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re: BCS works __% of the time? 27%
Posted on 7/17/09 at 11:12 am to lsumatt
Posted on 7/17/09 at 11:12 am to lsumatt
quote:Add that to the fact that not every team is in a conference, and you've got virtually no good argument for requiring a team to win its conference to get into the BCSCG. Leaving this rule out is one good thing the BCS has done.
There is another issue with the "you must win your own conference" debate. The BCS can't tell the conferences how to crown a champion. If you make that a rule, then the SEC/Big12, etc. just change their rules to make it more BCS friendly. Hell, The Big12 might still have a "championship game" and then say "our official champion is the team with the highest BCS rating"
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Posted on 7/17/09 at 11:17 am to xiv
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Leaving this rule out is one good thing the BCS has done.
And especially with the current setup (2/3 being controlled by voters) it is very, very difficult for a conference-loser to make it. They would have to be awesome to overcome that.
Even in 2003, the voters put OU as low as ethically possible (below all the 1-loss teams) and their SOS, quality wins, etc. were so good, they finished above USC and LSU
Posted on 7/17/09 at 11:25 am to xiv
One of the problems I have with these SoS rankings is the way they come about. Teams are normally losely linked to every other team by 3-4 games ( I actually wrote a graph application to plot it out ). Football shows us time and again that just because Team A beat Team B and Team B beats Team C, it does not mean that Team A will beat Team C. Its a flawed system, but alas, what can you do?
The other problem I have with the SoS components is when you get to a team that is a 'significantly' lower ranked team than another. For instanct, LSU should walk all over Washington to start the season, but is Washington better than say, Syracuse? Honestly, do the differences between those teams matter? In most SoS formuals, every team is ranked and things could theorhetically come down to the 'difference' in playing a Washington or a Syracuse team. I honestly would like to see a team's opponents broken down into teirs: elite, good, average, poor, very poor. Whatever. Auburn may not have gotten screwed in 2004 if it was done this way.
The other problem I have with the SoS components is when you get to a team that is a 'significantly' lower ranked team than another. For instanct, LSU should walk all over Washington to start the season, but is Washington better than say, Syracuse? Honestly, do the differences between those teams matter? In most SoS formuals, every team is ranked and things could theorhetically come down to the 'difference' in playing a Washington or a Syracuse team. I honestly would like to see a team's opponents broken down into teirs: elite, good, average, poor, very poor. Whatever. Auburn may not have gotten screwed in 2004 if it was done this way.
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