WhitUp
Well-Known Member
All the anti-football playoffs people always say every game counts in college football. I've always thought that is so far from the truth. In 2002 if Iowa would of beat Iowa State and gone undefeated they'd still been left out of the national title. So basically none of our games counted. At the beginning of college football season you could probably say about 80 percent of all teams in the nation go undefeated they still wouldn't be in the title game. So if that's true majority of all college football games don't matter.
If you look at the basketball bubble right now every game truly does count, one more win and we'd probably be on the other side of the bubble. People are analyzing games against scrub teams in November to determine whose in. In basketball every game DOES count. Teams in right now had one less big win or one more horrible loss they'd be out.
I guess you could say for the top tier games these late season games don't matter since they are already in the tourney. But anybody watch Indy/Mich or Creighton/WSU and say those games didn't matter or it took away from them since they were all already in? Anybody ever watch the big east tournament and say all these teams are in they don't care about this tournament? They were still playing for seeding and conference titles they still matter.
At the end of the basketball season almost every game counts towards something if not for making tourney, tourney seeding, or conference tourney seeding(which could make the tourney) it all matters. In football 99% games at the end of the season don't mean much more then pride.
If you look at the basketball bubble right now every game truly does count, one more win and we'd probably be on the other side of the bubble. People are analyzing games against scrub teams in November to determine whose in. In basketball every game DOES count. Teams in right now had one less big win or one more horrible loss they'd be out.
I guess you could say for the top tier games these late season games don't matter since they are already in the tourney. But anybody watch Indy/Mich or Creighton/WSU and say those games didn't matter or it took away from them since they were all already in? Anybody ever watch the big east tournament and say all these teams are in they don't care about this tournament? They were still playing for seeding and conference titles they still matter.
At the end of the basketball season almost every game counts towards something if not for making tourney, tourney seeding, or conference tourney seeding(which could make the tourney) it all matters. In football 99% games at the end of the season don't mean much more then pride.
