Running bowl thread

Hey, stop telling the SEC's scheduling secrets.......

 

still waiting, simon.....

 

2009: Boise played Oregon . . . and no one else.


2010: Tennessee plays Oregon . . . and each of the past 3 national champions (Alabama, Florida, LSU).


There is your difference.

 

So what you are telling us is that Tennessee will have at least four losses next year. Good, good to hear.

 

Well, first, it'd be easy enough to say that a qualifying FBS schedule has to include 11 FBS teams. It's quite reasonable not to let teams schedule outside of the competition.

But with a well-designed system, it's perfectly possible to still encourage strong scheduling. Hell, have a four-team playoff with three spots earned by a selection system and make any small-conference or bad-schedule undefeateds play-in against each other for the fourth for all I care. Just make them lose it on the field.

 

As for the best teams:

'Bama
Florida
Texas
Ohio State
After that, it's tough. Some order of Va. Tech, Iowa, Boise, Cincy

 

Boise is better than Ohio State.

 

Andy Dolphin's predictive rankings, which I have quite a bit of respect for, before tonight had it:

Alabama, Florida, Texas, Virginia Tech, TCU, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Boise State, Oregon.

These are designed to be a ranking of "best" teams and not necessarily reflect who beat whom.
http://www.dolphinsim.com/ratings/ncaa_fb/

 

I agree. A 4 team playoff. An 8 team playoff. Whatever.
But right now, we have the system we have. And equating an undefeated Boise team with one win over a major-conference opponent and an Alabama team that beat four of the 10 best teams in the country is ridiculous. A team needs to win it on the field, not just not lose it there.

 

OK, so as to make sure the silliness of splitting hairs ends here.....

So what you are saying is that if Boise's non-conference schedule was Western Kentucky, North Texas, Eastern Michigan and Rice and then they played their WAC schedule and went undefeated, you'd consider them co-champs with an undefeated team from the SEC, Big 12, Pac 10 or whatever?

 

Anyone who thinks VT is the fourth-best team in the country is out of their mind.

 

Would Alabama suddenly suck if it moved to the WAC? Boise can't help what conference it's in.