Conference championship games: Good or bad?

[lawgator1]

The SEC game this year is not part of this discussion as we had two teams that were undefeated and the game was key to sending one the national championship game.

But you look at the Big East, and Big 12 games and there is a real debate to be had on this.

On the one hand, those games were really exciting with the Big East game decided in the last minute, the Big 12 game in the last second. Very intriguing stuff.

On the other hand, seems like in a lot of cases they represent opportunities for highly ranked teams to blow it, choke it away, and cause some major headaches in deciding the bowl games.

If Texas loses, you have to choose between Cinci and TCU. Or BSU. To quote Ferris Bueller quoting Wayne Newton, "what a mess."

 

[volfromfla56]

I think their great, kept you guys from getting that elusive undefeated season yet again! Quit whining, you lost!

 

[Cartervol]

I think every conference should have to play one. They're a good thing and produce a clear champion. What's bad about that?

 

[lawgator1]

I think their great, kept you guys from getting that elusive undefeated season yet again! Quit whining, you lost!

I already said we needed one in the SEC this year. But you raise an interesting point. What happenes if there wasn't one? Would it be two undefeated teams from the same conference playing for it all?

 

[MystifyingVol]

I think every conference should have one, else they aren't eligible for a BCS berth.

 

[JTrainDavis]

The Big East doesnt have a championship game, the schedule just worked out that way.

 

[volfromfla56]

I already said we needed one in the SEC this year. But you raise an interesting point. What happenes if there wasn't one? Would it be two undefeated teams from the same conference playing for it all?

What "happenes" ( did you mean happiness?) is you get as fair of National Championship as possible without a playoff system. So Texas, who went undefeated in a good conference doesn't get a shot at a title?

 

[kptvol]

I already said we needed one in the SEC this year. But you raise an interesting point. What happenes if there wasn't one? Would it be two undefeated teams from the same conference playing for it all?

In 2002, Iowa and Ohio State went undefeated. Fortunately, Iowa lost an OOC game. Otherwise, there would have been a conundrum. The Big 10 should be forced to add another team and go to a divisional format with a championship game or do the round robin thing.

 

[BeecherVol]

Having conf. CGs is the closests thing to a playoff your gonna see. It makes a mess with the bowls because of the BCS bowls and tie ins. It boils down to money. And if that is the case they should do away with the tie ins altogether, and tell everybody that.

 

[tvolsfan]

All have them or none of them should have one. That being said, I hate seeing 4 loss teams squeak their way into BCS bowls because of them.

 

[volinbham]

Florida was exposed yesterday. The CG was essential to ensure that happens.

 

[droski]

florida was exposed

 

[TrueOrange]

I liked it all. Was good to have the Big East and Pac 10 playing for conf championship the last game of the season

 

[torchb]

I'm OK with the Pac-10 not having a championship game because they play a round robin schedule. That's not practical with more than 10 teams in a conference, so you need a championship game to make sure a champion played the best competition in the conference.

 

[milohimself]

I like smaller conferences in which everybody plays everybody else better.

 

[tvolsfan]

I like smaller conferences in which everybody plays everybody else better.

I'd have to agree.

 

[touchdown-tony]

I do not like the championship games - at least how they are done in divisional play.

Take the Big 12 this year. Texas is 8-0 and Nebraska is 6-2 yet if Nebraska beats them they win the conference with a worse conference record? And there are more egregious examples than that.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

If you are worthy to play in the BCSCG you should not choke on a conf champ game.

 

[tvolsfan]

If you are worthy to play in the BCSCG you should not choke on a conf champ game.

Still not really fair when some teams aren't given the opportunity to choke.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Still not really fair when some teams aren't given the opportunity to choke.

I agree, exsept for the RR confs.

 

[CornPoke]

I personally like having 9 teams in the MWC. Makes for a perfect home-away schedule every year and everyone plays each other. Most of you probably don't know that the MWC broke of from the WAC because of oversaturation of teams within the conference. The WAC at one time had 16 freakin teams! Talk about a scheduling nightmare.

So the original 8 WAC teams broke off to form the MWC and later added TCU. Looks like a good bet Boise will be in the MWC next year but I say if that happens go ahead and expand to 12.

Add: Boise, Fresno/Nevada, and Houston/SMU

 

[milohimself]

^ Odd. I hadn't heard anything about that, but I did some searching and found it's a distinct possibility. I don't know of any other teams interested, though.

With Boise joining the conference, the MWC's 2nd attempt at joining the BCS may be successful.