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Old 09-22-2008, 04:24 AM   #11
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Forget the BCS formula. The BCS has been so watered down over the years that it now, effectively, comes down to only one input: the human voters. The voters determine the two teams in the title game, and the voters are not going to put a non-BCS team in the game, because the voters are coaches and it's not in the best interest of most of the coaches for that to happen. If you guys head in to "championship Saturday" in number two of the BCS, you guys will have a bye (you don't play a conference championship, I think), and somehow they'll find a way to knock you down to 3 or lower after the dust settles Saturday evening. It ain't fair, but it is what it is.
I'm not kidding. Some of us believe that there is a HAND more powerful than any voter.

As national champs once, so shall we be again one day.
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Old 09-22-2008, 04:35 AM   #12
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I'm not kidding. Some of us believe that there is a HAND more powerful than any voter.
Well, you and Jewel can sing about hands all you want, but so long as this formula is in place there ain't going to be no potential giant-slayer in the national title game. Fiesta Bowl, sure. Rose Bowl, mayyybe. Title game? no way in hell. That's a no-win for everybody involved.
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all the better. put two 2-loss teams in the NC game, and undefeated BYU in a BCS game.

That's why it's not a NC. It's a MNC. = mythical national championship.

There is no such thing as a NC in college football.
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Old 09-22-2008, 04:54 AM   #14
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There is no such thing as a NC in college football.
So why post this?

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That's why it's not a NC. It's a MNC. = mythical national championship.
That's what we've been trying to say for the last 24 years!
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all the better. put two 2-loss teams in the NC game, and undefeated BYU in a BCS game.
See, now that's what I was thinking. This is the way better approach. You guys could pick up the AP title, historically the one that "counts," and simultaneously be the real BCS "busters," as in, the ones that take down the whole system.
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