Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 281982)

The athletic side has no power or influence. None, except maybe at Kentucky or Florida.

Originally Posted by creekster (Post 281983)

A loss would abort the whole process, of course.

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy (Post 281986)

I think we could all agree that the major conferences need to adopt a more effective form of berth control.

Originally Posted by Flystripper (Post 281980)

USC might not win the Pac-10 this year....just an fyi. Oregon State holds the tie breaker and if you know anything about the beavers it is that they get better as the season progresses.

Originally Posted by Flystripper (Post 281975)

Jay I completely agree that the BCS is better than what college football had prior to its creation. Obviously not as good as a playoff but it is better.

People are coming around slowly but surely to a playoff. Today on Cowherd's show Gary Danielson (the guy who does color for many of the SEC games on CBS) said there needs to be a playoff that includes non-bcs teams. Hell even Mac "I Trade Sexual Favors for Coaches Poll Votes" Brown said there should be a playoff when he was on the radio last week. The tide is slowly turning.

Originally Posted by BlueK (Post 282377)

I liked the old way. The BCS is much worse.

Originally Posted by jay santos (Post 282379)

Seriously? Why?

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute (Post 282390)

Because despite what conference a team played in, it had a better chance to be voted the champion than it has to get into the BCS championship game.

Would BYU have won an NC in '84 with the current BCS system?

Originally Posted by jay santos (Post 282395)

That's a reasonable argument. Although, I think we analyzed this before and said BYU probably would have made the championship game that year according to rules of BCS.

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute (Post 282400)

I don't recall discussing that BYU probably would have made it, but I'm so anti-BCS that I may have just discounted it. :)

I'm just against anything that determines a championship in which the automatic qualifiers are only from a select few and every other team has to fight for one or two spots. In truth, the non-BCS teams are pretty much only fighting for one spot, as the other at large berths will undoubtedly go to BCS teams.