Monday, January 2, 2012

Thanks BCS for screwing up a good thing.

LSU website And the Valley Shook took a few shots at the BCS that are right on the money. I thought it would be appropriate to post it today as today used to be my holy day of the year: Watch the minor bowls in the morning, the Rose and Fiesta in the afternoon, then the Orange and Sugar at night. Now they are completely screwed up. We have to watch each major bowl on a different night- as if most of us can take off three or four nights in a row during the week to watch football games. Then the match-ups suck: Virginia Tech v. Meechigan? Please. Arkansas would've sold the place out but noooooo.... we have a rule that prohibits the best teams from the same conference from being in the BCS if there are too many of them. Think of it as the BCS affirmative action plan, something liberals should love. Anyway, I digress. Here AVS goes:

"Conference titles used to matter. Teams used to schedule tough cross-regional games with frequency. Now, thanks to the BCS, they don't. The BCS claims to make the regular season more meaningful, but under the BCS, college football's regular season has become less meaningful. The quality of out of conference schedules have steadily declined under the BCS as teams have learned it is more important to not lose than to go out and prove your worth. The BCS has consistently rewarded teams, as it has this year, for avoiding tough games....

The biggest loser of the BCS era has arguably been the Orange Bowl, which has a litany of terrible games, thanks to its ACC tie-in. Hey, at least this game isn't Louisville v. Wake Forest again. But it's not just the matchups, it's the schedule. January 1 used to be my favorite holiday. You'd sit in front of the TV all day with your family and watch a cornucopia of college football. I'm okay with moving the title game to different day, but each BCS game? By stretching out the schedule like that, the juice has gone out of the non-title BCS games. Worse yet, it has ruined January 1st to such a point that hockey has moved in on college football's turf, and they schedule their showcase event on New Year's Day. That's right, the BCS is so stupid that it allowed college football to be outsmarted by the NHL. Let that sink in.

BCS rules prevent more than two schools from a conference going to the BCS bowls, which tied the Sugar Bowl's hands. The Sugar Bowl passed over teams ranked 6 through 9 to take a #11 vs. #13 matchup. By rule, the Sugar Bowl couldn't take Arkansas or South Carolina (or Georgia). So the Sugar Bowl reached out and picked Michigan, who didn't even make the Big Ten title game. Michigan St finished ahead of Michigan in the Big Ten and beat them head to head, and wasn't even allowed to be considered for the bowl by rule. Think about that, Michigan St was punished for having a BETTER SEASON than Michigan. Michigan demonstrated, on the field, that they were the inferior team to Michigan St, and because they missed the title game of their conference, the BCS rewarded them. The regular season, once again, didn't matter. More people would be making a stink about this if it, but this was, by far, the less objectionable selection.
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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

GO GAMECOCKS!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Thanks KF !
I agree - the BCS sucks .
They have managed to thoroughly screw up
American college football.

Since Missouri is now in the SEC ??? , the goofy NFL
rules make more sense

Anonymous said...

Follow the money. It's all about the bookies.

meople said...

Nice article KF. The same things that are pointed out about UM and MSU can also be said about Alabama getting rewarded for not making conference title game... But then again you could let %75 of the SEC in the bcs games and it would filter more money to the school ie. Conference and then there would be no chance of anyone keeping up. Question: when was the last time two teams from the same conference played in the national title game?

Anonymous said...

You can also blame ESPN for the games being spread out over so many nights. They have contracts to carry almost all the bowls and are contractually obligated not to broadcast another game on any of its networks while the Rose Bowl is on. From what I have read, Va. Tech and Clemson will lose a great deal of money by going to their bowls. Eventually, I look for teamms to reject bowl bids because fo the money they will lose by accepting the bid.

Anonymous said...

How can you 'lose money' going to a bowl? Sure, they can reject bowl bids and sit at home in front of the wide screen, sorta like Ole Miss does (but for other reasons).

Anonymous said...

@2:51
Losing money on a bowl game is not uncommon.
http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20120103/OPINION01/201030317/Bowl-games-costly-universities?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp

Anonymous said...

Many of the bowls require the schools to purchase a large number of tickets. In theory, the schools resell the tickets to their fans. However, if they fail to do so, they can lose money. I suspect that USM lost money on their bowl trip.

bill said...

9:20, sounds like a trick question since there wasn't an official national title game prior to the BCS. The conference tie ins to bowl games made it next to impossible for teams from the same conference to even play in the Jan. 1 games, never mind getting the top two teams into the same bowl. It hasn't happened since the BCS started. In football, that is. Kansas beat Oklahoma in 1988 for the NCAA championship in basketball.


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