11-10-2008, 06:10 PM | #1 |
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BCS is better than the old regime, that's for sure
In 2004 the Utes would never have played in a major bowl under the old system. That's for sure. The old system was more exclusionary than the current one, and asked for a debacle like BYU playing 6-5 Michigan for the nc in the Holiday Bowl (the old upstart Holiday Bowl).
I'm actually not that much against the BCS until something more practical is executed. It's not the worst of all worlds.
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11-10-2008, 06:18 PM | #2 |
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BYu didnt play Michigan for the national championship. Michigan wasn't in contention for the national championship. BYu was voted champ by the AP because it won its final game.
No different from previous national champions.......how often, if ever did the AP 1 and 2 play each other in bowl games for the national championship? If you were the #1 team going into your bowl game and you won, you were going to win the national championship. What exactly was the debacle?
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To Philadelphia which is another team that didn't deserve to be there because of history.
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I loathe the BCS because it denies almost half the participants from ever getting a shot based only on conference affiliation.
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BYU sucks.
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It was still extremely rare for any of the then "non-BCS" schools to move up in the polls to #1 or #2....which is where they needed to be to win a NC. And the pre-season polls were the same biased junk....all the usual schools picked to win it all before the season began. The old bowl system was not a utopia wherein all teams had a fair shot. The only bowls that mattered were the ones that hosted the #1 and #2 teams (generally) because one of those 2 bowls was going to produce the winner, period.
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