We're number two!
We're number two!
We're number two!
Watching the BCS title game (for the first half) reminded me of my perception of College Football in general and specifically the BCS National Championship. It's a joke. It's a joke that isn't even very funny.
I mean, as Gordon Monson points out in today's trib, if the Sugar Bowl champion were decided the same way the national champion is, you know with votes and computers then Alabma would have won easily, everyone thought they were head and shoulders better than Utah. Instead they played a game, and we know how that turned out.
Do I think the Utes could have beaten Florida? Who knows, and who cares? That's not the point. Asking that is like crowning the national champion by some arbitrary subjective process.
Anyway, best season in Utah (I mean the state. The '84 cougars? gimme a break) college football history. It's funny to me that it came with Kyle Wittingham as the coach. . . maybe I'm wrong about him.
We're number two!
Watching the BCS title game (for the first half) reminded me of my perception of College Football in general and specifically the BCS National Championship. It's a joke. It's a joke that isn't even very funny.
I mean, as Gordon Monson points out in today's trib, if the Sugar Bowl champion were decided the same way the national champion is, you know with votes and computers then Alabma would have won easily, everyone thought they were head and shoulders better than Utah. Instead they played a game, and we know how that turned out.
Do I think the Utes could have beaten Florida? Who knows, and who cares? That's not the point. Asking that is like crowning the national champion by some arbitrary subjective process.
Anyway, best season in Utah (I mean the state. The '84 cougars? gimme a break) college football history. It's funny to me that it came with Kyle Wittingham as the coach. . . maybe I'm wrong about him.
posted by b r christensen at 1/09/2009 09:39:00 AM
3 Comments:
I, for one, am glad we finally know who the #1 team in the country is.
What a relief!
Lets see, all Utah did was beat everyone they played. But they didn't play in a strong conference. Well not all 119 Division 1 teams did either, and not one of them went undefeated. And that is with the likes of Michigan, Ohio State, and others who were able to play an unbalanced home schedule, some of which only traveled 4 times this year. But we can go on an on, it won't change a thing, and never will. Because the BCS applies by the "Golden Rule". Those with the Gold make all of the rules.
Steve I think you're right for the foreseeable future, I think if College Football made a change to create more parity it would be good for the NCAA as a whole, but it would probably take an amount of revenue away from six or seven specific teams and for sure would take money away from the Big East and ACC.
As for the strength of schedule argument, it's bs. In the rankings for strength of schedule Utah was #56, which is better than Alabama, and USC by the way, but let's compare Florida and Utah against top 25 (in the end of the season AP poll) teams:
Utah beat No. 6 Alabama, No. 7 TCU, No. 18 Oregon St. and No. 25 BYU.
Florida also beat No. 6Alabama, as well as No. 5 Oklahoma, No. 13 Georgia, No. 21 Florida St. and lost to No. 14 Mississippi.
So Utah went 4-0 against the top 25 with two wins over top 10 teams. Florida went 3-1 and beat two top 10 teams. Utah beat the numbers 6 and 7 in the country, Florida beat 5 and 6, but LOST to number 14.
OK, now for the conference argument, no way is the MWC can hold its own among the powerhouse conferences in the country right? In the top 25 at the end of the year the SEC had 4 teams. The Big 12 had 4 teams. The Big 10 had 3, the PAC-10 had 3, the ACC had 3, and the MWC had 3. The Big East, by the way, had 1.
The SEC had a 36% win percentage against top 25 teams. The PAC 10 had 32%. The MWC had 27%. Interestingly the best conference against top 25 teams; the ACC with a whopping 57% win percentage. The MWC is not the best, but this year it was up there with them.
All this proves is that there's no way to work this all out through bias. Just play some damn games.
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