re: Give me the BCS back

Said it a million times. Conferences send a single team to be considered. Never ever two teams from the same conf. with a four team playoff.

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Well, back then the 100+ voters and 5 computers let in Oklahoma instead of USC. Can you name a similar screwup by today’s committee?

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I think Oklahoma was better than USC that year so I agree with their decision. And they played the Tigers right, 21-14. It's not like LSU blew them out leaving room to debate whether or not they even deserved to be there.

The UCF's of the world should be doing everything they can to schedule one game a year with the likes of Michigan, Texas, Notre Dame type teams for big game exposure. If they lose then make it up in the year and go to second tier bowl like they likely would have anyway. If they win and then win out they then would have a legitimate shot in a year like this one where two P5 conference champs have 1 loss.

So you would rather an undefeated Clemson stay at home and have that controversy like 2003? Cool story bro.

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I don’t think that’s how it worked


How did it work?

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The BCS had LSU #2 going in and awarded us the BCS Championship. The AP awarded their championship to USC. If not for the BCS, USC would have been the national champs and LSU #2. If the BCS had used the later formula instead of duplicate computers and formulas, the match up would have been USC vs LSU and there would be zero controversy.

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Under the BCS an undefeated team would have been left out. Probably the defending Champs.

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This year is the perfect example of why a 4 team playoff works.
Regular season is not watered down.
An 8 team playoff would have been full of first round blow outs.
And most importantly - no undefeated teams left out.

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Miami of Ohio finished in the top 10 of the 2003 season ap poll?!?

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They had a pretty good QB that year.

The BCS was complete garbage. Clemson would be left out this year under that 'system'.

It also robbed us of an LSU vs USC epic matchup in 2003. I know everyone here hates the 2003 split, but it helped get us the 4 team playoff.

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How did it work?

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The powers in charge of the BCS and the CFP are reluctant to acknowledge that the regular season, including the conference championship games is part of the tournament itself. A sort of time limited multi elimination game of musical chairs. Because of this and the wierdness of this tournament, they fail to adopt some simple eligibility rules that would make the sport more like every other sport we know of. That is you can't be eligible for the playoff unless your conference champion goes to the playoff. Yes a great team may be excluded, but it's equivalent to losing in the first round: you don't advance.

In 2003, because margin of victory was a key component and their SOS (OK was always good playing this game), OK was running away with #1. Because of the way the season played out, they were virtually guaranteed a spot in the championship game before their conference CG. Then they had their asses handed to them in a real bad loss. The human polls tried to punish them, but they couldn't legitimately place them lower than 3 and this guaranteed their spot.

USC was #1 in both polls and LSU #2. In BCS terms we were #2, but it was a virtual tie. If the Boise State/Hawaii game result was reversed, then USC would have been #2. If the BSC had adopted the rule I suggest above, then the championship game would have been between USC and us and the split championship wouldn't have happened.

The split happened because the AP had no obligation to respect the BCS stupidity. They voted USC #1 and absolutely nothing happened to change that opinion.