BCS Standings (10/24)

• enigmaax

  Little Danny;532821 wrote:Your post is what irritates me and most people who do not root for the "big boys". Based on your logic everyone else might as way take their ball and go home and leave it all up to about 10-15 teams to play for the national championship every year. That is complete BS and what is wrong with college football. If TCU, Boise or freaking BFE U. are undefeated, then they desere a shot to play whomever for the national title.
  
  If your rationale applied to college basketball, then Butler would have been told to stay home last year while the NCAA had a tournament of UK, Duke, UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas, Michigan State, Indiana, Georgetown , Syracuse and UCONN.

  
  Serious question and maybe I have the wrong person, but aren't you an attorney or something? You put in a lot of work and spent a lot of money to get the job you have. My cousin, who is just some chump working a union job that happens to be really smart but was always unmotivated, represented himself in court and beat the county prosecutor. Does that prove that he should just be handed a law degree?
• Little Danny

  

  ^^^ uh, talk about Apples to Oranges... I am not even sure how to respond to your post or how it compares with my response to the linked post.
• enigmaax

  Little Danny;532849 wrote:^^^ uh, talk about Apples to Oranges... I am not even sure how to respond to your post.

  
  Same principle. You gotta earn your way regardless of what you might be able to put together one time. That one win (and in Boise's case, it is one really good win that you wouldn't give two shits about if it were anyone else) doesn't give you a bitch point to try and be something you aren't. You do your job every single day.
  
  You can talk about the NCAA tournament all day long, but that isn't what college football has. You get two teams and you can't afford to give out a free pass. The fact that Butler is such a shining example and it has happened one time in 30 or more years just highlights how little being the engine that could really means.
• ytownfootball

  

  I personally take issue with you saying they "deserve" a shot, because let's be honest Danny, they don't.
  
  Hypothetically, just to illustrate...Team A plays "Sisters of the Poor" 12 games and goes 12-0. Team B plays "BCS Juggernauts" 12 games and goes 11-1.
  
  By your logic, Team A deserves the shot to play against whomever?
  
  I just don't buy that shit.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Al Bundy;532806 wrote:Boise (and all other colleges) create their schedules. Maybe Boise would be better off going independent and willing to play a monster schedule. When Miami and Florida State wanted to join the big boys in the 80's they would schedule anyone, and it took their program to big time levels.

  
  Boise State won't even schedule the big boys unless they get a home game in the deal, as though they are in a position to demand Oklahoma or Florida travel to play on their blue field with 30,000 seats in the stadium.
• wildcats20

  

  Cleveland Buck;532897 wrote:Boise State won't even schedule the big boys unless they get a home game in the deal, as though they are in a position to demand Oklahoma or Florida travel to play on their blue field with 30,000 seats in the stadium.

  
  Boise said no to Nebraska when Nebraska was offering a 3 game series(I believe) with 1 of the games being a neutral site.
  
  Or maybe it was a 2 game series. One in Lincoln and one at a neutral site.
• enigmaax

  wildcats20;532909 wrote:Boise said no to Nebraska when Nebraska was offering a 3 game series(I believe) with 1 of the games being a neutral site.
  
  Or maybe it was a 2 game series. One in Lincoln and one at a neutral site.

  
  'Cause they wanted a million dollars to boot. You know, 'cause they'll play anyone and nobody wants to play them.......for a million dollars.
• OQB

  

  ^^
  I know Boise will never play in a championship unless they join a BCS conference and still win games like they are right now, not arguing that point.
  
  Boise should go independent and schedule tougher games absolutely....but will they still be looked upon as a lesser team?
• OQB

  

  I just hate not having a playoff system that lets the players decide who is the best, rather than a stupid computer.
• ytownfootball

  

  Look, it's a little tough to get the credibility you seek when you play on a damn cartoon playing surface.
  
  It's retarded. When they go blue on blues with that damn field color...it's fuckin' unwatchable.
• OQB

  

  football is football...I bet you watched the game against VT, and Oregon St......
• ytownfootball

  

  VT game yeah I watched...Oregon St?....not a chance, I tried and I have high def...un-fucking-watchable. Period.
  
