re: The BCS MANIPULATION

I would say you use the current bowls as your placement for the 8 teams. The winners go on to a semi final and from there final. Let the semi and final rotate between the 4 bowls. The problem is first get rid of the bowl alignments to specific conferences.

The real issue would be picking the best 8. If based on the BCS how many voters would manipulate the rankings to get teams in. I could only imagine if the SEC got 4 of those spots like they would be close this year.

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I'm all for a 4 or 8 team playoff, but they also need to dump the polls and computers and put together a selection committee

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Isn't a "selection committee" just another kinda of poll?

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sabanisarustedspoke

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well said , but the fact remains LSU must beat Bama twice and Bama just need win once to claim NC....patently unfair to LSU IMO , but I don't see anyone beating our team this year.

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I have a tough time understanding why any LSU fan would continue to bitch about Bama being in this game

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As a fan of college football, we will all be treated to the rematch.

As a player, coach, or supporter of LSU football, if you don't feel like you are being forced to push all of your chips in against someone with a free card, then you're just plain stupid.

The parameters were set before the season began. But, what ultimately has transpired is that two teams vying for the same prize, were put to unfair and unequal tasks. LSU must go 2-0 versus Bama, playing an extra game, risking injury, and one week less preparation time, while Bama can go 1-1.

Now, if your contention is that Bama is playing for a share of the title, then let's play ball. But, we both know that's not the case. All of your details about a fictional game taking place on Nov. 5th, are just that, fictional. For all intents and purposes, that game never took place.

If anything, all it did was reward the losing team. All previous rematches sharing this scenario have resulted in the losing team winning the rematch. The advantages on the field that were taken in the previous matchup are now null and void. They are being used as teaching tools for improvement. And every advantage not taken by the losing side, will be pounced on. I'm not even going to discuss the psychological advantages.

Everyone is quick to point out the rematches that occur in playoffs, but they are obviously talking about something foreign to this sport. When both sides know the parameters set forth, such as divisional play, conference championship games, and home and away, there exists an equal playing field.

What has occured here is an injustice to the LSU football family, and the only way to make it right, is to go out there and win again. I don't doubt these guys at all, I'm just disappointed to have this system let them down like this. Don't get me wrong, it's not as bad as what happened to Auburn in '04, but the desire of the almighty dollar has been placed before what is right and equitable for the blood, sweat, and tears these guys have had to endure this year.

Same thing going to happen next year .

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As a fan of college football, we will all be treated to the rematch.

As a player, coach, or supporter of LSU football, if you don't feel like you are being forced to push all of your chips in against someone with a free card, then you're just plain stupid.

The parameters were set before the season began. But, what ultimately has transpired is that two teams vying for the same prize, were put to unfair and unequal tasks. LSU must go 2-0 versus Bama, playing an extra game, risking injury, and one week less preparation time, while Bama can go 1-1.

Now, if your contention is that Bama is playing for a share of the title, then let's play ball. But, we both know that's not the case. All of your details about a fictional game taking place on Nov. 5th, are just that, fictional. For all intents and purposes, that game never took place.

If anything, all it did was reward the losing team. All previous rematches sharing this scenario have resulted in the losing team winning the rematch. The advantages on the field that were taken in the previous matchup are now null and void. They are being used as teaching tools for improvement. And every advantage not taken by the losing side, will be pounced on. I'm not even going to discuss the psychological advantages.

Everyone is quick to point out the rematches that occur in playoffs, but they are obviously talking about something foreign to this sport. When both sides know the parameters set forth, such as divisional play, conference championship games, and home and away, there exists an equal playing field.

What has occured here is an injustice to the LSU football family, and the only way to make it right, is to go out there and win again. I don't doubt these guys at all, I'm just disappointed to have this system let them down like this. Don't get me wrong, it's not as bad as what happened to Auburn in '04, but the desire of the almighty dollar has been placed before what is right and equitable for the blood, sweat, and tears these guys have had to endure this year.

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I feel like your opinion changed about 4 times in this little diatribe.

The BCS is a good system for LSU. With some suggested tweaks, the BCS would still be the best system.

1. Thecomputers must reveal their programs and must be proven predictors or they are dropped.

2.The critical change is all finalists must come from deserving conferences. This would be done by reviewing a conferences’ record against the teams that finished in the top 5, 10, 15, and 20 ranked colleges for a selected—2, 3, or 4—previous years. A simple computer program gives the results. Independent’s would be put in a theoretical conference pool. If it leaves during the 2, 3, or 4 year period, they must start over again in their new conference.


3.Only the coach’s poll would count, and a coach could not vote for his own team.

4.All conferences must have the same number conference members +1 or - 1.

5.All conferences must play at least 80% of games inside their conferences.

6.The regular season games are reduced to 11 games. (Of course if two teams have no bowl they want, they can opt out and play anyone that will play them.)


7.Conference playoffs are eliminated, and a fair across-the-board tiebreaker would be required for each conference.

8. The top four teams play in the traditional bowl games against one another.

9. The other teams play in the other traditional bowls.

10. The two out of the select four winners play in the BCS championship game.

11. The BCS winner could not appear with the AP winner in a co-championship ceremony.

Some traditions would be lost, but the BCS system has already started the destruction.

Boy, not asking for much there, huh?

You can't possibly create an ideal system for the number of programs involved.

The system used could determine a true national champion, just like it does for the same sport already.

There are multitudes of variations for all sports to determine champions on the field. Div I-AA has a 16 team playoff. Baseball and basketball a field of 64+.

It could easily be done, but would require many with control of monies to relinquish that power. There could even be way more monies generated, without playing extra games. The only problem is distribution would be affected.

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I have seen now in 2 straight days of Andy Staples and just now Brad edwards trying to blame or justify what they did.

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Brad Edwards was the worst. I have him on twitter. To see his spin was disgusting.

Then, after the fact, he admits Bama's resume was the worst resume in BCSNCG history.

Easy to do once you got what you wanted.

What a joke. We are slowly slipping back to the days where the "traditional powers" will once again run college football.

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Also according to your arguement Mich State got screwed when they had to play Wisc a team they already beat once but lost the 2nd time and now they do not go to a BCS game. What is the difference.

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No. Not the same at all.

Good lord you Gumps are hilarious. You really are.

Spin, spin spin

2011 MSU/Wisc = 2003 LSU/Uga