Goodbye BCS

[volfan1231]

What are your thoughts on the end of the BCS? Are you glad the BCS is over with?

Anybody else on here feel like the playoff committee will be a joke?

 

[Trakentombstone]

The BCS wasnt as bad as everyone made it out to be, but yes i am ready for a new way of determining the best team.


The playoff will take 3-4 years prolly to get it right. Itll be a joke for a few years til they work the kinks out.

I want them to make it at least 8-12 teams though later on when its running smooth then itll be awesome!

 

[GAVol]

The BCS did exactly what it was supposed to do. People are going to whine no matter what system is in place.

 

[volfan1231]

The BCS wasnt as bad as everyone made it out to be, but yes i am ready for a new way of determining the best team.


The playoff will take 3-4 years prolly to get it right. Itll be a joke for a few years til they work the kinks out.

I want them to make it at least 8-12 teams though later on when its running smooth then itll be awesome!

I think a lot of it's success will depend on the playoff committee as well. If they got a bunch biased people on there that could spell disaster but I agree I think it'll take a couple years to really get running smooth.

 

[Flipdaddy]

Everybody will like it until Tennessee gets knocked out of a chance to play for a national championship that would've originally put them in the BCS way. Who am I kidding. Tennessee won't sniff a NC for at least 8 years. How ironic...we won the first BCS against FSU and they won the last one.

 

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[VOLywood]

As we close out the BCS era of college football, it's interesting to look at the conference records:

SEC: 9-2 (1 of the losses was to another SEC school, LSU vs. Alabama 2011, 5 different SEC schools won a championship - Tennessee, LSU, Bama, Florida, Auburn)
Big 12: 2-5 (Oklahoma and Texas won championships)
ACC: 2-2 (All 4 appearances were by FSU)
Big East: 1-2 (Miami and VT are now in the ACC)
Big Ten: 1-2 (All 3 appearances were by Ohio St)
Pac 12: 1-2 (USC won a championship, which was later vacated due to violations)
Independent: 0-1 (Notre Dame)

When it comes to winning it all, you just can't compare any conference to the SEC, and it was 5 different teams, not just 1 or 2. Interesting to note that the current make-up of the ACC would be the 2nd best BCS league, with Big 12 a close 3rd. Big Ten and Pac-12 are at the bottom by a significant margin.

 

[ncvol17]

I heard a guy on Sirius radio sports blame harsh PENN STATE sanctions on the head of the committee having once been SEC. Imagine the 'talk' concerning committee members for championship.

 

[Volunteer_Kirby]

The BCS was a fine enough system, but I think after the first 8 years it became pretty evident that a playoff system was going to come into fruition.

While a 4 team playoff is new and interesting, I really think they dropped the ball by not making it a 6 team playoff system. With a 6 team playoff your #1 and #2 seed get the bye in the first playoff week, then play the winners of the previous weeks match (seed 3-6) and the winner of that game plays for the championship. The seeds would be the conference champions from the big 5 conferences, then 1 for a mid-major or another deserving team (like say, a one loss SEC team). Would make a lot more sense IMO.

 

[BigBadVol]

As we close out the BCS era of college football, it's interesting to look at the conference records:

SEC: 9-2 (1 of the losses was to another SEC school, LSU vs. Alabama 2011, 5 different SEC schools won a championship - Tennessee, LSU, Bama, Florida, Auburn)
Big 12: 2-5 (Oklahoma and Texas won championships)
ACC: 2-2 (All 4 appearances were by FSU)
Big East: 1-2 (Miami and VT are now in the ACC)
Big Ten: 1-2 (All 3 appearances were by Ohio St)
Pac 12: 1-2 (USC won a championship, which was later vacated due to violations)
Independent: 0-1 (Notre Dame)


When it comes to winning it all, you just can't compare any conference to the SEC, and it was 5 different teams, not just 1 or 2. Interesting to note that the current make-up of the ACC would be the 2nd best BCS league, with Big 12 a close 3rd. Big Ten and Pac-12 are at the bottom by a significant margin.

Props on a very good post. We won the first BCS with an undefeated team and no one can take that away from TN. And the rest of the SEC has represented the league very well.

 

[BigBadVol]

The BCS was a fine enough system, but I think after the first 8 years it became pretty evident that a playoff system was going to come into fruition.

