BCS Championship

#101
#101
volfanbill said:
go ahead and laugh at me then... the best SEC will limp into a playoff system and get beat up. Look at basketball. how many times does one of the best two/three teams actually win? rarely. this year is a perfect example. no way was florida the actual best team. The BCS, while flawed, still makes every game a playoff and constant excitement throughout the year.
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how exciting is it to play a bowl game that means absolutely nothing?

a playoff would be much more exciting.
 
#102
#102
I don't think a playoff adds anything other than something else for people to complain about.
 
#104
#104
allvol123 said:
Yea, I am constantly complaining about how that stupid NCAA basketball tournamnet unfolds every year.
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You would be complaining about the playoff selection process, because taking 8 teams would always end up screwing a few other teams. Guess who gets frequently screwed in situations like that? SEC teams.
 
#105
#105
oklavol said:
how exciting is it to play a bowl game that means absolutely nothing?

a playoff would be much more exciting.
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GAVol said:
I don't think a playoff adds anything other than something else for people to complain about.
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gavol answered it almost perfectly. I'm saying neither are perfect. I get excited to see Tennessee play any game, even if it's the weed eater bowl. I'm saying neither are perfect, but that the BCS adds an excitement level from week 1 all the way across the board. a playoff system would be all about matchups and possible upsets giving a "good" team the title, while the three favorites were upset in earlier rounds because a running attack played a great run D team who then got picked apart by a team like ND.
 
#106
#106
oklavol said:
how exciting is it to play a bowl game that means absolutely nothing?

a playoff would be much more exciting.
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Go to the airport and let the UT players know as they are boarding the plane that their bowl game means nothing. I'm sure they will agree with you.
 
#107
#107
allvol123 said:
Yea, I am constantly complaining about how that stupid NCAA basketball tournamnet unfolds every year.
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the problem is.. while it's exciting for a month, but how often does the actual best team win? do you really think florida was the best basketball team last year?
 
#108
#108
kptvol said:
You would be complaining about the playoff selection process, because taking 8 teams would always end up screwing a few other teams. Guess who gets frequently screwed in situations like that? SEC teams.
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Less teams get screwed if there are 8 chosen as opposed to 2 being chosen. There would be one SEC team in that scenario every year.
 
#109
#109
volfanbill said:
the problem is.. while it's exciting for a month, but how often does the actual best team win? do you really think florida was the best basketball team last year?
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Why would I think that? After they won the SEC tournamanet and then won 6 straight in the NCAA tournament.
 
#110
#110
allvol123 said:
Less teams get screwed if there are 8 chosen as opposed to 2 being chosen. There would be one SEC team in that scenario every year.
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I don't know if less teams would get screwed. Look how many potential 1-loss and 2-loss teams there are this year. Who gets to decide which of them should make it in? I guess Rutgers (had they not lost to Cincy), West Virginia, and Louisville could all have potentially gotten in the playoffs with 1 loss. How fair would that be?
 
#112
#112
kptvol said:
Go to the airport and let the UT players know as they are boarding the plane that their bowl game means nothing. I'm sure they will agree with you.
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stop kidding yourself. they are not playing for anything other then pride.
 
#113
#113
kptvol said:
Go to the airport and let the UT players know as they are boarding the plane that their bowl game means nothing. I'm sure they will agree with you.
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The way they played in the two Peach Bowl appearances, I think they actually would agree.
 
#114
#114
volfanbill said:
so they got hot for one month.. they were far from the best team.
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and i suppose in your mind only the "best" team has won the BCS championship game? It wasn't the team that might have got lucky and got the most turnovers, it was the "best" team.

while Florida just got lucky for a month? give me a break.
 
#116
#116
oklavol said:
stop kidding yourself. they are not playing for anything other then pride.
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It's a reward for a great season. If a non-championship bowl means nothing, then teams like Tulane have absolutely no reason to even try for a winning season.
 
#118
#118
kptvol said:
I don't know if less teams would get screwed. Look how many potential 1-loss and 2-loss teams there are this year. Who gets to decide which of them should make it in? I guess Rutgers (had they not lost to Cincy), West Virginia, and Louisville could all have potentially gotten in the playoffs with 1 loss. How fair would that be?
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Do you even see what you are writing? If 8 teams are in as opposed to 2, mathematically speaking, less teams are screwed. For every one more team you include in, one less team is left out, thus one less team screwed.
 
#119
#119
kptvol said:
It's a reward for a great season. If a non-championship bowl means nothing, then teams like Tulane have absolutely no reason to even try for a winning season.
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I hope you really dont expect anyone in here to believe that going to a bowl game is as exciting as going into a playoff where you have an opportunity to possibly play for a national championship?
 
#120
#120
oklavol said:
I hope you really dont expect anyone in here to believe that going to a bowl game is as exciting as going into a playoff where you have an opportunity to possibly play for a national championship?
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Oh come on, who doesn't get excited about raising the Music City Bowl Trophy.
 
#122
#122
oklavol said:
and i suppose in your mind only the "best" team has won the BCS championship game? It wasn't the team that might have got lucky and got the most turnovers, it was the "best" team.

while Florida just got lucky for a month? give me a break.
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the sad thing is while the BCS may rarely get the lesser opponent right, it's gotten the right champion more times than people give it credit for. you put last year's Duke team on the floor against LSU or Florida 7 times a piece and Duke wins that series. my stance is that neither format gets it right, just that the BCS makes football more exciting this way
 
#123
#123
That 7 win team that holds the Music City Bowl trophy is usually just happy as can be that they are even playing that day.
 
#124
#124
oklavol said:
I hope you really dont expect anyone in here to believe that going to a bowl game is as exciting as going into a playoff where you have an opportunity to possibly play for a national championship?
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I hope you don't really think that is what I said. I simply refuted your claim that there are bowls that do not decide the national championship that still mean something.
 
#125
#125
allvol123 said:
Oh come on, who doesn't get excited about raising the Music City Bowl Trophy.
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UT shouldn't, which is exactly why I have been critical of our season this year. However, UK would be elated to win that bowl. Those guys have put together a good season and they deserve a shot to get a little hardware for their trophy case regardless of how prestigious it may or may not be.
 
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