Because that 8-5 team wouldn't even be in a playoff game, unless they won a league like the Sun Belt and got an auto-bid to the playoffs. And it's also...
How is winning a championship game any luckier than winning a playoff game? From: collegebcs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:collegebcs@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
... A conference is a collection of schools. The "have nots" who might only get a BCS bid once in a lifetime won't vote to possibly have it taken away. What...
If you remember, last time the automatic bids came up, there was talk that the Big East might lose their automatic bid. I think it is far more likely that the...
Really, why not? Seems to me like the conference would rather send a 12-1 team to represent them as opposed to an 8-5 team. I think they are just 'forced' to...
And it also gives the bowls some flexibility, as they would generally have 6 or 7 (rarely 8) autobids, and then they'd get to choose the best 2-4 'travel'...
Michigan must beat Ohio State next Saturday to... --Become bowl eligible --Avoid their first last-place finish since 1962 --Avoid a second consecutive losing...
... Conferences determine their BCS representative. You'll never convince them that the conference champ might be excluded. Penn State Proud, Trader Kevin...
I don't think it's a tough sell at all. Who would the Fiesta rather have a 7-5 'conference champ' like K State or an 11-1 runner up like Texas. That's an easy...
... No, they won their last six to finish the regular season 9-3... http://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/Oregon.htm#1994 ... Good luck selling that. Penn State...
Wow, I remember that Oregon team being pretty bad (by Rose Bowl standards anyway) Weren't they 7-4?. But the point still holds, just a bad example. And yes, if...
I looked and saw Oregon was 9-3 and finished 7-4, forgot to remove that line from my post. ... -- --Joe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Completely disagree. I'd much rather see a small conference champ in March Madness than a team that finished 8-8 in a "power conference." As for D-III...
I definitely don't agree that automatic qualifiers are the bane of sports. Automatic qualifiers are what give the NCAA tournament it's charm, and are a huge...
... At the time the current coalition was formed, the BEast had a semi-arrangement with the Orange Bowl (back then the ACC/BE arrangement with the OB was...
... On what basis is the Big East in danger of being booted from the BCS? They are 3-2 in BCS bowls since the defections and are 12-4 in bowls over the past...
No they did not. From what I can tell, Miami joined the conference beginning in the 1991-1992 season, the first year of the BCS in its original format. This...
... What whomever's behind the rumour doesn't realize is that the main criterion for being an AQ conference is to have a contract with one of the BCS bowls (or...
I wonder if this Letter from Senator Hatch to President Obama has anything to do with the rumor about MWC expansion. The source for that rumor was said to be...
This would be a dream come true for Bronco fans, and it makes a ton of sense, which is why it probably isn't true. I've inlcuded the best report on the rumor...
Joe Dimino ... I just looked at Sagarin. As things stand, the MWC is 8th behind the six BCS conferences plus the I-A Independents. Adding the three teams...
I realize my ratings aren't the be all end all, but just to give it an objective look-see . . . Right now, without realignment, I have (covering all of I-A,...
It probably allows them to make the BCS argument, especially given the top teams, but I think they'd still be quite a bit under the BCS conferences in overall...
I would like to see that . . . both the merge and the BCSization of it. Would the WAC just dissolve? Would it raid the Sun Belt or CUSA? ... -- --Joe [Non-text...
There's a rumor that Boise State, Fresno State, and Nevada have been invited to join the 9-team Mountain West Conference. Such a move would virtually guarantee...
... Very likely. TCU closes with Utah (BCS #16) at home, at Wyoming (4-5), and home against New Mexico (0-9). Cincinnati has West Virginia (BCS #25) at home,...