While a 4 team playoff is new and interesting, I really think they dropped the ball by not making it a 6 team playoff system. With a 6 team playoff your #1 and #2 seed get the bye in the first playoff week, then play the winners of the previous weeks match (seed 3-6) and the winner of that game plays for the championship. The seeds would be the conference champions from the big 5 conferences, then 1 for a mid-major or another deserving team (like say, a one loss SEC team). Would make a lot more sense IMO.

Damn another good post.

 

[I-bleed-orange]

Anybody else on here feel like the playoff committee will be a joke?

The fact that Condalisa Rice is on the committee already has me wondering what the hell the committee is thinking. If she is qualified, then so is every member on Volnation. What. A. Joke.

 

[volfan1231]

I do think the best thing the new playoff committee has going for them is Archie Manning & Tom Osborne.

 

[majorvol]

The BCS was pretty close year in year out. I'm glad for the play off system,every team has a off day. Maybe a one loss team will have a chance to make up for a bad day.

 

[feathersax]

Watching the lousy attendance at most bowl games shows how this mad rush to the playoffs has deteriorated the NCAA post-season. I'm in the minority, but I don't like it.

 

[Volumnus 2011]

Watching the lousy attendance at most bowl games shows how this mad rush to the playoffs has deteriorated the NCAA post-season. I'm in the minority, but I don't like it.

Pretty sure bowls had lousy attendance before the playoffs were brought into law

 

[Vols4ever]

The BCS was pretty close year in year out. I'm glad for the play off system,every team has a off day. Maybe a one loss team will have a chance to make up for a bad day.

I am not so sure. If you have a bad day, you don't deserve to be in the NC (if there are teams that did not have a bad day against decent competition). This might make some of the games / results not so interesting.

The oregon loss last year, the Ohio state loss this year with NC opportunity in line.

But then, the 4 teams might make NC games more interesting.

 

[OrangeByBirth]

The playoff will just change the relative controversy. During the BCS it has been about who is number 3. Now it will be about who is number 5 and the relative seeding positions. If it went to 16 teams it would be about number 17. It adds 2 games and makes the bowls a little more meaningless. Of the BCS champs I cannot remember a clear case for any team other than the BCS winner. All the hand wringing and complaining added no value. The winner will still be the winner. It's just going to take an extra win with TV $$ flowing to do it.

 

[ImportedVoL]

Like another said it should be 8 teams... but 4 is much better then the BCS..

Cant wait to see how it works out its first season.

 

[VolFan4Life87]

People will always complain so long as there is a perceived "strength of schedule" argument, which there always would be. A 1-loss Louisville & UCF would complain about missing out on the 4-team playoff while 1-loss Bama & Michigan State get in.

 

[VolFan4Life87]

The playoff will just change the relative controversy. During the BCS it has been about who is number 3. Now it will be about who is number 5 and the relative seeding positions. If it went to 16 teams it would be about number 17. It adds 2 games and makes the bowls a little more meaningless. Of the BCS champs I cannot remember a clear case for any team other than the BCS winner. All the hand wringing and complaining added no value. The winner will still be the winner. It's just going to take an extra win with TV $$ flowing to do it.

2004 Auburn is the only legit controversy I can recall off the top of my head. But any given year, this year included, it could be argued that "this 1 loss team" deserves to get in over "that 1 loss team." The BCS system worked best when two undefeated teams face each other, which isn't always the case.

 

[feathersax]

Pretty sure bowls had lousy attendance before the playoffs were brought into law

Not to this degree! Of course, too many bowls & television are also huge factors. Sometimes I feel sick hoping for the Vols to just slide into one of these third tier bowls, but that's where we are.

 

[Volumnus 2011]

Not to this degree! Of course, too many bowls & television are also huge factors. Sometimes I feel sick hoping for the Vols to just slide into one of these third tier bowls, but that's where we are.

I feel ya there. I'd love to got to the Music City Bowl.

 

[VolFan4Life87]

Not to this degree! Of course, too many bowls & television are also huge factors. Sometimes I feel sick hoping for the Vols to just slide into one of these third tier bowls, but that's where we are.

People are just becoming more apt to staying in, being anti social and watching the game on their big 60" TV's. Attendance to any games especially bowls will continue to slide unless ticket prices match the decreased demand.

 

[utvolpj]

Not to this degree! Of course, too many bowls & television are also huge factors. Sometimes I feel sick hoping for the Vols to just slide into one of these third tier bowls, but that's where we are.

sure they did. A small market team traveling any distance won't put fans in the seats. Even top schools playing for a conf championship struggle