A few more BCS seasons like this...

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Lexvol

Lexvol

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I wonder what the TV ratings are with the BCS games this year? I'll admit that I haven't watched one start to finish, and I'm betting I'm not alone. A few more seasons of match ups like these and I guarantee the networks will find a way to make a plus one happen.
 
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Agree - I probably watched more of the FL and Cincy game than any other but primarily for the beat down value, not very intriguing matchups in many of these games on a national level.
 
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This system isn't just and the board for a championship is already set, so it might as well be exhibition games.
 
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come to think of it, the only bcs game ive actually watched is the florida game. wow
 
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All of it seemed watered down this year, no real great teams, no real great matchups. The world is ready for some type of playoff, plus one, anything, just get it done.
 
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Cartervol said:
All of it seemed watered down this year, no real great teams, no real great matchups. The world is ready for some type of playoff, plus one, anything, just get it done.
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That is why I'm holding out hope that Texas can beat Bama tonight. Just wondering how they intend to score. Hook'em Horns!
 
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Lexvol said:
That is why I'm holding out hope that Texas can beat Bama tonight. Just wondering how they intend to score. Hook'em Horns!
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That's the whole ballgame, whether Texas can move the ball or not. Yeah, overall the bowl season was disappointing. Maybe tonight will be a great game.
 
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Droski I haven't kept up with it but how many wins and losses did the pac 10 have in bowl games this year? I expected them to fare better than they did. At one point I thought with USC being down the other teams had actually taken a step forward, with the exception of Oregon I'm not so sure any more.
 
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lylsmorr said:
The only game I cared to watch was TCU-Boise
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It was a pretty good game but I thought it a joke they ended up playing each other. Hard for me to tell if Boise was that outstanding or if TCU played a poor game or was a little overrated.
 
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The SEC was down this year. The Big 12 was down this year. ND still stank. The Big 10, ACC, and BE aren't really improving very much overall. The Pac10 was finally a little more exciting but not really all that relevant to the rest of the country.

It was really just a lackluster year for football over all.

Here's my idea though for a way of "sort of" having a playoff without changing things too dramatically.

Require all the BCS conferences to have 12 teams and a CG and maybe add another conference. There are several mid-majors capable of moving up. Some combination of Utah, Boise, BYU, or Fresno could round out the Pac 10 or the best from the MWC and WAC could combine to form a conference. ND is a natural addition to the Big 10 or else they go to the BE while a MAC team is added to the Big 10. The Big East could really choose the best from the Sunbelt, CUSA, and MAC.

You'd have 72 teams that through a legitimate process would yield 6 champions plus two at large teams. The NCAA could create a football division composed just of those teams and let the rest revert to the FCS. After your 4 match ups are created, you wait until AFTER those 4 games to poll for the NC game.... or else you just play an extra round and have a true champ.
 
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the pac-10 has been garbage. 2-5. with the only wins being over BC and temple.
 
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droski said:
the pac-10 has been garbage. 2-5. with the only wins being over BC and temple.
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I knew it wasn't all that good but 2-5 is surprising. Certainly a down year for the conference. I see there being a little more parity over the next few years though.
 
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droski said:
texas has a pretty good d and bama's qb has been known to suck at times.
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I could be wrong because the Big 12 really wasn't as good this year... but I really think Texas will win. I've predicted it for a long time, even before the SEC CG.

Texas will have more talent than any team Bama has seen this year. They'll have by far the best O Bama has seen.

I simply think their D matches up better against Bama's O than Bama's D does against Texas' O. I don't think Bama can play man to man ever against Shipley but he isn't their only threat. Texas has 5 guys with 30 or more receptions on the year.

The one thing that favors Bama heavily in that match up is that Texas hasn't run the ball well at all.
 
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KB5252 said:
I knew it wasn't all that good but 2-5 is surprising. Certainly a down year for the conference. I see there being a little more parity over the next few years though.
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it felt like an up year for the conference where last year the pac-10 was undefeated in bowls and it felt like a major down year. beats me. i know stanford wins if luck is healthy, but the other 3 of the other 4 losses were arse kickings.
 
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sjt18 said:
I could be wrong because the Big 12 really wasn't as good this year... but I really think Texas will win. I've predicted it for a long time, even before the SEC CG.

Texas will have more talent than any team Bama has seen this year. They'll have by far the best O Bama has seen.

I simply think their D matches up better against Bama's O than Bama's D does against Texas' O. I don't think Bama can play man to man ever against Shipley but he isn't their only threat. Texas has 5 guys with 30 or more receptions on the year.

The one thing that favors Bama heavily in that match up is that Texas hasn't run the ball well at all.
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i don't think it's impossible. if texas looked better during hte year i'd be on the bandwagon with you. they certainly have equivalant or better talent if you go by the recruiting classes.
 
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Lexvol said:
I wonder what the TV ratings are with the BCS games this year? I'll admit that I haven't watched one start to finish, and I'm betting I'm not alone. A few more seasons of match ups like these and I guarantee the networks will find a way to make a plus one happen.
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After saying I would watch, and intending to do just that, the only BCS game I've really given a good effort towards was Florida and Cincy, which I watched until it got out of hand. As long as the system tries to pass off Ga Tech and Iowa as a premier matchup, interest will wane. Even the Rose Bowl pitted an OSU team that wasn't good enough to do better against the best the Pac-10 could offer when USC sucks.

That being said, I don't think +1 is the answer. As I've said before, if I were emperor of college football, I would scrap the BCS and go back to the days when the league champion hosted the big bowl games, with the single exception that #2 is forced to go to #1.

The championship game isn't the problem; the ratings for it, and the interest in it, will still be good. The problem is that the system designed to pit 1 v. 2 has expanded to the top 10, and in doing so, it has turned the other bowls into exhibition games among teams that weren't quite good enough for the big one. We now have 4 games designed to give good arguments that one of their participants is #3. That's not very interesting.
 
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Lexvol said:
I wonder what the TV ratings are with the BCS games this year? I'll admit that I haven't watched one start to finish, and I'm betting I'm not alone. A few more seasons of match ups like these and I guarantee the networks will find a way to make a plus one happen.
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I haven't made it through a full one either
So I hope Texas gets up big tonight, early
 
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droski said:
it felt like an up year for the conference where last year the pac-10 was undefeated in bowls and it felt like a major down year. beats me. i know stanford wins if luck is healthy, but the other 3 of the other 4 losses were arse kickings.
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UCLA could also have been defeated by Temple. I think it's pretty safe to say the results from the Pac-10 this year are more a result of USC being down than anything. Any other year they would have won the conference with one loss, probably.

That said, I also think Oregon, Arizona and Stanford (without Luck who may have NFL-level talent) got very poor matchups.

Not to sound like a Monday morning quarterback, but the conference did about as I expected. I figured anything above .500 to be a success.

As for the OP, the revenue created by an extra game is the only reason it would be conceivable for the BCS to add a plus one.
 
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