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Originally Posted by PfadtRacing
Disclaimer - This is just one dudes opinion, not necessarily representative of everyone at Pfadt.
I totally agree with you about this being completely about money. From top to bottom everyone wins with a "playoff" system. At least this gives an opportunity for a non BCS school to play for the national championship, even if it takes 2 games to get it done.
Where the argument falls apart is that Non BCS schools never show up to play in their BCS bowl games. Lets take a look at the actual record of Non BCS schools in those games:
04 - Utah rolls a CLEARLY over powered Pittsburg team in a complete joke of a matchup at the Fiesta.
06 - Boise St wins one of the best games of the year against OU
07 - Hawaii gets clobbered by Georgia. No arguments there!
08 - Utah beats Alabama 31-17. (my personal favorite!)
09 - Boise St beats fellow BCS buster TCU.
10 - TCU edges Wisconsin.
That makes Non BCS Schools 4-1 when playing in their BCS Bowl games. I'm not counting the Boise/TCU match up since they were both non BCS Schools in a BCS Game. Seems like a pretty good record to me! No arguments about the depth of talent being deeper in the BCS conferences, but the pattern really seems to be that when a dominant team comes from a non BCS conference they're more than capable of beating up on the big boys too.
As a Utah fan I suppose the point is moot now that we are rolled into the Pac 12, but I still hold out hope that this system makes things a little more equitable for schools like Boise and TCU who recently have had excellent teams on the field but never got a chance to prove their REAL worth. A 1 in 4 chance of being picked for a playoff certainly beats a 0 chance of making a playoff... and this means I get to watch a couple more College games at the end of the season, sweet!
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All valid points BUT it is one or two games out of 15..........Utah could not beat LSU, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida etc.....on a consistent basis on a week in week out type of season...sure they may win one or two but not enough to be in the NC game......
Kinda like Boise St...sure they win a game here and there.....
The big problem with bowl games is it does not give you a true indication of a team.....MEANING OU got beat by Boise St..Agree but OU was not in the game, Just like when Utah beat Alabama....Alabama could have cared less about playing Utah so they didn't show up...it was Utah's Superbowl....you could see it walking around New Orleans but I do think it was Great for Alabama to get smoked by Utah....since then 2 National Championship 24-4 record and all there losses were against top 10 teams.
I think the playoff will be great for the SEC because it pretty much guarantees One if not more teams will be in it at the end and we all know how that has fared the last 8 years.
Alabama is rolling right now no arguements there. Can they be beat? Sure they can and probably will get beat 3 times this year alone. 5 short years ago Alabama was 7-5, then 12-2, then 14-0, 11-3 and 12-1.
The SEC schools have consitently beaten every confernce they have played in Bowl Games and Championship games...sure you may have a fluke year but when you pit the best of the SEC against the Best of other conferences they just don't stack up.
I love the little guy just as much as they next person but I go back to the Money aspect.
Example Boise St claims they will play anyone anywhere...YEAH right....they forget to publicize what they want to play...They want 75% of the gate on away games pPLUS a home and home...........75% Really? Home and Home...NOT....Boist St 's stadium holds what 35000 at most, Bryant Denny holds 101,000...Why in the world would Alabama go to Boise to play, or Tennessee, Michigan, OU, USC, Florida they aren't...No Money in it and its a no win game....no matter what they do they will be criticized.
What will be interesting is how they choose the top 4!