UT vs OU for BCS Champ (yes, another CFB thread)

If the human pollsters only move Florida up slightly after beating the consensus #1 team, then they're idiots.

And I have absolutely no love for FU or Bama either.  I'm just realistic about it.

We can "what if" until the cows come home, or just play the games and let the system sort it out.

My theory is that all this "what if" discussion is what keeps us from having a real playoff. as long as so much time, energy and interest is devoted to the discussion, there's no incentive to change things.

And I'm only half kidding.

The Geezer Plan

One of the problems in ranking teams is the lack of interconference games in the regular season.  I have an idea for an intermediate step toward a playoff system.  My idea is a national interconference day.  In my plan, every school in Div 1-A would have a single date with an unscheduled opponent near the end of the season (next to last week seems good).  On this date, a selection committee would pick near equal interconference  matchups for every team.   The results for all games go into the computer rankings (and human ranking) to select the top ranking teams for the BCS bowl games.  This idea preserves the traditional bowl games and length of the football schedule and adds one very interesting day of football to the schedule.  The only thing lost is the cannon fodder games early in the season  that teams would otherwise play against directional schools.   I think it is all good. 

TW 

The other part of the idea is that the Big 10 becomes a Division 2 conference.

I agree totally (and this coming from a Hog fan who will accept the unearned gift from the Tigers)

The logistics of transporting the entire football operation of half of all major colleges to a random location on a week's notice renders this undoable.

You know ahead of time that you are either a home team or an away team.  So you either have a plane chartered or have the stadium ready.  No problem.  Why are old bankers so slow?

TW

Not to mention that the fans would not know where their team would be playing (or if they would be playing) from week to week.  Trying to buy tickets andget travel arrangements in less than a week would be impossible.

...and for the record I hate the polls..

(and it's UF... not FU <phhht>

I think I read that one of the computer polls (Harris?) ignores margin of victory. 

Same ticket arrangements as conference games.  Normal season ticket packages for the home teams.   Visiting team gets about 1000 tickets to sell or distribute to big donors just like now.   Not a problem of lots of fans traveling on short notice like bowl games.   The matchups could be selected in the 9 week for the game on the 11th week of the season giving everybody two weeks to get ready and scout.  You guys have no imagination.

TW

Margin of victory is such a bad way to decide things in college sports - it will (has in the past) really hurt the idea of sportsmanship.  I loved that my Horns put the hurt on A&M on Thanksgiving - they won by 40 with the 2nd team offense scoring the last touchdown.  Do we really need to beat them by 60, or 70, to improve our rankings, either in the polls or by the computer?  That's the weakest part of the OU intead of Texas argument, in my opinion, that OU beat Tech by 40 and OSU by 20 and beat all these teams by XX pts.  I think Colt McCoy has only seen the 4th quarter about 4 times all year....

As for FL beating Bama and there being a UT/OU rematch for the national title, I think it's unlikely.  As a Horns fan, I'm not going to complain about a scenario that gives us our shot, but I'd much prefer for Mizzou to play up to pre-season expectations and find a way to beat OU.  Even then, honestly, I'm not wild about having a team that's not your conference champion play for the national title, but that's just me.

Now, if the uproar from a UT/OU rematch is enough to actually force a playoff system of some kind (yeah, right....), then I'd be even more ok with it.

I think I've finally started switching gears from "Man...wtf?!?!?" to "Ok, play well, win the bowl game, and come out hot next year." 

Hook 'em!

So team A beats team B by 3 points.  Team A beats team C by 60 points.  From that alone who is the better team B or C.  All other things being equal it's B.

I've always said... if you don't want me "running up" (I hate that term) the score then stop me.  It has nothing to do with sportsmanship.  The point of the game is to score as many points as possible.  Should be be sure to give the loosing team trophies too so they don't feel bad?

That's a huge leap of an assumption, that running up the scores is the result of leaving your starters in. Often time these powerhouses can do this with second and third strings by continuing aggressive play calling, rather than opting to run out the clock.

What if C beats B?

Exactly.  Florida put in their second string against FSU last week and STILL scored again.