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re: Very interesting story...first salvo against BCS?
Posted on 11/5/10 at 7:19 pm to tiger88
Posted on 11/5/10 at 7:19 pm to tiger88
quote:
Every sport in the world has a playoff on the field, except for college football.
False.
The world's most popular sport - soccer - doesn't have a playoff for most of it's domestic leagues.
The English Premier League, for example plays 38 games - each other team twice - and the team with the best record wins the trophy.
No playoff.
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Posted on 11/5/10 at 7:33 pm to Tiger Phil
I was thinking of the World Cup, which, best to my knowledge is a contest whose champion is determined among 16 teams on the field.
Posted on 11/5/10 at 7:41 pm to Tiger Phil
a majority of the members of the media have spouted the some rhetoric and catch phrases over and over about the villified 'bcs'.
here again we have the argument that 'every major sport has a playoff' which some posters quickly debunked.
let's understand's this fully. the NCAA Men's Basketball National Champion is NOT the best team over the course of the year. it is the best team over a SIX GAME STRETCH. it is a end of the season tournament champion that everyone has agreed with be the national champion.
the BCS is in fact a PLAYOFF. it is a two-team playoff, but a playoff none the less. granted, the two teams are chosen not on the basis of winning a conference championship to 'qualify', but instead based on a combination of subjective 'human' polls and more objective computer polls (although the conditions for the polls are subjectively chosen).
when it comes down to it, there is a huge lie that has been perpetrated on college football 'fans' that we are all screaming for a "playoff". no, there are a bunch of lemmings who regurgitate everything there here on sports talk radio and espn. a end of the season tournament of 8 or 16 teams isn't necessarily a better way to determine the best champion that a one game matchup of two teams. maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
course, there is also a valid argument that overall the sport is 'better' for having a more meaningful regular season.
here again we have the argument that 'every major sport has a playoff' which some posters quickly debunked.
let's understand's this fully. the NCAA Men's Basketball National Champion is NOT the best team over the course of the year. it is the best team over a SIX GAME STRETCH. it is a end of the season tournament champion that everyone has agreed with be the national champion.
the BCS is in fact a PLAYOFF. it is a two-team playoff, but a playoff none the less. granted, the two teams are chosen not on the basis of winning a conference championship to 'qualify', but instead based on a combination of subjective 'human' polls and more objective computer polls (although the conditions for the polls are subjectively chosen).
when it comes down to it, there is a huge lie that has been perpetrated on college football 'fans' that we are all screaming for a "playoff". no, there are a bunch of lemmings who regurgitate everything there here on sports talk radio and espn. a end of the season tournament of 8 or 16 teams isn't necessarily a better way to determine the best champion that a one game matchup of two teams. maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
course, there is also a valid argument that overall the sport is 'better' for having a more meaningful regular season.
Posted on 11/5/10 at 7:44 pm to Tiger Phil
quote:so they all play each other then? Twice? If you play everyone i guess it doesn't really matter does it?
The English Premier League, for example plays 38 games - each other team twice - and the team with the best record wins the trophy.
Posted on 11/5/10 at 7:53 pm to Tiger Phil
quote:
False.
The world's most popular sport - soccer - doesn't have a playoff for most of it's domestic leagues.
The English Premier League, for example plays 38 games - each other team twice - and the team with the best record wins the trophy.
No playoff.
That's basically one big playoff. They don't determind a champion by vote or computers do they?
Posted on 11/5/10 at 7:58 pm to Tiger Phil
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The English Premier League, for example plays 38 games - each other team twice - and the team with the best record wins the trophy.
Yeah, but that's 38 games in which EVERY team plays each other 2x. The champion is unquestionably determined on the pitch or whatever they call it. In college football, it's impossible for every team to play each other. How can we know for sure that the one loss team at #1 is better than the one loss team that is #5 or an undefeated non-BCS team unless they play each other? Hell, we were a Terrence Cody blocked field goal and a clock malfunction away from a TCU-Cincinnati national championship game last year. Both teams looked like crap and ended up getting exposed in their bowl games.
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