  You keep saying "a stupid computer". Do you have any clue as to how the BCS generates their rankings?
• OQB

  

  yes...
  
  
  1/3 harris poll
  1/3 coaches poll
  1/3 computers
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Boise State beats Fresno State by 38 points. Alabama beats Auburn by 3. So Boise is the better team? Hell fucking no.
• OQB

  

  Why do we even rank Boise and TCU then?
• ytownfootball

  

  OrrvilleQB;532986 wrote:Why do we even rank Boise and TCU then?

  
  Because Wyoming, LA Tech, Tennessee Tech and Idaho could have break out years.
• OQB

  

  No I am being serious, why do we rank them that high if obviously they could not hang with the "big boys" and don't play the hard schedule?
  
  
  Why let them play in a BCS bowl game, and leave out a team that has played a harder schedule?
• ytownfootball

  

  I am being serious. If those teams perform well, then by defeating those teams, Boise and TCU climb higher in the BCS. And "we" didn't let them do anything, they earned their BCS bowl bid by where they finished. You and others don't like the bowl they played in nor their opponent, they didn't either but they got paid.
• OQB

  

  It just sounds kind of hipocritical by saying they don't play a hard schedule and don't deserve to be up there with the "big boys" so and so is a better team etc etc....then why let them play in a BCS bowl game if they are so called "not as good as those other teams". Just sounds hipocritical. Either they deserve it or not...
• ytownfootball

  

  It's not hypocritical, it's fact.
  
  If you and your defeated opponents perform well, you'll be ranked highly. But if another team has equal success and their defeated opponents are better than your defeated opponents you won't finish ahead of them and you don't go to the ship.
• OQB

  

  So if they schedule one more real football game against a big time opponent....in addition to the two that they have played, would they be #1 then? I doubt it, because then the argument will be well they only play three really tough games this year.
  
  
  Ohio State plays a tougher schedule than Boise, why aren't they ranked higher?
  
  The point is their is too much controversy with this system and we never truely know who the #1 team is at the end of the season. It's just stupid.
• Spread All Day

  

  I see bama playing for the BCS natl championship.
  auburn will lose to bama, oregon will lose to either usc or oregon st.
  tcu may not lose but bama will jump them, and mich st. will lose.
• OQB

  

  exactly...if we already know that Bama, and all these BCS conference teams are "better" than Boise and TCU, why rank them ahead of those schools?
• Al Bundy

  Little Danny;532821 wrote:Your post is what irritates me and most people who do not root for the "big boys". Based on your logic everyone else might as way take their ball and go home and leave it all up to about 10-15 teams to play for the national championship every year. That is complete BS and what is wrong with college football. If TCU, Boise or freaking BFE U. are undefeated, then they desere a shot to play whomever for the national title.
  
  If your rationale applied to college basketball, then Butler would have been told to stay home last year while the NCAA had a tournament of UK, Duke, UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas, Michigan State, Indiana, Georgetown , Syracuse and UCONN.

  If college basketball only picked two teams after the regular season to play in the championship game, Butler would not have been one of them. Butler earmed their way to the championship by beating top teams in the tournament. They didn't earn their way to the championship by beating the YSU and the other Horizon League teams.
• enigmaax

  OrrvilleQB;533034 wrote:
  The point is their is too much controversy with this system and we never truely know who the #1 team is at the end of the season. It's just stupid.

  
  I guess people love stupidity then because there's a lot of bitching, but everybody's still watching.
  
  From your screen name, I'll assume you play/played HS football. Do you have a problem with the way the Ohio rating system works? While there are more teams who make the playoffs obviously, those teams are determined by simple math in which you get points for winning and points when your opponents win. My high school was left out of the playoffs at 9-1 one year while multiple 5-5 teams have made it in our region. Was that unfair?
  
  If Boise and like schools feel they aren't getting their due, why don't they band together and create their own little playoff system? You know why, right? They're much more interested in the money they can make off the big dogs while still portraying themselves as the little guy who can't get any respect. It is win-win for them when the public buys the nonsense.