Superaggie79
01-09-2007, 12:29 AM
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It was yet another surprise tonight as the University of Florida Gators defeated Troy Smith and the Ohio State University in the BCS Championship in Arizona. But the biggest question is, did the BCS work? It was a blowout win 41-14 far from the marquee matchups that the BCS was intended to create. Florida definitely came to play but was that because tOSU had 51 days between games? That's almost 2 months. That's almost half of an entire summer break between spring practices and a new season. Michigan laid an egg in the Rose Bowl too so maybe it did have something to do with it. Maybe the SEC was just so much better than every other conference and the Big 10 was so top heavy that Florida and their counterparts made eachother look less than stellar and Ohio State essentially won one game.
Well let's look at how these conferences fared in head to head matches.
Fla 41 tOSU 14
Wisc 17 Arkie 14
PSU 20 Tenn 10
The Big 10 took 2 of the 3 in these games. So how did the whole conferences do? The Big 10 finished only 2-5 with two BCS losses while the SEC finished 6-3 with two BCS wins. So maybe the SEC is the superior conference after all. But what is the national championship about after all? Is it the best team from start to finish? Or is it all about getting to that final game and winning it? Ohio State won 2 games against supposed #2 teams in the regular season. Florida on the other hand lost against a #11 Auburn by 10, struggled to beat Vandy, and then continued to struggle against South Carolina and Florida State. Essentially the only reason they were even in this game was because USC lost in a rivalry game after already losing to an unranked Oregon State team.
To me none of this makes sense. You had two teams from two great conferences playing against eachother but there was no clear cut way of them getting there. There is no way of knowing how USC would've played Florida and there's no way of knowing how Boise State, who at the end of the year is the only remaining unbeaten, would've played either. The system leaves to many what if's. It's simple, follow the formula that every other organized sport in the free world uses and have a playoff. That's the only way this is ever going to be fixed.
It was yet another surprise tonight as the University of Florida Gators defeated Troy Smith and the Ohio State University in the BCS Championship in Arizona. But the biggest question is, did the BCS work? It was a blowout win 41-14 far from the marquee matchups that the BCS was intended to create. Florida definitely came to play but was that because tOSU had 51 days between games? That's almost 2 months. That's almost half of an entire summer break between spring practices and a new season. Michigan laid an egg in the Rose Bowl too so maybe it did have something to do with it. Maybe the SEC was just so much better than every other conference and the Big 10 was so top heavy that Florida and their counterparts made eachother look less than stellar and Ohio State essentially won one game.
Well let's look at how these conferences fared in head to head matches.
Fla 41 tOSU 14
Wisc 17 Arkie 14
PSU 20 Tenn 10
The Big 10 took 2 of the 3 in these games. So how did the whole conferences do? The Big 10 finished only 2-5 with two BCS losses while the SEC finished 6-3 with two BCS wins. So maybe the SEC is the superior conference after all. But what is the national championship about after all? Is it the best team from start to finish? Or is it all about getting to that final game and winning it? Ohio State won 2 games against supposed #2 teams in the regular season. Florida on the other hand lost against a #11 Auburn by 10, struggled to beat Vandy, and then continued to struggle against South Carolina and Florida State. Essentially the only reason they were even in this game was because USC lost in a rivalry game after already losing to an unranked Oregon State team.
To me none of this makes sense. You had two teams from two great conferences playing against eachother but there was no clear cut way of them getting there. There is no way of knowing how USC would've played Florida and there's no way of knowing how Boise State, who at the end of the year is the only remaining unbeaten, would've played either. The system leaves to many what if's. It's simple, follow the formula that every other organized sport in the free world uses and have a playoff. That's the only way this is ever going to be fixed.