SoCalDukeFan
11-25-2012, 05:30 PM
Multi division conferences and other quirks have created the following this year:
1. UCLA lost to Stanford yesterday. Next Friday UCLA plays Stanford for the Pac 12 Title. Had UCLA lost, they would have had to go to Oregon.
2. If Georgia Tech beats FSU, they get the Orange Bowl, if they lose, probably no Bowl. They are bowl eligible now but have to play in the ACC Championship game only because Miami and UNC-CH can't. In other words, if Miami and UNC-CH were not cheaters, Georgia Tech would be in a bowl.
If Notre Dame had lost yesterday, then BCS would probably be choosing between Oregon and Florida to play the winner of the SEC Title Game. Oregon and Florida can not lose their conference title game because they are not playing in it.
The problem is that the selection criteria penalizes teams for losing, especially late in the season, and does not reward winner. Going to four teams will probably make it worse.
In my opinion
1. If your conference has a championship game, then only participants in that game should be eligible for the BCS Championship game or the 4 teams tournament. So Alabama would have been out last year. They actually got rewarded for losing to LSU in the regular season last year.
2. If you play in a conference championship game then you are bowl eligible regardless of your won loss record.
I would actually like to see only conference champions and independents eligible for the BCS game and the 4 team tournament but the SEC would not allow that.
SoCal
1. UCLA lost to Stanford yesterday. Next Friday UCLA plays Stanford for the Pac 12 Title. Had UCLA lost, they would have had to go to Oregon.
2. If Georgia Tech beats FSU, they get the Orange Bowl, if they lose, probably no Bowl. They are bowl eligible now but have to play in the ACC Championship game only because Miami and UNC-CH can't. In other words, if Miami and UNC-CH were not cheaters, Georgia Tech would be in a bowl.
If Notre Dame had lost yesterday, then BCS would probably be choosing between Oregon and Florida to play the winner of the SEC Title Game. Oregon and Florida can not lose their conference title game because they are not playing in it.
The problem is that the selection criteria penalizes teams for losing, especially late in the season, and does not reward winner. Going to four teams will probably make it worse.
In my opinion
1. If your conference has a championship game, then only participants in that game should be eligible for the BCS Championship game or the 4 teams tournament. So Alabama would have been out last year. They actually got rewarded for losing to LSU in the regular season last year.
2. If you play in a conference championship game then you are bowl eligible regardless of your won loss record.
I would actually like to see only conference champions and independents eligible for the BCS game and the 4 team tournament but the SEC would not allow that.
SoCal