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No one with a brain would say Boise is not a good football team, a very good football team. But to suggest they are better than all but 1-3 teams in the nation based on squeaking out a win over Virginia Tech and running roughshod over the WAC is quite a stretch, indeed.

Someday, those of us who want a playoff may well thank them, for it's the only way we'll really know if they can be the best team in the country. Being hand selected for a one shot, winner take all game with a month to prepare after playing a crap schedule won't prove it. If they win, it'll prove what we already know - they're good, and they can find a way to win ONE game versus a top team. Navigating a big time schedule to a championship is something else, altogether.
 
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Obviously, I'm not a playoff guy. But, I do believe it'll take a year like this one for people to basically do the same thing we all did in 1984 .... and that is have a collective, "What the fuck?" Once enough people from big time schools ask that question, playoffs are inevitable.
 
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Jake;1809705; said:
No one with a brain would say Boise is not a good football team, a very good football team. But to suggest they are better than all but 1-3 teams in the nation based on squeaking out a win over Virginia Tech and running roughshod over the WAC is quite a stretch, indeed.

Someday, those of us who want a playoff may well thank them, for it's the only way we'll really know if they can be the best team in the country. Being hand selected for a one shot, winner take all game with a month to prepare after playing a crap schedule won't prove it. If they win, it'll prove what we already know - they're good, and they can find a way to win ONE game versus a top team. Navigating a big time schedule to a championship is something else, altogether.
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And get to rest (avoid injuries) their players 50% of the season when they're winning 49-3 every game. The schedule matters!
 
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Saw31;1809772; said:
And get to rest (avoid injuries) their players 50% of the season when they're winning 49-3 every game. The schedule matters!
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Corso is making that point this morning while Des and Herbie are slobbering all over TCU and Boise. Give 'em hell, Lee!
 
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Jake;1817604; said:
They'll take them over a match up that will interest few east of the Mississippi and no one south of the Mason Dixon line. Oregon-Boise is a ratings nightmare.
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This would truly be one of those years when the "Plus 1" scenario would help out the BCS alot.

Have Oregon play Boise (again) and AU play TCU and then the winners play each other a week later.
 
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BigWoof31;1817739; said:
This would truly be one of those years when the "Plus 1" scenario would help out the BCS alot.

Have Oregon play Boise (again) and AU play TCU and then the winners play each other a week later.
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The plus one solves almost all BCS controversies without diminishing the regular season like a playoff would.

It would fix OSU-UM-UF, USC-UT-AU, UF-OU-UT, etc.

Sure someone might gripe at #5, but those teams almost never have a worthy argument compared to the top-2.
 
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WolverineMike;1817751; said:
no matter what they do someone is going to find something to complain about.

+1, the number 5 team complains
8 team playoff, the 9th team bitches
16 team playoff, the 17th team says they had a chance

etc, etc, etc......
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Agreed. But it seems to me that the +1 model would at least help legitimize/expose the Boise/TCU's of the world.
 
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WolverineMike;1817751; said:
no matter what they do someone is going to find something to complain about.

+1, the number 5 team complains
8 team playoff, the 9th team bitches
16 team playoff, the 17th team says they had a chance

etc, etc, etc......
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Let's keep the play-off talk in the play-off thread.

Please not with this argument though. It has been done to death.


EDIT: Hmmmm... I guess we're in the play-off thread already. How'd that happen?

Carry on.
 
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jwinslow;1817744; said:
The plus one solves almost all BCS controversies without diminishing the regular season like a playoff would.
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Here's my problem with the Plus One. Take years like last year and Miami-OSU (2002), and put the Plus One in those years? Would it have improved the situation or muddied the water? The Plus One is like the BCS title game itself - it requires things to fall a certain way in order to be perceived as having "worked" by the masses. Some years, it would actually make things worse.

As for a playoff "diminishing the regular season" I don't see how. We already select 10 teams using the BCS formula. Select the top 8 and have a playoff. Done.

The rest of the bowl games could be played as always, and they'll be just as important (or not) as they are now.
 
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