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I think this topic is just another "filler" topic. Radio talk show hosts will use this topic, the playoff debate, "who's the greatest team of all time?", and many others when they aren't smart enough to talk about real things. A good radio talk show host will never entertain any of these issues.
That said, I do not claim to be a radio talk show host, or even "good", for that matter. Therefore, I go charging in with my two cents...
I've often thought about this and I like this idea. With 12 teams, you have 8 games, and 3 teams each team didn't play. If you get two 8-0 teams (obviously, they never played), they would play for the conference championship. Nice. My only issue is about what you do when you get three 7-1 teams, where they all beat one of the other teams (like Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas Tech this year). Or worse, when you get three 8-0 teams. I would imagine that it's theoretically possible to even have four 8-0 teams.
Or what about when there's an 8-0 team, who won each of the games by an average of 30 points (and none closer than 20 points), and the next best team is 5-3. There's probably a lot of 5-3 teams, but the one that wins whatever tie-breaker is used in this case happens to have lost to the 8-0 team by 35 points. They play in the championship game, and win 13-10. Some people argue that the first time they met, the 5-3 team was without their best player. Others argue that the 8-0 team was without a certain player the second time. Whatever the reason - it doesn't matter. How can anyone say that the second team is the conference champion? They lost to a 2-6 team, for corn sakes!!! Just because they won the second game, and not the first, they're considered "the best team in the conference"?
Ugh. The more I think about any kind of conference championship game, the less I like it.
Anyway, the only way I can see the Big Ten expanding is with Notre Dame. Anyone else isn't going to pull their weight in the conference. They'd be another share in the bowl money, and I doubt that the Big Ten would get much in return. Notre Dame, on the other hand, gets all kinds of weird fans. I'm not sure that many of them really care about how good their team is - they'll always watch the games. That means lots of money from TV sponsers.
That said, I do not claim to be a radio talk show host, or even "good", for that matter. Therefore, I go charging in with my two cents...
muffler dragon;1347612; said:
I've often thought about this and I like this idea. With 12 teams, you have 8 games, and 3 teams each team didn't play. If you get two 8-0 teams (obviously, they never played), they would play for the conference championship. Nice. My only issue is about what you do when you get three 7-1 teams, where they all beat one of the other teams (like Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas Tech this year). Or worse, when you get three 8-0 teams. I would imagine that it's theoretically possible to even have four 8-0 teams.
Or what about when there's an 8-0 team, who won each of the games by an average of 30 points (and none closer than 20 points), and the next best team is 5-3. There's probably a lot of 5-3 teams, but the one that wins whatever tie-breaker is used in this case happens to have lost to the 8-0 team by 35 points. They play in the championship game, and win 13-10. Some people argue that the first time they met, the 5-3 team was without their best player. Others argue that the 8-0 team was without a certain player the second time. Whatever the reason - it doesn't matter. How can anyone say that the second team is the conference champion? They lost to a 2-6 team, for corn sakes!!! Just because they won the second game, and not the first, they're considered "the best team in the conference"?
Ugh. The more I think about any kind of conference championship game, the less I like it.
Anyway, the only way I can see the Big Ten expanding is with Notre Dame. Anyone else isn't going to pull their weight in the conference. They'd be another share in the bowl money, and I doubt that the Big Ten would get much in return. Notre Dame, on the other hand, gets all kinds of weird fans. I'm not sure that many of them really care about how good their team is - they'll always watch the games. That means lots of money from TV sponsers.
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