re: this is what pisses me off about the bcs

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Should they be precluded because their opponents turned out sucky, while they were actually a really good team?

Playoffs.

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playoffs are the obvious answer, but until they are a reality, WHO a team has beaten - and/or who has beaten them - has to be the deciding factor.

When a team runs over a bunch of teams that everyone else has beaten, what does it say?

A team can 'look good' playing a patsy - just like they can 'look good' in practice. You don't know if they are really any good at executing blocks, getting open on routes, handling pressure until they have actually had to block someone, or get open or handle pressure.

Until they do that against a good team - and overcome the inevitable bad breaks, injuries, and weird bounces - you really don't know if they are any good or not.

The Harlem Globetrotters "looked" pretty invincible. Would you bet on them if they played the worst team in the NBA????

Bring on the playoffs.

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And what if it just happens to really be a really good team, with a shite schedule? They play and beat who was on the schedule? Should they be precluded because their opponents turned out sucky, while they were actually a really good team?

Playoffs.

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In the current system that is not a good excuse
"we're a good team that plays bad teams" Then they need to schedule better teams, it's not like they don't have control over that. They don't beat but maybe 1 respectable team per season whereas LSU is currently leading the NCAA in the amount of ranked teams played. Maybe we can't say they aren't a good team because they play bad teams, but it surely is unjust for them to be able to go to the NCG with such an easy schedule when it's so much harder for LSU and any SEC team to do so.