I think the SEC and Big 12 both are pathetic for their conference title games.
I can understand people bashing the Big 10 for their network, but at least that doesn't effect play. I guess it worked last year for Florida though. Got them past Michigan and gave them two extra weeks. Maybe the Big Ten should lose all integrity and get a pointless conference championship game.
This is the time. The real Reds organization is back.
I think either all of them should have them or none of them should. I prefer to see the title won through conference play and not a winner take all game. Although it's easier when you're the Big 10 and can play about every conference opponent except one or two.
A conference title game can help or hurt a team's cause. LSU is a perfect example. They are sitting pretty at #2 and if they lose the SEC championship game, they have 2 losses and no shot at the BCS championship. Or, like Florida did last year, they could vault another team for the right to play in the BCS championship.
The conference championship games are all about money, nothing else.
It took a long time for the Big Ten to come around with a conference basketball tournament. They'll be slow to go the championship game route as well but they'll get there. They'll need a 12th team first.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
So you think if Kansas wins their last two games and the title game ends up being Ohio State and LSU or Oregon that the BCS is no longer legitimate?
Kansas has played nobody this season. At least nobody who is currently recieving votes in the AP poll. And even Troy is getting a vote in the AP poll. LSU has gone 5-1 against teams who are getting votes. Sorry, but to me that is more impressive than being 0-0 against such teams. And one win over Missouri isn't going to solve that issue.
And if we get that far and both teams win their conference championship game, a win over OU for Kansas is not going to be THAT much more impressive than a win for LSU over Georgia or Florida.
So it suprises me that you think a win over Missouri is going to make up for this awful schedule which is ranked 104th right now, right in front of Bowling Green and Florida Atlantic.
Kansas can prove they aren't a fraud. We really have no way of knowing at this point since they have been playing the JV teams schedule. But I still don't think they can lay claim to having as impressive of a season as LSU or Oregon or Ohio State if none of those teams loses another game.
Being in the SEC, nobody should be surprised that LSU has a loss. And looking at KU's schedule, nobody should be surprised that they don't.
I think a one loss OU or a one loss Mizzou could lay more claim to a title game shot than undefeated Kansas. I don't think you get bonus points for going undefeated without considering SOS.
Kansas is the perfect example of why you need championship games.
They avoid both OU and Texas during the regular season. They shouldn't win the league over a one loss Texas or OU team if they don't play them. You can't declare a conference champion from regular play if all the teams aren't playing each other IMO. Especially when you aren't playing two or more of the teams. Too unbalanced.
Plus conference title games mean teams don't have to sit around for two months like Ohio State had to do last year and will have to do again this year.
I can't be against additional college football games that matter. The Big 10 and Pac 10 need to catch up with the rest of the world.
You don't think beating the #5 and #6 teams in the country in succession to end the season would lend enough legitimacy to Kansas? Because that's what they'd have to do to remain unbeaten. My guess is that two such victories would vault them up to #2 in the BCS, regardless of their early season weakness of schedule.
The idea that a one-loss OU or MU having more claim to the title than Kansas is absolutely moot, because those things simply can't happen. If Kansas remains undefeated, both OU and MU will have two losses. If either OU or MU finishes the season with 1 loss, then KU will have 1 loss as well and thus will be out of the running.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
Johnny, I don't see how this is possible. You know how the pollsters feel about the SEC (LSU) and the flavor of the month, Oregon. No way the pollsters vault Kansas over either of those two and the polls account for 2/3 of the BCS formula.
Your best bet, is LSU losing the SEC championship (a very possible scenario) and that causing enough of a shakeup that the pollsters re-examine where they have Kansas and Oregon.
I agree Buckeye. Kansas is quite a way behind LSU even though it is only two spots.
Johnny, my scenario with one loss OU or Mizzou compared to KU was purely hypothetical. My point was that if Mizzou or OU wins the Big 12 they will be just as deserving of a title game shot as KU would have been if they went undefeated and won the conference. Just my opinion.
The question about Kansas wasn't about making them legitimate. You said the BCS would have to put Kansas in the game to remain legitimate. I don't think we can say today that Kansas is the second best team in the country IF they beat Mizzou and OU. It isn't that easy. And I don't think it is fair to annoint them just because they won those games. Its a body of work, not a two week season. And what about LSU? And Oregon? Their seasons are at the mercy of Kansas even though they play tougher teams and are ranked higher?
Like I said, didn't want to make this about Kansas and where they will be on the legitimacy meter IF they beat the Sooners and Tigers. My inquiry was about the BCS remaining legit if they "spurn" the Jayhawks.
I agree it is a body of work, not a two-week season. Unfortunately, the polls are heavily weighted towards the end of the year. A 1-loss team who lost in September and October is viewed with a lot more regard than a 1-loss team who loses in November (case in point: Oklahoma). Bearing that in mind, a super-strong finish could (and should) have a huge impact in the polls.
In terms of legitimacy, well, if a team like Kansas can play in a BSC conference, finish the season against consecutive top-10 opponents, and emerge undefeated, but still have no shot at a national title, you've really got to take a long, hard look at the system.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
If Kansas runs the table they deserve to be in the BCS championship game. Imagine the complaints from SEC fans if in a down year a team like South Carolina ran the table and was left out of the game to a 1 loss Oklahoma. Like it or not if you run the table in a BCS conference you deserve to play in the title game.
If Bowling Green was undefeated right now (they have the same SOS as Kansas) and just happened to have number 5 Missouri on their schedule, would you be advocating them as worthy of being in the title game?
Kansas has the 104th ranked schedule, BCS conference or not and they haven't beaten anyone. Not even close to anyone, really.
My point is they have the resume that a number of MAC teams have had over the year, even if we give them the win against Mizzou.
IMO the fact that the NCAA recognizes them as a member of the Big 12 doesn't mean squat when your schedule is that bad.
There schedule isn't tougher because they are in a BCS conference. It is a weak schedule, no matter what league you play in.
The BCS system punishes losses no matter who they were against. That's why teams like South Florida and BC were ranked so highly even though they were exposed as paper tigers. That's why tOSU is #1. You keep on winning, you get rewarded. You lose and you are punished.
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