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The Right Way To Do A Plus One Playoff
Everyone knows the BCS bigwigs are getting together and discussing the future of the BCS. Several topics will be on the table, such as bowl selection, automatic qualifiers and the plus one model. A plus one would be a good start, but 8 teams would be ideal. Still, if a plus one playoff is possible, we must jump on it. But we have to do it right. This is the right way to implement a plus one playoff model.
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And This Is Why College Football Is Not As Popular As It Can Be
Well I started to watch last night’s BCS title game. But I stopped. I found The Bachelor to be far more entertaining than the “big boy” football I was being subjected to. Although based on the Twitter explosion after the game it wasn’t hard to know who won, or what the implications were. There was quite a vocal minority of people online hoping for a “split championship” to happen. For those who may not know, a split championship is when one team wins the USA Today poll and a different team wins the AP poll. Well, didn’t happen, but this just shows a huge, gaping flaw of college football that hampers it from being as popular and loved as it could be.
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The Reason College Football Has No Playoff
The BCS is a terrible system of determining a champion. Under their logic, Germany won WWII. Just look at the strength of their opponents and all of those quality wins, several on the road. The BCS also tells us Virginia Tech is better than Clemson, even though they played two times, once at Virginia Tech, once at a neutral site, and Clemson whipped them both times. You see, the BCS is not a way of determining if one team is better than another. Clemson is a perfect example. Clearly a better team than Virginia Tech. BCS says not so. So why do we have it?
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Bones’s Bowl Preview: National Championship Edition
Well, we’ve sifted through 34 bowls, some good and some bad. We’ve arrived at the lone game in this crazy postseason that matters: The BCS National Title Game. Let’s analyze, shall we?
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An Infographic to Explain the BCS
Someone emailed me a link to an infographic they created that helps to explain what is wrong with the BCS. If you check out the contact form I expressly ask people not to do this, and by and large it has stopped. I figured it serves to make sure only serious people with something seriously good should bother emailing me. Well, I liked what they put together and so I am reposting it here with permission.
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