BCS Busters Thanks You - His Loyal Followers!
November 14, 2007 by bcsbusters
Today marked a milestone for this blog. In less than three months, I have achieved the 10,000 visitors bench mark. I thank all of you readers very much and hope in the very least that I have made you consider some hard to swallow circumstances that are actually occurring and controlling college football.
Conspiracy is a tough word to handle, for we immediately think of 9 -11, the JFK and RFK assassinations or other worldly events. But with college football now achieving the billion dollar benchmark annually, do you think the television networks as well as the elite members of college football in terms of history and tradition are just going to sit around and watch the money stream go by without casting their net of significance?
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The BCS Busters Model: Truly making every game a playoff in college football!
It has been a while as I have had to face some adversity in my life but TNB is back up and I am back around so I just wanted to drop by and congratulate you on your milestone!!!
CONGRATS AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, BEN!!!!
-Matt
TNB
I’ve read your blog but I’m not a supporter. My main opposition to a playoff (and conference championships too for that matter) is this — a team should not have to replay a team that it has already beaten. Oklahoma should not have to replay Missouri. Boston College should not have to replay Virgina Tech. Oklahoma and BC have already settled the matter as far as I’m concerned.
You express concern that the BCS is not “fair”. How fair is it that one team has only to beat their opponent once to advance while the other has to beat their opponent twice. And before you bring it up, superior teams find a way to win when they are not playing on a neutral field. That’s the way it’s been for 138 years. You get one chance to prove you’re the better team.
My biggest complaint about playoff proponents is that I think 90% of them are college basketball lovers and want to see the excellence (?) of college basketball replicated to college football. John Feinstein is the worst of these by far (http://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/john-feinstein-%E2%99%A5-brackets/).
College football is fundamentally different from college basketball. The nature of the sport would have to radically change in order to adopt a playoff. I personally love cf just the way it is. Warts and all.
-Greg
I appreciate the feedback Greg. However, I find it a little contradictory that you don’t agree with my playoff model, yet you support the system just the way it is. If that is the case, the current conference championship games, since the SEC invented this back in the early 1990’s, often times matches up teams who have already played in a given season.
As a matter of fact, the rematch scenario is the norm for the conference championship games, not the exception, so you have kind of contradicted yourself there. My model wouldn’t be any different than what is already occurring and it gives a team like Georgia, who reinvented itself after a couple of key losses, and is arguably playing the best football in the conference, a chance to compete for the title.
Is Georgia’s 10-2 mark any different than LSU’s? Yes Tennessee did beat Georgia, but Georgia throttled Florida and Florida throttled Tennessee. I’m not really sure who was better and this is a microcosm for the SEC because in years past Auburn and LSU were arguably the best teams yet were not even in the championship game. The current championship game equations are extremely flawed because they don’t match-up the two best teams in the conference, just the two top teams in each division.
The playoff system I have developed isn’t anything even close to the March Madness affair and it virtually keeps everything in tact in the current platform with the exception of the bogus match-ups in early September.
It is equally hard to embrace the current system given the significant alliance in the polls afforded to the elite schools that supported the college football association movement.
I’m all for a West Virginia - Missouri title game, but given the current arrangement, do we really think these are the two best teams? Would anyone really like to play USC at this time of year? With that in mind, you could include Kansas, Ohio State, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma or Boston College or Virginia Tech for that matter.
I’m sure you are most likely a fan from Big-12, SEC or Big-10 Country and one of the main reasons you most likely support the current model is your team is most likely one of the protected teams within the polls. Who wouldn’t want to see the system change given all the SEC and Big-12 teams that are highly over-ranked and constantly afforded elite poll positions often times before a single game is played and even when they do lose they only drop a spot or two.
How is it that Arizona State has fallen all the way to 13th in the BCS when they beat Colorado (by 19 points), while Oklahoma lost to this same team and Kansas only beat Colorado by 5? Arizona State arguably lost to two of the hottest teams in the country in USC and Oregon (obviously they are currently less than spectacular due to all the injuries). I can see why Missouri would be ranked higher due to their 55-10 walloping of the Buffalo’s, but its a little hard to swallow with Oklahoma and Kansas due to the fact that the Okies lost to two teams who were unranked while ASU lost to two teams that were highly ranked.
The playoff system that I have developed simply organizes a chronological sequence of match-ups as part of the regular season to determine on the field who is the best. It is not an NFL Model nor does it even come close to mimicking the NCAA Basketball Model. It virtually keeps the system in tact and it would most certainly work because teams play conference championships (week 9 & 10) and then regional match-ups (SEC vs ACC, Big-10 vs Big-East..etc) in week 11, before finally arriving at one single cross country match-up in week 12 to determine the bowl games. The issue of the fans being unable to attend is complete hogwash because it is only one game, occurring in week #12 and given the importance - If you build it ( a season record of 11-1 or 10-2) they will come.
Hurricane Katrina kind of burst this fallacy as the season opener between LSU and Arizona State two years ago wasn’t moved from LSU until Tuesday of game week and they sold nearly 80,000 tickets for this game in four days!
Why you wouldn’t support my model is beyond me but hey, lets get all excited for Missouri and West Virginia when, just like in every other year, we the fans will never know who is the best of the best. It is a ridiculous model, which this season has proven - just like in years past, and it is a model in which this season has also exposed the CFA - Harris POll / Coaching Poll alliances which support the same teams who supported and defended the college football association movement. This is why I don’t support the system - The Polls are an absolute JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With all that is going on in BCS land today, why no updates???
Thanks for stopping by Kevin,
I have read many of your comments over the course of three years over at Palm’s site. The main reason I haven’t been updating is I have set a January 1 deadline date for my book manuscript project and I am busy working to develop a new website for this project as well.
I have also lost a little love for college football as this years version of the BCS Controversy has taken me to an all-time low. If you can’t figure it out, in light of the information I have detailed throughout this website, what is actually going on in the college football world today, then you will never be able to see the tree’s through the forest, or the irony behind the college football story.
I have many close friends who work at Division I schools, mostly in the sport of baseball, and they ALL called me this week to express what a complete racket college football has become. I will detail it for many as the book project finally comes to a close, and I think college football has lost a tremendous fan, because I could hardly stomach the last three weeks when I knew where it was headed. I would bet in the last two weeks I didn’t watch an hours worth of football. I wonder how many other die hard college football fans feel the same way?
When many people claim that every game is so vitally important, my thoughts are the opposite. With the results we have seen this season, why did we even play the games given these ridculous results. Was every game so vitally important for Missouri, who is playing in the Cotton Bowl against a very average Arkansas program, when taking the three patsy wins out of their equation that 8-4 record turns into 5-4, when two of the teams they have beaten are playing in the BCS? This is just one example. How about 8-4 Michigan playing in an elite bowl against Florida when an Oregon team who absolutely man-handled them is relegated to the Sun and its boring and obscure bowl landscape? You could say the same for South Florida after beating Auburn. Check out Auburns bowl compared to South Florida.
The only contests that matter are for the chosen 15-20 schools who were tabbed elite by the college football association 30 years ago.