Boise State. What’s the difference? – B]
Texas beat Oklahoma too, therefore they should be a higher rank than them.
[Excellent point.
Oh, wait. On Nov. 1, Texas Tech beat Texas, 39-33. So Texas Tech gets the Texas slot.
Unless Texas Tech lost to somebody. Let me check.
Yep, they lost a game. On Nov. 22, they lost to Oklahoma, 65-21. So now Oklahoma gets the slot.
Unless they lost to somebody. Check on that for me, would you? – B]
You left out Boise State, so your stupid list is stupid and moot. And stupid.
[Boise State has a football team? Who knew? – B]
This is why women shop on Sundays….so we don’t have to listen to this silly debate over football and who would beat who. (OK I know I’m going to get beat up over my comment, but please be gentle!)
Now for something more interesting: My kid’s soccer team made it to regionals, so there, splllttttt!
[Sundays? That’s pro football. Not nearly as important as college football.
Oh, congrats on making the playoffs. If only the NCAA Division 1-A had playoffs… – B]
Penn State!
Roll those pant legs UP in JoePA’s house!
Boise State? I’ll bet you watch soccer, too.
[My niece plays soccer. – B]
Iowa destroyed Penn State so your ratings suck!
[That’s why I left them both off. If they try real hard, next year, we’ll let them play Vanderbilt. – B]
Hey, Basil, shouldn’t be Georgia Tech be on your list instead of Georgia?
[They blew their chance in 1964 when they pulled out of the SEC. – B]
The remaining spots should go to the teams that kick the hippie the farthest. It’s only fair.
[Yes, that definitely would be a process improvement. – B]
And what I like about THIS scenario is Ohio State is not in it. GO BLUE!
[Ah, a Kentucky fan, I see. – B]
#9, TFM,
When you’re coming off a 3-9 season which included a loss to Toledo and a 5 touchdown loss to your hated rival, you might not want to trash talk about said rival and say “GO BLUE!” Just a word of advice.
[In all seriousness, I am a little disappointed that the Big Ten isn’t represented. Yes, the SEC walks on water, but the Big Ten floats pretty well. – B]
Basil,
I must’ve missed the post where you disclosed that you are the SEC commisioner.
[The SEC couldn’t afford me. Just let them try. – B]
Does no one else realize that he is mostly only including the important conference??? XD
[Well, in all honesty, there are 11 conferences. The SEC, and the other 10. – B]
You should try to think about something other than football.
Woooooooooo
Pig
Souieeeee!!!!!!!!!!!
[Football Jeopardy! The answer is, “How to you greet an Arkansas cheerleader?” – B]
I still assert that a blog post on the Thorium/U-233 fuel cycle would be less complicated and more interesting.
[That was last week’s post. Pay attention. – B]
Unfortunately, this ‘only the best teams’ requirement is patently unfair to my Orange, who clearly one of the worst teams, unle. And clearly teams that can only win ten games in four years (bye-bye Greg Robinson) deserve to be represented, too. So let’s just have a 128-team playoff (well, 120; the top 8 seeds get a first-round bye).
[We could have 4 or 5 “warm-up” games to have homecoming and traditional rivalries. Then start the playoff season. The really sucky teams would play 6 games (losing in the first round), then get ready for basketball season. The SEC and the best of the rest would then battle it out, with the final game in December in the Georgia Dome. – B]
I’m sure his dissin Penn State was merely a slip of the fingers and would have been caught by the editor. USS JC, Iowa destroyed Penn State??? I guess if you’re from Iowa a one point win is something to be proud of.
[Iowa has a football team, too? What’s the fight song? “I tell ya, there’s trouble, right here in River City, with a capital “t” and that rhymes with “p” and that stands for “pool”…? – B]
What’s wrong with an eleven-team playoff? If you’re not the best in your conference, how can you possibly be the best in the nation?
[One word: Buffalo. – B]
SEC is best.
[Okay, you’ve convinced me. I’ll take up the SEC’s cause, now. – B]
HEY I go to Buffalo watch your mouth!
But seriously, you are right, UB shouldn’t be where it is, it’ll get knocked off easily enough – but we did beat Ball which is a decent team, so we are decent right?
[Oh, yeah. Decent. Unlike the Fox Sports camera angles. – B]
[The SEC and the best of the rest would then battle it out, with the final game in December in the Georgia Dome. – B]
Pfft. Are your SEC boys afraid to play in an unforgiving Northern winter?
Won’t work. Too many games. Just do a simple top 4 playoff. 1 vs 3, 2 vs 4, winner for champ. Losers of first two could even playoff for third place. Hell, if your not in the top 4… Let those playoffs be Bowl games.
I don’t think the SEC would be scared to play anybody anytime anyplace. (I hope that helps clear that up for you)
I don’t think the SEC would be scared to play anybody anytime anyplace. (I hope that helps clear that up for you)
Have you looked like at their OOC schedules? Auburn traveling to West Virginia is about as far north as they travel. The best away OOC game was probably Georgia at Arizona State, who finished 5-7.
[The Good Lord loved us enough to put us in the South. Why would we go anywhere else? – B.]
Basil,
There is only two teams left undefeated. Only one of them makes your cut (In last place.) You also leave out (As Mrs. Fleming has noted) The team that gave us argueably the greatest BCS game of all time (Tostitos Bowl 2007). This shows a gaping flaw in your system.
A better method would be having the teams cheerleaders mud wrestle for rank in the BCS bowls. Sounds stupid at first but at least there would be a reason that Ohio State (Oh… I forgot. The University of the state of Ohio not to offend all their Illumni) is in a the Tostitos Bowl. Sorry but what did they do to deserve this.
And here I thought that Basil was reasonable. As he has disclosed himself as a closet UGA fan, I don’t know what to think now…
[Closet UGA fan? Hell, my daughter attends the University of Georgia. I came out of the closet years ago. – B]
[Um, I’m not quite sure that came out like I intended. Oh, well. – B]