LSimbolo
Well-Known Member
I’d like to propose some changes to the BCS that really should be doable, except I’m sure those teams/conferences they’d hurt would disagree so they’re probably not easily implementable:
1. Obviously, there should be no Coaches Pre-Season Poll. First poll could come out first week of October – still ahead of first BCS rankings.
2. The only path to a conference’s automatic qualification should be whether one of the BCS bowls wants to have a contract specifically with that bowl – sorry, Big East. If one of the bowls cannot say that they want your champion (no matter what), then your conference doesn’t belong.
3. So, the 10 teams should qualify as follows:
a. #1 vs #2
b. Any conference champion in the Top 10 automatically qualifies
c. The highest rated independent (if in the Top 10) automatically qualifies
d. From that point on the bowls pick whoever they want regardless of conference affiliation (and no limit of 2 teams per conference)
4. Selection order should be as follows (in order to get best matchups):
a. #1 vs #2
b. Conference affiliations
c. If a Bowl loses its conf champ to the NC game then it chooses first (just like now, including “Iowa Ruleâ€)
d. Any bowls without a conference tie-in rotate their first pick year-to-year (like now)
e. Once every bowl has one team selected, the bowl with the highest rated team gets to pick first, and so on, and so on.
5. If item #2 cannot be implemented then a final BCS standings should be released after the bowls. The Coaches and computers have a post-bowl poll – just need Harris voters to do the same. These post-bowl rankings are what should be used to determine conference’s automatically eligibility. If there are criteria for maintaining automatic status, how your conference performs in the BCS bowls should weigh in. Bowl performance does weigh-in slightly now (just in the minds of voters in preseason polls), but it should factor more.
Your thoughts???
This year, my rules probably would have arrived at the same 10 teams getting invited, but the matchups may have been different:
· Alabama –Texas in NC game
· OSU – Oregon Rose Bowl
· Sugar still would have picked Florida
· Fiesta would have picked TCU
· Orange still would have gotten GaTech
· Then Fiesta would get next pick and probably would have taken Boise, but maybe Iowa
· Sugar would have the following pick and would have picked Iowa if available (I think), and Boise if not Iowa
· Orange would have ended up with Cincinnati
1. Obviously, there should be no Coaches Pre-Season Poll. First poll could come out first week of October – still ahead of first BCS rankings.
2. The only path to a conference’s automatic qualification should be whether one of the BCS bowls wants to have a contract specifically with that bowl – sorry, Big East. If one of the bowls cannot say that they want your champion (no matter what), then your conference doesn’t belong.
3. So, the 10 teams should qualify as follows:
a. #1 vs #2
b. Any conference champion in the Top 10 automatically qualifies
c. The highest rated independent (if in the Top 10) automatically qualifies
d. From that point on the bowls pick whoever they want regardless of conference affiliation (and no limit of 2 teams per conference)
4. Selection order should be as follows (in order to get best matchups):
a. #1 vs #2
b. Conference affiliations
c. If a Bowl loses its conf champ to the NC game then it chooses first (just like now, including “Iowa Ruleâ€)
d. Any bowls without a conference tie-in rotate their first pick year-to-year (like now)
e. Once every bowl has one team selected, the bowl with the highest rated team gets to pick first, and so on, and so on.
5. If item #2 cannot be implemented then a final BCS standings should be released after the bowls. The Coaches and computers have a post-bowl poll – just need Harris voters to do the same. These post-bowl rankings are what should be used to determine conference’s automatically eligibility. If there are criteria for maintaining automatic status, how your conference performs in the BCS bowls should weigh in. Bowl performance does weigh-in slightly now (just in the minds of voters in preseason polls), but it should factor more.
Your thoughts???
This year, my rules probably would have arrived at the same 10 teams getting invited, but the matchups may have been different:
· Alabama –Texas in NC game
· OSU – Oregon Rose Bowl
· Sugar still would have picked Florida
· Fiesta would have picked TCU
· Orange still would have gotten GaTech
· Then Fiesta would get next pick and probably would have taken Boise, but maybe Iowa
· Sugar would have the following pick and would have picked Iowa if available (I think), and Boise if not Iowa
· Orange would have ended up with Cincinnati