College Football

[Θάνατος]

Hey it looks like the week for more college football upsets.
USC lost to Oregon State,
Michigan beat Wisconsin,
Mississippi beat Florida,
Alabama beat Georgia
Houston beat East Carolina

All of those teams were in the top 25.

It looks like Oklahoma will be number 1 for this week, but they will be knocked off soon I am sure.

[Bobby]

I was predicting that OK would do well this year. I guess I'm a good guesser.

[Θάνατος]

Yeah that is true but The Big 12 is a tough conference. 9 ranked teams lost this week.

[Bobby]

I would have to agree. I think it's the toughest conference this year. I'm suprised.

[Zephyr]

Go Oregon State!

We rawk = ]]]

[Bobby]

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No way Steph.

[Zephyr]

USC was ranked #1,
And we beat them.
So... :P

[Bobby]

Of course you won, look at those teeth.

[Zephyr]

The bigger to bite you with my dear ;)

[Underground_Network]

Some people are saying this is all the more reason for a playoff. I used to despise even the though of a playoff system, but a 32-team playoff isn't a bad idea, they do variations of that at DIII, DII, and DI-AA (now called 'FCS'), and it's a pretty cool system. I like the DIII system best, though of course it would have to be altered for DI-A (aka FBS). In DIII there are 22 automatic bids (Regular season conference champs or conference championship winners), then 10 at-large bids. 3 automatically got to the equivalent of 'non-BCS' schools, and then 7 go to whoever the DIII 'committee' deems qualified to be in the playoffs, usually these 7 teams come from 'major' conferences. Of course, in FBS, there aren't enough conferences for 22 automatic bids, but I'm sure some variation of that system could be put into place.

[Θάνατος]

Some people are saying this is all the more reason for a playoff. I used to despise even the though of a playoff system, but a 32-team playoff isn't a bad idea, they do variations of that at DIII, DII, and DI-AA (now called 'FCS'), and it's a pretty cool system. I like the DIII system best, though of course it would have to be altered for DI-A (aka FBS). In DIII there are 22 automatic bids (Regular season conference champs or conference championship winners), then 10 at-large bids. 3 automatically got to the equivalent of 'non-BCS' schools, and then 7 go to whoever the DIII 'committee' deems qualified to be in the playoffs, usually these 7 teams come from 'major' conferences. Of course, in FBS, there aren't enough conferences for 22 automatic bids, but I'm sure some variation of that system could be put into place.


Yeah good idea. When Boise State was in 1AA they went to the playoffs almost every year. Now we have to hope that we get invited to a bowl game now. I don't think there will be a playoff in FCS because too many conferences like the SEC would lose money. The big conferences send as many as 8 teams to bowl and would lose lots of money since the money is split by all the teams in the conference. That is why it is the the big conferences fight the play off system.

[CaptainObvious]

A playoff would be great. Just expand the rankings to 32 teams and make those teams the playoff teams, seeded by rank.

[Θάνατος]

A playoff would be great. Just expand the rankings to 32 teams and make those teams the playoff teams, seeded by rank.

The problem with using rankings is that a lot of the times the ranking are so biased towards teams from the bigger conferences. Not only that there is an East coast bias that leave many West coast out of the rankings. Then what ranking do you use the coaches Poll or the media Poll?

[Underground_Network]

That's why they should do it like DIII. This is what I would like to see: 11 automatic bids given to the winner of each conference (either regular season champs or conference championship winners, depending upon the conference). Another 6 bids to the second place/other division winner for BCS conference teams (ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, PAC-10, SEC). 5 bids given to non-BCS schools (C-USA, MAC, MWC, Sun Belt, WAC, Independents) and 10 bids given to all other 'qualifying' schools. Its a system that treats everyone fairly and gives every deserving team a shot at the title. The seeding could be decided by a committee, similar to that of the committee that decides the seeding for the National Tournament in college basketball.

[Θάνατος]

I don't know I think every conference should have one representative then use a selection committee to pick the rest like you said they do for basketball.