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I'm doing an investigative report for class over the current BCS state of affairs.

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Should winning your conference be necessary to play in the BCS Championship Game?

  • Yes

    Votes: 94 82.5%

  • No

    Votes: 20 17.5%
  • Total voters
    114
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I recall in 2001, Nebraska, who didn't even earn a spot in their conference title game, played Miami for the title. That situation was a little different in the fact #1 was not in the same conference. Nebraska was blasted in their final regular season game something like 63-36 by the Buffalos, sending Colorado to the Big XII title game against #3 Texas and dropping the Huskers to #6. Colorado won that game, but had 2 losses from earlier in the year. After #2 Florida lost to Tennessee, and the #2 Tennessee lost the SEC title game to LSU, Nebraska was #4 but was chosen over 10-1 Oregon (the third #2 in as many weeks) to go to the title game, where they were surgically picked apart by Ken Dorsey and company.

2006, Ohio State and TSUN were #1 and #2. Talking heads kept saying they were the best two in the country and if the game was close, maybe there should be a rematch. The Game ended with a 3 point victory and people started to back track. Florida got in over TSUN and proceeded to...do something... I blacked out after the opening kickoff, but you get my point.

Maybe, just maybe, Bama isn't really #2. Maybe Oklahoma State is. Maybe VaTech is. But we won't know unless one of them is given a chance to prove it on the field.
 
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Gosh, I just don't know. Lord knows that I hate the SEC. Can't really root for Barry Switzer U. Then again, I can't abide a university where the major donor pumps all his cash into the athletic department--that'd be you Okie Aggy. Then again squared, fucking truck driver u. just might sneak into the game. Then again cubed, I also hate Nike U and their dumb asses shouldn't back in by plunger raping a 6-5 ucla team.

LSU - Stanford it is.

Fuck the SEC rematch if they didn't give us a Big Ten rematch in aught6.

Fuck Okie Aggy.

Fuck Nike U.

Fuck Truck Driver U.

Can we just hit the reset button on this whole god dmaned college football season.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2053766; said:
Gosh, I just don't know. Lord knows that I hate the SEC. Can't really root for Barry Switzer U. Then again, I can't abide a university where the major donor pumps all his cash into the athletic department--that'd be you Okie Aggy. Then again squared, [censored]ing truck driver u. just might sneak into the game. Then again cubed, I also hate Nike U and their dumb asses shouldn't back in by plunger raping a 6-5 ucla team.

LSU - Stanford it is.

[censored] the SEC rematch if they didn't give us a Big Ten rematch in aught6.

[censored] Okie Aggy.

[censored] Nike U.

[censored] Truck Driver U.

Can we just hit the reset button on this whole god dmaned college football season.
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Can we keep Coach Meyer?
 
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Mariotwins;2053965; said:
Can we keep Coach Meyer?
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I was wondering the same thing.

I chose Okie State but was looking at a choice of D which is Bammer.

I like the reasons given by ORD_Buckeye but what about Va. Tech? I mean who even knew they were ranked #5? Same old Va. Tech. Lose early then sneak back into the top 10. :biggrin:
 
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My answer to the poll question is "no". But I have no problem when the individual human voters vote the conference champions higher than they normally would to put the conference champions ahead of a conference non-champion. I didn't think Nebraska should have been kept out of the NC game in 2001, or Oklahoma in 2003. (I'm not arguing that those teams belonged there - I just don't think they should have been locked out of the NC games.)

My answer to the question that this thread is becoming, specifically about 2011, I am very much against a re-match - this year or any. I know it happened in 1996 with Florida and Florida State. It nearly happened in 2006 with Ohio State and Michigan. It will probably happen this year with LSU and Alabama. My problem with it is likely the same as most people's: why should one team have to beat the other team twice, but the other team only has to win once? Team A beats Team B. They re-match, and Team B wins. Why is that second game more important than the first? Just because it has a name? Bah. Just my IMO.
 
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scooter1369;2053764; said:
Maybe, just maybe, Bama isn't really #2. Maybe Oklahoma State is. Maybe VaTech is. But we won't know unless one of them is given a chance to prove it on the field.
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IMHO, the past few weeks I have been wanting to see a rematch. I believed that no one can really compete with LSU other than Alabama. But when I do a little bit more thinking who knows what Ok St., Va Tech, or even Stanford can do.
Teams are completely different so LSU is capable of losing to a high powered Okie St. offense rather than just playing the run oriented Bama again. Give people a chance is all I have to say.

Playoffs
 
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SouthernBuck;2054501; said:
IMHO, the past few weeks I have been wanting to see a rematch. I believed that no one can really compete with LSU other than Alabama. But when I do a little bit more thinking who knows what Ok St., Va Tech, or even Stanford can do.
Teams are completely different so LSU is capable of losing to a high powered Okie St. offense rather than just playing the run oriented Bama again. Give people a chance is all I have to say.

Playoffs
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ORD_Buckeye;2054504; said:
I want a non-SEC team to have a shot at ending their run. If it's a rematch, then we're just guaranteed another SEC NC. At least make them earn it out of conference.
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For obvious reasons I like the 6th SEC ring, but I would really like to see Okie State and LSU play.
 
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Play-offs are exciting but I'm pretty sure I'd have some kind of rage fit if we lost to a team we would beat 9 times out of 10 like boise or tcu and it was just the 1 that they would win.

ORD_Buckeye;2054504; said:
At least make them earn it out of conference.
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I agree with this as well.
 
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I voted Yes. 2001 Nebraska was painful enough to watch that I never, ever want to see another team that can't even compete for their conference's title, let alone win it, compete for the BCS National Championship.

If there was a playoff, that would be a different story. But as it's set up now, no.
 
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Mariotwins;2054510; said:
Play-offs are exciting but I'm pretty sure I'd have some kind of rage fit if we lost to a team we would beat 9 times out of 10 like boise or tcu and it was just the 1 that they would win.



I agree with this as well.
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How do you really know we would beat them 9 times out of 10 though. Equal chances. Equal preparation
 
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