BCS Selection Show LD

[klunderbunker]

So Georgia made it further in the season by making it to the conference title game, they lost a nail biter, but Florida is going to the BCS instead of Georgia, even though Georgia beat Florida earlier this year.

Isn't college football great?

 

[klunderbunker]

Northern Illinois vs. FSU in the Orange Bowl.

 

[Lowdown]

Just want to know which bowl UCLA is playing in, and possibly USC.

 

[Lowdown]

I can't stand Kirk Herbstreit man. He doesn't think NIU deserves a bowl bid? Really?

 

[klunderbunker]

Wait so Northern Illinois is #16 in the BCS standings and are going to a BCS game, but Oklahoma, #11 in the standings, isn't? How did this system get this complicated?

 

[klunderbunker]

I can't stand Kirk Herbstreit man. He doesn't think NIU deserves a bowl bid? Really?

He doesn't think they deserve a spot over OU.

Louisville (#21) vs. Florida (#3) in the Sugar Bowl.

Stanford (#6) vs. Wisconsin (Not ranked) in the Rose Bowl.

Oregon (#4) vs. Kansas State (#5) in the Fiesta Bowl

So unless I'm missing something, the standings mean absolutely nothing outside of the national title game and the Fiesta Bowl.

 

[Lowdown]

He doesn't think they deserve a spot over OU.

Louisville (#21) vs. Florida (#3) in the Sugar Bowl.

Stanford vs. Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl (neither ranked).

Oregon (#4) vs. Kansas State (#5) in the Fiesta Bowl

So unless I'm missing something, the standings mean absolutely nothing outside of the national title game and the Fiesta Bowl.

I agree that the BCS is bullshit. But isn't Stanford ranked #8? Granted Oregon probably should've won the PAC 12, the Rose Bowl game always featured the PAC 12 and Big 10 champs.

 

[klunderbunker]

Yeah they're ranked sixth. ESPN didn't see the need to put a number next to their name.

 

[Lowdown]

Speaking of which KB, how many BCS games are there? I figured with all the bowl games they have they were all BCS.

 

[Lowdown]

Yeah they're ranked sixth. ESPN didn't see the need to put a number next to their name.

Ah the mother ship.

 

[klunderbunker]

Speaking of which KB, how many BCS games are there? I figured with all the bowl games they have they were all BCS.

National Title
Rose
Orange
Fiesta
Sugar

 

[Stormtrooper]

He doesn't think they deserve a spot over OU.

Louisville (#21) vs. Florida (#3) in the Sugar Bowl.

Stanford vs. Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl (neither ranked).

Oregon (#4) vs. Kansas State (#5) in the Fiesta Bowl

So unless I'm missing something, the standings mean absolutely nothing outside of the national title game and the Fiesta Bowl.

Not at all.

The standings are only to decide Number 1 and Number 2. Numbers 3 through 25 only determine an automatic qualifier.
-Florida is a non conference winner from an AQ conference that finished #3 so they get in Automatically
-Louisville, Stanford, Wisconsin, K-State, and FSU all get in as Conference Champions form AQ conferences.
-NIU gets in because they are a non AQ conference Champ ranked 16 or high AND higher then a conference champ from an AQ conference (Big East and Big 10 Champs are both ranked lower).
-Oregon was the lone team selected (rightfully so I might add, they deserve it over the 3rd SEC team)


Hell, teams ranked lower then 14 are not even allowed to be selected for the bowl, so it's not even like 17-25 mean anything anyway.

 

[Slyfox696]

So Georgia made it further in the season by making it to the conference title game, they lost a nail biter, but Florida is going to the BCS instead of Georgia, even though Georgia beat Florida earlier this year.

Isn't college football great?

Nothing will ever be worse than when Mizzou got shafted by the BCS.

 

[Lowdown]

National Title
Rose
Orange
Fiesta
Sugar

Will this new playoff system work out better?

 

[klunderbunker]

Will this new playoff system work out better?

It means they'll actually play it out on the field instead of on a computer.

Not at all.

The standings are only to decide Number 1 and Number 2. Numbers 3 through 25 only determine an automatic qualifier.
-Florida is a non conference winner from an AQ conference that finished #3 so they get in Automatically
-Louisville, Stanford, Wisconsin, K-State, and FSU all get in as Conference Champions form AQ conferences.
-NIU gets in because they are a non AQ conference Champ ranked 16 or high AND higher then a conference champ from an AQ conference (Big East and Big 10 Champs are both ranked lower).
-Oregon was the lone team selected (rightfully so I might add, they deserve it over the 3rd SEC team)


Hell, teams ranked lower then 14 are not even allowed to be selected for the bowl, so it's not even like 17-25 mean anything anyway.

In other words: the regular season means......more or less nothing unless you're in a major conference or get really lucky.

 

[Lowdown]

When did San Jose State creep into the top 25?

 

[Stormtrooper]

In other words: the regular season means......more or less nothing unless you're in a major conference or get really lucky.

EXACTLY. That's the secret of College Football. The Regular Season means nothing, even though they try and tell you every game matters. All that matters is winning your conference. Look at Wisconsin. 5 losses and they are in the fucking Rose Bowl.


And Kirk Herbstreit needs to realize that a 1 loss Northern Iowa deserves a shot over Wisconsin.

 

[klunderbunker]

Yet some people still say this mess is better than a playoff.

 

[Slyfox696]

Yet some people still say this mess is better than a playoff.

Yes, those who make money from it. Like Wisconsin and the Big 10, who don't deserve a team in the BCS.

 

[Megatron]

They do, it's just their deserving team is ineligible.

 

[Slyfox696]

They do, it's just their deserving team is ineligible.

Which means they don't deserve it.

 

[Stormtrooper]

Yet some people still say this mess is better than a playoff.

Those people are what we like to call dumbasses.

And I don't know about you all, but I'd LOVE to see Northern Iowa destroy Florida State in the Orange Bowl.

 

[klunderbunker]

Those people are what we like to call dumbasses.

And I don't know about you all, but I'd LOVE to see Northern Iowa destroy Florida State in the Orange Bowl.

Isn't it interesting that the small schools that get in almost always have to basically play against the other team in the other team's backyard?

 

[Stormtrooper]

Isn't it interesting that the small schools that get in almost always have to basically play against the other team in the other team's backyard?

What ends up happening is that the bowls that don't have tie-ins pick the teams from the pool of eligible teams. Orange Bowl had the last pick, and got stuck with Northern Iowa. It just so happens that the last pick was for a bowl against a "home team."

Isn't it also interesting that all these bowl games get played in the south (Florida/New Orleans) or warm weather (Arizona/LA)? How about they have a BCS Bowl in Metlife Stadium (or Yankee Stadium), or Gillette Stadium in New England, or Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philly, or even Detroit in the fucking Dome, where at least these SEC teams have to actually get out of their warm weather environment they are used to.

 

[Con T.]

Isn't it also interesting that all these bowl games get played in the south (Florida/New Orleans) or warm weather (Arizona/LA)? How about they have a BCS Bowl in Metlife Stadium (or Yankee Stadium), or Gillette Stadium in New England, or Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philly, or even Detroit in the fucking Dome, where at least these SEC teams have to actually get out of their warm weather environment they are used to.

Pretending bowl games
Aren't just for the audience
Is very fruitless

Fans want to travel to games in warm weather. Yes, yes, spare me the argument of Giants Stadium getting the Superbowl next year, woul you rather travel to Miami, or to somewhere like Pittsburgh.



Also, these games are played in areas to make it easier for the fans to travel to. And most, if not all, teams from the northeast suck varying amounts of ass