Running bowl thread

Having said that, there's nothing that says that you have to include Troy, ECU and CMU in a 16-team field. You could force them into play-in games.

 

I said that too. Eh, whoops.

But there's nothing wrong with watching Nebraska get kicked in the nuts.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Division II and III (and maybe in the FCS) there are conferences that don't get automatic bids. Why should an FBS playoff be any different?
Your conference should have to earn your automatic bid with consistently strong finishes. Something like three different schools ranked in the top 15 of the final BCS standings over any five-year period. I think the Mountain West has done that at this point with TCU, Utah and maybe BYU. Other conferences, not so much.

 

Why? All that does is add an extra week to the playoffs.

 

Better yet, the remaining four plas the Mountain West and WAC and exclude the Fat 10 aned Pac 10. The minute Ohio State sees its slot taken by BYU you'll see bitching and they'll change their mind real fast. Shit, The MWC has given a better fight in the two games its been in than the Fat 10 in recent BCS bowls. Have a playoff with either of these two conferences. I give a shit, and I guarandamntee you no one outside of the midwest would care if the Fat 10 were not included in a playoff Let them have their Pasadena Circle Jerk every year.

 

1. This is Division I we're talking about, not Division II or III.

2. Three of the leagues that are "shut out" of the title chase are the ones you would be excluding if you DON'T give AQs to all 11 conferences. Why would those three conferences agree to a playoff system they wouldn't be a part of?

3. How do you determine which leagues don't get AQs? For example, CUSA & the MAC should get AQs ahead of the WAC based on the strength of their conferences from top to bottom.

 

You still haven't answered my question.

You call someone a "fucking idiot" for assuming TCU could score 34 on Iowa. Would you have made the same statement about someone two days ago who predicted Alabama's offense could hang 34 on Florida? I'm guessing you would have, given that Florida's defense had surrendered nine touchdowns, while Bama's offense wasn't exactly earth-shattering.

 

In FCS, it's the Ivy League, any conference that schedules a game during the playoffs (i.e., the SWAC) and the three non-scholarship conferences, which don't take part, I believe, of their own volition.

IIRC, from the time I lived in a D-2 town, that bracket has something to do with regional rankings, since there's so little crossover among teams from different regions.

 

Four-team playoff unless more than four are undefeated, then instant play-in games to get you down to four.

If you aren't undefeated and you don't get in, too damn bad.

 

There's certainly a board rule against the former. And Nebraska's loss to Iowa State was to a bowl team they blew out stats-wise, but lost the ball eight times against. That doesn't portend a blowout loss to Texas, especially with Suh so hot.

Iowa, meanwhile, barely beat an FCS team and barely beat one of the FBS dregs. And their starting QB is now hurt. Thus, my argument that Penn State is more worthy despite losing to Iowa in a game the Lions dominated for three quarters is not idiotic. You may not agree with it, but ad hominem is a logical fallacy.

 

Not saying it would be convenient. Just that it would be a way to keep from putting the Sun Belt and the MAC on the same pedestal as the SEC and the Big 12.

I would be in favor, by the way, of re-examining Division I-A and actually enforcing some of the attendance and other rules. Trim some of the dead weight.

 

Actually I said Alabama would win yesterday. But don't let facts get in the way.

And I've seen Iowa and TCU enough this year to make a pretty good guess what would happen. TCU would wear down and Iowa would win late.

As much love as TCU gets around here, its offense isn't good enough to handle a defense like Iowa's. But the TCU polesmokers around here are too blinded to see that.

And the argument that "so and so only beat so and so by that much so they can't beat these other guys" is fucking idiotic.