YAFT: USC v Oregon

[zerocool84]

Oregon's offense is just crazy... wow. How do they keep getting leapfrogged for #1? Stupid BCS...

#1 reason why I don't religiously follow college ball. BCS is the most ridiculous thing ever to happen to sports.

 

[Nik]

Oregon's offense is just crazy... wow. How do they keep getting leapfrogged for #1? Stupid BCS...

It's an Oregon tradition to give up. Just like the Jailblazers who do well and think they can slack off and end up fucking it up for themselves by doing so.

 

[Fingolfin269]

#1 reason why I don't religiously follow college ball. BCS is the most ridiculous thing ever to happen to sports.

Having voters decide who is the best is the most ridiculous thing ever to happen to sports.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Oregon's offense is just crazy... wow. How do they keep getting leapfrogged for #1? Stupid BCS...

Oh and btw, two reasons... their strength of schedule is awful and Auburn's offense is pretty damn amazing as well.

 

[Gibsons]

Oh and btw, two reasons... their strength of schedule is awful and Auburn's offense is pretty damn amazing as well.

Their SOS is pretty bad, but it will get a little better with 'zona and Ostate coming up.

Doesn't matter a whole lot though, if they win out, they're in the mnc, if they lose a game they're not.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Their SOS is pretty bad, but it will get a little better with 'zona and Ostate coming up.

Doesn't matter a whole lot though, if they win out, they're in the mnc, if they lose a game they're not.

Yep. Just responding to the 'why'. The biggest puzzle to me is why the AP voters would leapfrog Oregon over BSU but leave Auburn behind BSU.

Oh and 'pretty bad' actually equates into 'one of the worst'.

 

[angminas]

Having voters decide who is the best is the most ridiculous thing ever to happen to sports.

It may be imperfect, but it's not ridiculous. Certainly not as part of the larger picture. College football is still at least partially college football. People still have classes to go to and homework to do, and sometimes jobs to hold down and bills to pay, since they don't make hundreds of k a year.

They're still younger athletes who don't need to be playing a jillion games a season. With all the conferences and divisions, pro-style playoffs would take forever and batter kids into pieces. Can't do a 64-team invitational, because you'd still have to win six highly competitive games to be the clear-cut national champion, shredding our finest young players before their time. Cut the teams in half and you only save one game for the championship team and now, with only 32 teams from the entire nation, you're, again, deep into the realm of voting to decide who even gets a chance.

And this is just the beginning of all the challenges associated with picking a college football national champion. There's a reason people debate this stuff...nobody has a perfect solution. I could think of a very long list of sports issues which are far more ridiculous than voting for a champion.

 

[Fingolfin269]

You mean like the playoffs they have at every other level of football? Those kids seem to handle it just fine. Let's not fool ourselves here. The reason there is no playoff has nothing at all to do with the players but everything to do with the $$$$.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

It may be imperfect, but it's not ridiculous. Certainly not as part of the larger picture. College football is still at least partially college football. People still have classes to go to and homework to do, and sometimes jobs to hold down and bills to pay, since they don't make hundreds of k a year.

They're still younger athletes who don't need to be playing a jillion games a season. With all the conferences and divisions, pro-style playoffs would take forever and batter kids into pieces. Can't do a 64-team invitational, because you'd still have to win six highly competitive games to be the clear-cut national champion, shredding our finest young players before their time. Cut the teams in half and you only save one game for the championship team and now, with only 32 teams from the entire nation, you're, again, deep into the realm of voting to decide who even gets a chance.

And this is just the beginning of all the challenges associated with picking a college football national champion. There's a reason people debate this stuff...nobody has a perfect solution. I could think of a very long list of sports issues which are far more ridiculous than voting for a champion.

no, its ridiculous.
make divisions, play everyone in the division, put the division winners in a playoff. EVERY OTHER FUCKING SPORT DOES THIS - INCLUDING OTHER LEVELS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL. its not difficult or confusing.

 

[Gibsons]

no, its ridiculous.
make divisions, play everyone in the division, put the division winners in a playoff. EVERY OTHER FUCKING SPORT DOES THIS - INCLUDING OTHER LEVELS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL. its not difficult or confusing.

This. And a lot of the lower level kids aren't even on scholarship.

Anyway, they increased the number of games teams can play a few years ago, so any pretense they have about worrying about total number of games is hypocrisy.