HawkPrdatr40
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LMAO!!!
8-4 UCONN gets BCS bid
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Hawkfromnorwalk
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Big East is unequivocally the most competitive league in the NCAA...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Hawkfan3318
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And this team lost to Michigan............The Big East is awful. They are going to get smashed in the Fiesta bowl vs Oklahoma/Nebraska. (Assuming that is what bowl they are going to.)
iowamike21
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This is just one more example of the ludicrous nature of the BCS. WHY, WHY isn't there a provision that to earn a league's BCS berth, you MUST have at least a 10-2 record? And WHY limit a conference to only two BCS teams? IF the idea is to match the best teams, then neither of these provisions is logical. The folks who put the BCS together once again have their mini-brains on display.
Michigan State, 11-1, shuffles off to a lesser bowl because it happens to be in the Big Ten with Ohio State and Wisconsin, while 8-4 UConn goes to a BCS game because it happens to be in a conference of nobodies?!
Sure. The BCS works...just like communism. Ask the Spartans...
Michigan State, 11-1, shuffles off to a lesser bowl because it happens to be in the Big Ten with Ohio State and Wisconsin, while 8-4 UConn goes to a BCS game because it happens to be in a conference of nobodies?!
Sure. The BCS works...just like communism. Ask the Spartans...
ArizonaHawkeye88
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Another LAMO situation is Kentucky. They are bowl eligible while being 2 - 6 in conference and 6 - 6 overall.
silvanthalas
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Because they'd probably just end up taking a bunch of SEC teams.
hawkfan2679
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This is a shame. Temple went 8-4 (just like UConn), beat UConn (30-16), and isn't going anywhere for the bowl season...UConn is going to the BCS.
And to the ESPN crew who keeps bringing up that UConn has only been an FBS school for about 10 years, great story, blah, blah, blah...they are back-dooring their way into the BCS by winning what might be the least worthy conference of the BCS era. Somebody had to win...
There should be an amendment to the BCS that even if you win your conference you do not automatically qualify for a BCS bowl. They should also include you must be ranked inside the top 15 of the last BCS poll or your conference forfeits its BCS game and they select from an at large pool of teams within the top 15 of the BCS.
hawkfan2679
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I'd also like to point out that the Sagarin ratings are as follows:
60. Iowa State
61. UConn
I agree with any amendment that keeps teams like this from getting into what are supposed to be the premiere bowls of the season.
60. Iowa State
61. UConn
I agree with any amendment that keeps teams like this from getting into what are supposed to be the premiere bowls of the season.
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VintageHawkeye
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Just imagine how Big Game Bob and the Sooners feel. 
HawkeyeMike23
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This has nothing to do with the BCS. UConn would still have went to a major bowl prior to the BCS. And requiring teams to have a 10-2 record would never happen, look at the SEC, if So Car had pulled the upset of Auburn in the title, they wouldn't be allowed in under that rule.
hawkfarmer
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ACC v. Big East championship game. winner gets BCS. Only 1 auto between the 2 conferences.
Kind of like Iowa in 2006.
WhitUp
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What are you talking about UConn wouldn't of ever gone to a major bowl prior to the BCS...No one would chose UConn unless they were required. And if S.Carolina won the SEC East and then won the SEC championship nobody would have a problem with that. They'd earned it. Everybody has been knocking Boise and TCU's schedule and UCOnn's is worse. Only difference is Boise and TCU needed to go undefeated UConn had to go 8-4. It's a joke.
HawkeyeMike23
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The major bowls (Orange, Rose, Fiesta, Sugar) all had conference tie ins before the BCS came around. The Big East conference winner UConn would still end up in a major bowl without the BCS. Yeah, South Carolina would have earned it because they played in a terrible division and won one fluke game. Requiring a certain number of wins for a conference champion is just a dumb idea.
1977Hawkeye
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This is exactly why the BCS no longer deserves an at-large bid.
If I had my way, I would rather just see all of the top-rated teams in BCS bowls, but I know that will never happen due to conference tie-ins, $$$, etc.
I'd be ok with what another poster said about adding a requirement for you to be Top-15 in the BCS. An 8-4 team from a weak conference being in the BCS is a joke.
If I had my way, I would rather just see all of the top-rated teams in BCS bowls, but I know that will never happen due to conference tie-ins, $$$, etc.
I'd be ok with what another poster said about adding a requirement for you to be Top-15 in the BCS. An 8-4 team from a weak conference being in the BCS is a joke.
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WhitUp
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Bowl Coalition/BCS started in 92, big east became an official football conference in 91 and didn't play a full conference schedule or name a big east football champion until 93. So they didn't even exist so I'm not sure how you think they had a bowl tie in. The Big East doesn't even have a bowl tie-in now, just a bcs tie in. Fiesta bowl never had a tie in to a conf champion. Big 8 was orange, SWC was cotton, pac/big10 rose, sugar SEC and the ACC 87-91 had was citrus bowl. ACC didn't have one of those bowls so not sure how you think the big east would have even if they existed.
SEC East is better then the big 12 North and both ACC divisions, so yeah if they won it and beat the best team in the country then yeah they'd of earned it. Not like the joke of a champion that is UCONN. Temple beat UConn and is 8-4 and didn't even go to a bowl game. SC beat Bama and Florida, lost to Arkansas and Auburn twice. If they'd won and been in BCS they'd have to apologize to no one.
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HawkeyeMike23
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The BCS and the Bowl Coalition are not the same thing. Every Big East champ played in what would now be a BCS bowl from '91 on, this includes such classic teams as the 9-4 '97 Syracuse team which played in the Fiesta Bowl.
From the ever reliable wikipedia: The Bowl Coalition consisted of five conferences—the SEC, Big 8, SWC, ACC and Big East--independent Notre Dame, and six bowl games—the Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Gator and John Hancock bowls.
So from the time the Big East was created its champion has played in a major bowl game. If you're implying that we should go back to the way things were before that then you need to move on because college football is so much different now than it was in the 80's.
And the SEC East is garbage this year. You need to get off the SEC's dick if you think that division is better than the B12 North or the ACC Coastal. South Carolina is an inconsistent, slightly above average team. The rest of that division is terrible. Outside of S. Carolina beating Alabama that entire division does not have one good win, and went 3-15 against the West. After looking at their schedule's I actually think both ACC divisions are better than the SEC East.
