Comments on: Controversy in the Big 12 http://www.bankrollsports.com/blog/controversy-in-the-big-12/ The official sports betting and handicapping blog for Bankroll Sports Picks featuring free football picks and basketball selections. Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tom st peter http://www.bankrollsports.com/blog/controversy-in-the-big-12/comment-page-1/#comment-6654 tom st peter Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:44:20 +0000 http://www.bankrollsports.com/blog/?p=12#comment-6654 If it is TV the issue, who cares, and who is going to watch Texas a&m play wisconsin, or Texas play oregon, or missouri play indiana, or baylor play oregon state, or nebraska play minnisota etc. etc.. typical Tv viewers are attached to their local rivals that have been in place for years. the big 12 is somewhat young, being 15 years old, but look forward to watching missouri play Kansas, nebraska playing oklahoma. who gives a crap about missouri playing northwestern, or nebraska playing northwestern. your going to lose viewers. we like things the way they are. If it is TV the issue, who cares, and who is going to watch Texas a&m play wisconsin, or Texas play oregon, or missouri play indiana, or baylor play oregon state, or nebraska play minnisota etc. etc.. typical Tv viewers are attached to their local rivals that have been in place for years. the big 12 is somewhat young, being 15 years old, but look forward to watching missouri play Kansas, nebraska playing oklahoma. who gives a crap about missouri playing northwestern, or nebraska playing northwestern. your going to lose viewers. we like things the way they are.

]]> By: Bones http://www.bankrollsports.com/blog/controversy-in-the-big-12/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Bones Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:23:25 +0000 http://www.bankrollsports.com/blog/?p=12#comment-68 Texas did get snubbed this year. But a playoff will in no way fix the system, because it still lets human voters determine who goes. If you make an 8 team playoff, only 1 non bcs team would have been there, and only 5 conferences would have been represented. If you make a 16 team playoff, you have only 3 non bcs teams, and you have the ACC still sitting out with no team ranked in the top 16. Here is the answer. At the end of the regular season, take all 11 conference champions. Use the BCS to rank them 1-11. The top 8 teams play the four BCS bowl games, 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5. All other 6 win teams or better play in normal bowls just as usual. Texas could still play Ohio State, Georgia and Michigan State, etc. The BCS bowls are played on Jan 1 and Jan 2 and are the last 4 bowls. After they and all others have been played, the BCS computers rerank ALL teams in college football. Now you have number one play number two for the title game. This woule be much more interesting. If Florida, OU, USC and Utah all lost their BCS bowl game and Texas won, they could have still gone to the national title game against Alabama possibly. You could have had Utah and USC in the title game. Any number of things could happen this way, it would be much better. It's not a real playoff, the BCS is preserved, but the teams in the title game will have earned their spot there by winning a post-season game against a strong opponent. That and have the BCS rankings get rid of the coaches poll. Coaches watch exactly 12 teams play all year- the 12 teams they will face. They watch plenty of tape on them. They don't watch anyone else, who in the world thought they would be good pollsters? They never watch games! Take the AP poll instead. The media actually watch all the games. They know better how to rank them. Have this included with the computer polls the BCS currently uses and then you've got legitimate rankings. Texas did get snubbed this year. But a playoff will in no way fix the system, because it still lets human voters determine who goes. If you make an 8 team playoff, only 1 non bcs team would have been there, and only 5 conferences would have been represented. If you make a 16 team playoff, you have only 3 non bcs teams, and you have the ACC still sitting out with no team ranked in the top 16. Here is the answer.

At the end of the regular season, take all 11 conference champions. Use the BCS to rank them 1-11. The top 8 teams play the four BCS bowl games, 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5. All other 6 win teams or better play in normal bowls just as usual. Texas could still play Ohio State, Georgia and Michigan State, etc. The BCS bowls are played on Jan 1 and Jan 2 and are the last 4 bowls. After they and all others have been played, the BCS computers rerank ALL teams in college football. Now you have number one play number two for the title game.

This woule be much more interesting. If Florida, OU, USC and Utah all lost their BCS bowl game and Texas won, they could have still gone to the national title game against Alabama possibly. You could have had Utah and USC in the title game. Any number of things could happen this way, it would be much better. It’s not a real playoff, the BCS is preserved, but the teams in the title game will have earned their spot there by winning a post-season game against a strong opponent.

That and have the BCS rankings get rid of the coaches poll. Coaches watch exactly 12 teams play all year- the 12 teams they will face. They watch plenty of tape on them. They don’t watch anyone else, who in the world thought they would be good pollsters? They never watch games! Take the AP poll instead. The media actually watch all the games. They know better how to rank them. Have this included with the computer polls the BCS currently uses and then you’ve got legitimate rankings.

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