Worst-case scenario is here
OK. I'm done with it. I've danced with the BCS as long as I can, and I must now ask for a new partner. Here we are, with the regular season over, and we're resorted to having coaches argue for their teams like politicians for something that can't be effectively argued for.
And then, because of some contractual obligation slipped in to preserve some arcane tradition that dates back to, oh, the mid-1970s, should LSU vault four spaces past Georgia ... the Bulldogs will more than likely slide into the Sugar Bowl to play Hawaii.
Hawaii.
Screw it. Either give me a six- or eight-team playoff or abolish conference tie-ins, thus freeing the BCS bowls to put together the best matchups possible. Southern Cal vs. Illinois? Oklahoma vs. Kansas? Georgia vs. Hawaii?
And then, because of some contractual obligation slipped in to preserve some arcane tradition that dates back to, oh, the mid-1970s, should LSU vault four spaces past Georgia ... the Bulldogs will more than likely slide into the Sugar Bowl to play Hawaii.
Hawaii.
Screw it. Either give me a six- or eight-team playoff or abolish conference tie-ins, thus freeing the BCS bowls to put together the best matchups possible. Southern Cal vs. Illinois? Oklahoma vs. Kansas? Georgia vs. Hawaii?
posted by Jmac at 9:51 AM
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ROSE ROSE ROSE ROSE ROSE ROSE ROSE ROSE!
Today is going to be a loooooong day.
ILL........
.........INI
Careful - I wouldn't start dissing Hawaii - Is it a marque match-up? No, but they are just as deserving to be there as UGA after our South Carolina and Tennessee losses. We blew our our fortune when we lost to one of the two above teams. Hawaii rebounded nicely last night to fend off a surging 1st half Washington team. If we wind up against them, I wouldn't start complaining just yet.
You are of course right about the need for a playoff instead of this crap.
The Rose bowl, despite how cagey they play it in interviews during the buildup to selection day, are fiery traditionalists in their own right. Eliminating conference tie-ins would do little good except in years where the Rose Bowl picks last. B/c the Rose bowl officials will pick a Pac10 Big10 matchup of their own free will, every time they are possibly able to do so. They have no qualms about it, and they get furious whenever BCS rules keep it from happening.
It's not BCS selection rules keeping UGA from the Rose bowl. It's the Rose Bowl itself.
I'd love to be proven wrong, of course..
Xon is absolutely right. I am a life-long Illinois fan and I am under no illusions about how Illinois gets to play in the Rose Bowl and Georgia doesn't. It's nothing but tradition. To be perfectly honest, I would prefer a Georgia-USC match-up to Illinois-USC and not just because it would have meant that Zook would have been able to face Florida!
Well, I still have new beefs with the BCS ... and it's inability to exert pressure on the existing bowls to break this false 'tradition' which ultimately rewarded a three-loss Illinois team to the detriment of not just Georgia, but also a two-loss Arizona State team that just got the shaft too.
I'm done with the BCS. We need a six- or eight-team playoff.
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