BCS Sucks
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past 5 years, you have probably have heard the growing “dissatisfaction” with the BCS System. It is no secret – people want a playoff. You might ask how does the BCS work (link).
But why is the BCS a horrible thing?
How about some old school Chris Farley will help us explain.
Tommy: “What’s your name?”
Helen: “Helen”
Tommy: “Helen. You look like a Helen. Helen, we’re both in sales. Let me tell you why
Tommy: ...for college football. Let’s say the College Season is almost over and it is even remotely close to deciding an outright National Champion.”
Tommy: “Well, then Athletic Directors get all excited like JoJo the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet. The pet is a college football season with an outright National Champion. ‘Oh, my pretty little pet. I love you.’“
Tommy: “So I stroke it. And I pet it. And I massage it. I looove it. I love my little naughty outright National Champion. You’re NAUGHTY.”
Tommy: “Then I take my naughty outright National Champion and go SQUKKKK SQUKKKK”
Tommy: “OOHHHHHH. I KILLED MY COLLEGE SEASON… OHH NOOO”
And there you have it. Why the BCS Sucks by Chris Farley. R.I.P.
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Here are a few points:
□ The polls are subjective, meaning there is an inordinate amount of human error.
□ Computers are computers. A computer can’t tell its USB drive from a hole in the ground. How would it know if Georgia or Ohio State should be in the National Championship □ The computer and BCS system give incentive to inflate scores and sandbag college football schedules (link). Take a look at National Champion contender Ohio State in 2007 and prove it otherwise.
In all fairness, the BCS is better than the previous bowl system. Take a look here at all the seasons when there was not outright National Champion at all before the BCS: Before the BCS, “SPLIT” titles. No real Champion was established, but here were the “co-champions”:
‘54 UCLA (UPI Coaches Poll), Ohio State (AP)
‘57 Ohio State (UPI Coaches Poll), Auburn (AP)
‘65 Michigan State (UPI Coaches Poll), Alabama (AP)
‘70 Nebraska (AP), Texas (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘73 Notre Dame (AP), Alabama (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘74 Oklahoma (AP), Southern California (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘78 Alabama (AP), Southern California (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘90 Colorado (AP), Georgia Tech (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘91 Miami, Fla. (AP), Washington (USA Today/CNN Coaches Poll)
‘94 Nebraska (AP, USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll)
‘97 Michigan (AP), Nebraska (USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll) (Additionally in 1994, the AP and Coaches Poll each voted Nebraska as the National Champion but the Congrove Computer Rankings awarded the title to a similarly undefeated Penn State team.)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past 5 years, you have probably have heard the growing “dissatisfaction” with the BCS System. It is no secret – people want a playoff. You might ask how does the BCS work (link).
But why is the BCS a horrible thing?
How about some old school Chris Farley will help us explain.
Tommy: “What’s your name?”
Helen: “Helen”
Tommy: “Helen. You look like a Helen. Helen, we’re both in sales. Let me tell you why
The BCS SUCKS…”
Tommy: ...for college football. Let’s say the College Season is almost over and it is even remotely close to deciding an outright National Champion.”
Tommy: “Well, then Athletic Directors get all excited like JoJo the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet. The pet is a college football season with an outright National Champion. ‘Oh, my pretty little pet. I love you.’“
Tommy: “So I stroke it. And I pet it. And I massage it. I looove it. I love my little naughty outright National Champion. You’re NAUGHTY.”
Tommy: “Then I take my naughty outright National Champion and go SQUKKKK SQUKKKK”
Tommy: “OOHHHHHH. I KILLED MY COLLEGE SEASON… OHH NOOO”
And there you have it. Why the BCS Sucks by Chris Farley. R.I.P.
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Why does the BCS really Suck?
The BCS sucks because there is absolutely no way to decide an outright national champions without a playoff system. Every other college sport in the country leaves it on the field, yet the greatest sport of all, college football, decides to have coaches, reporters, and computers decide which two teams at the end of the season deserve a shot at #1.Here are a few points:
□ The polls are subjective, meaning there is an inordinate amount of human error.
□ Computers are computers. A computer can’t tell its USB drive from a hole in the ground. How would it know if Georgia or Ohio State should be in the National Championship □ The computer and BCS system give incentive to inflate scores and sandbag college football schedules (link). Take a look at National Champion contender Ohio State in 2007 and prove it otherwise.
In all fairness, the BCS is better than the previous bowl system. Take a look here at all the seasons when there was not outright National Champion at all before the BCS: Before the BCS, “SPLIT” titles. No real Champion was established, but here were the “co-champions”:
‘54 UCLA (UPI Coaches Poll), Ohio State (AP)
‘57 Ohio State (UPI Coaches Poll), Auburn (AP)
‘65 Michigan State (UPI Coaches Poll), Alabama (AP)
‘70 Nebraska (AP), Texas (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘73 Notre Dame (AP), Alabama (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘74 Oklahoma (AP), Southern California (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘78 Alabama (AP), Southern California (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘90 Colorado (AP), Georgia Tech (UPI Coaches Poll)
‘91 Miami, Fla. (AP), Washington (USA Today/CNN Coaches Poll)
‘94 Nebraska (AP, USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll)
‘97 Michigan (AP), Nebraska (USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll) (Additionally in 1994, the AP and Coaches Poll each voted Nebraska as the National Champion but the Congrove Computer Rankings awarded the title to a similarly undefeated Penn State team.)