A Great Mockery of the BCS System

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by munny

You don't even need to have 32 teams. Just do 8 and the rest can be in bowls. You could use the BCS for that - which in my opinion is no worse than a bunch of damn sports reporters voting. The point is to give the most deserving teams a chance to play for the title. Sure, you can argue about who might be 7 or 8, but you would at least know that a 3/4 wasn't getting screwed out of a chance. 3 weeks would do it.

Uh, the BCS is a bunch of damn sportswriters voting. That's what's wrong with it. There's absolutely no standard and its heavily founded on preconcieved (and often preseason) notions.

I could see a playoff system with the top 8 teams, but how do you decide who makes the top eight?

To me, a playoff system solves no problems. It just expands the Championship field to include some teams who should not be playing for a championship. If the NCAA can't come up with a better way to rank teams than letting the sportswriters make polls (the worst possible way), then they system will be inherently flawed no matter what.

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Uh, the BCS is a bunch of damn sportswriters voting. That's what's wrong with it. There's absolutely no standard and its heavily founded on preconcieved (and often preseason) notions.

I could see a playoff system with the top 8 teams, but how do you decide who makes the top eight?

To me, a playoff system solves no problems. It just expands the Championship field to include some teams who should not be playing for a championship. If the NCAA can't come up with a better way to rank teams than letting the sportswriters make polls (the worst possible way), then they system will be inherently flawed no matter what.

I think 8 would be too few, but 32 would be too many, so 16 would be just about right.
Besides, Boise ST. went undefeated last year and they barely made the 8th spot. That wasn't right. I'd love to see a plan that had the top 25 in it. Everyone shoots for the top 25, so if they could come up with a playoff plan that included them, I'd be hooked!