How do these guys stay in the rankings after another drubbing. Stanford at 14 also questionable. Destroying a bad team does not make you a good team. Boise will discover this fact when they play in the last week of December vice a BCS game.
How do these guys stay in the rankings after another drubbing. Stanford at 14 also questionable. Destroying a bad team does not make you a good team. Boise will discover this fact when they play in the last week of December vice a BCS game.
i agree with USC being overrated. their only good win this year was against Ohio St. - who isn't even that good.
as for Stanford, they just beat Oregon as well. they are pretty freaking good. and as you stated, they didn't squeak by USC, they murdered them. the most points EVER given up by a USC team.
That's why we need a playoffs with the 12 DI-A conference champions plus one independent. With NO seeding, NO SOS, NO wildcards. No evening gown points, no handicap points, no bathing suit points, no legacy points, no hairstyle and makeup points, no tradition points, no alumni points.
I don't know that we'll ever see a playoff but if they ever make it happen it will be the coolest event in sports.
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That's why we need a playoffs with the 12 DI-A conference champions plus one independent. With NO seeding, NO SOS, NO wildcards. No evening gown points, no handicap points, no bathing suit points, no legacy points, no hairstyle and makeup points, no tradition points, no alumni points.
Then you would see no incentive to play out of conference teams during the regular season.
OOC games do not count and should not count for conference.
USC really is overrated. But it seems like there is always a delay in people recognizing a changing of the guard. Every poll in every sport seems to work this way. Rankings have some sort of inertia built in.
More profitably, the same is true in the stock market. There is always a significant delay between when a company starts to lose it (or "gain it") and when the market reacts. But, just as with the polls it takes some guts to go against the received wisdom before everyone else does.
richard wright wrote: agree with USC being overrated. their only good win this year was against Ohio St. - who isn't even that good.
...yet is ranked 9th in the country and just beat Penn St and Iowa back to back weekends.
What I find really remarkable about this season in college football is that midway through november there are 6 undefeated teams and only 2 one-loss teams. Has anything like this ever happened before?
Yeah gotta believe there will be four undefeated teams at the end: UT, Fl/Ala, TCU, and Boise. If that's the case Natl Champ game is a no-brainer. TCU should get a BCS game and for the hell of it I wouldn't mind seeing Boise play in one. They probably will get smoked but they've earned a freebie with that win against OK in '07. If both TCU and Boise get a BCS I hope they don't play each other for two reasons: 1. One of them remains undefeated and 2. Neither is the best team in D1A.
The words "national champion" that you hear in the media with respect to the BCS is an insult to sports. There's no NC in NCAA DI-A and never has been in over 100 years of football. Alls there has been are poll champs, and BCS winners.
Theres no incentive to play out of conference as it is! Florida, Alabama, and Texas all played cupcakes out of conference because they know with their names and an undefeated record, they will play for the Title. Boise St. and TCU, on the other hand, played tough out of conference schedules and get nothing for it. Boise is begging for a big 6 conference team to invite them to play in their stadium, and no one will accept. They don't even want a return game on the blue field. And look at what happened to playing out of conference for USC and OSU...they peak early and get beat by awful teams in the following weeks. How about save the non-conference games for the 16 TEAM PLAYOFF. What a novel idea! Its only been decades of awesomeness for NCAA basketball. TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise St. all deserve shots at top big conference teams. But they won't get it...because the NCAA wants Florida vs. Texas and will get what they want.
Cincy is the team gonna get shafted, TCU and Boise don't even play in a real conference.
How about save the non-conference games for the 16 TEAM PLAYOFF. What a novel idea! Its only been decades of awesomeness for NCAA basketball. TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise St. all deserve shots at top big conference teams. But they won't get it...because the NCAA wants Florida vs. Texas and will get what they want.
The Ncaa office is totally not involved in DI-A FB after conferences. There's enough work for the rest of the Ncaa that have a playoff brackets.
Re-aligning DI-A from 11 to 15 conferences, and mandating a minimum of 10 conference games, would be a good start. But there should be no possibility of a wildcard. Above the 10 mandatory conference games, teams should be able to play as many non-conference games as they can fit in. For instance those teams not in the playoff brackets can choose to play in bowl games.
The Mountain West is stronger than the big east is.
Do you mean the total student athlete populace can lift more weight than the Big East student athlete populace? I don't have data on that, however if you mean football, lay off the crack.