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The Louisville "Bandwagon"

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OSUBasketballJunkie;657289; said:
Fox will be in an uproar if somehow Rutgers makes it into the national title game....
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They were saying at the end of the game last night that "Now that Louisville is out of the picture, you have to think about Rutgers' claim".

If we were to play them for the title, ratings would be at an all time low, but Rutgers would benefit dramatically from the appearance.
 
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BayBuck;656768; said:
Those rules never said that all unbeatens have to be ranked above 1-loss teams... SoS still counts in the computers and there's still a couple games for Louisville to show they are less than BCS-worthy, so that the voters can correct the problem of having a subpar unbeaten team ranked so high. They are, after all, in the conference that the "Big East rule" is named for.
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Of course the rules didn't state that 0-loss teams get priority... but if it would have played out that a 0-loss Louisville would have hung onto that #2 spot no one behind them would have a leg to stand on... obviously that is a moot point now... my point was the conferences agreed to the system in place, if they don't like it then fix it.
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie;657289; said:
Fox will be in an uproar if somehow Rutgers makes it into the national title game....
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I will be in an uproar as well.

OSU/Rutgers?????????????? No way.

OSU/UF, OSU/UT those are games worthy of being played.

Rutgers should be in a good BCS game, against a high ranked 1 loss team, then they will lose and it will be ok.
 
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A point of clarification. The BCS system does not acknowledge that the conferences are of the same strength. It has not agreed that an undefeated team should play in the BCS championship.

In fact, the BCS championship structure, in which the national polls and computer ratings determine the qualifying teams, is designed expressly to ensure that a one-loss team that plays a tougher schedule gets the chance to play for a national championship instead of a no-loss team playing a weaker schedule.

Otherwise, there would be no need for the elaborate system in years when just two teams are undefeated.
 
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DiamondBuck;657147; said:
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I think it was this one, over in Hazard County...

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yea..this is 3 posts in a row in my own thread...

anyways..

so if west virginia beats rutgers, and then rutgers wins out and louisville wins out the rest of the season, then what happens?

rutgers wins the conference because they have the tiebreaker over louisville, who has the tiebreaker over wv?
 
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