Rankings are such BS!

Question

How in the world is Nebraska ranked ahead of Wisconsin! Yes, Wisconsin lost, and Mich St. gets much deserved credit for beating them! But it is not like they actually dominated them, to me Wisconsin is and still looked like the superior team, with Wisconsin basically losing because of special teams blunders and then the hale mary. I mean, Oklahoma lost at home to Texas Tech, do you really think Mich. St would even be in the game if it was at Wisconsin, c -mon now! Wisconsin whooped Nebraska, and they are ranked ahead of them, Please, Wisconsin had a bad day, but they are still top ten worthy, and could beat anybody in the top 10!

Dbarsch · Answer

How in the world is Nebraska ranked ahead of Wisconsin! Yes, Wisconsin lost, and Mich St. gets much deserved credit for beating them! But it is not like they actually dominated them, to me Wisconsin is and still looked like the superior team, with Wisconsin basically losing because of special teams blunders and then the hale mary. I mean, Oklahoma lost at home to Texas Tech, do you really think Mich. St would even be in the game if it was at Wisconsin, c -mon now! Wisconsin whooped Nebraska, and they are ranked ahead of them, Please, Wisconsin had a bad day, but they are still top ten worthy, and could beat anybody in the top 10!

Arromatic33 · Answer

Playoff is the ONLY answer!!

Boom_Boom · Answer

Its a popularity contest. Always has been

every week when the polls come out its almost like a " Snap Shot " of the weekend.

Look... Stanford jumps Boise and Clemson in the polls. How? They played on Prime Time.

The polls are a Joke..When week 13 or 14 gets here things will iron themselves out.

soonboomer · Answer

I&#x27;ve yet to see a playoff scenario that&#x27;s any better than what we have now.

Arromatic33 · Answer

At least the teams could decide it on the field with a playoff.

soonboomer · Answer

Every week is a playoff.......Oklahoma and Wisconsin were likely eliminated last week.

castorinho · Answer

Wisconsin&#x27;s BCS rankings is due to their shitty computer rankings. BOTH human polls (Coaches and Harris) have Wisconsin ahead of Nebraska. However Wisconsin&#x27;s shitty schedule kills them in the computers.

thawv · Answer

What we have now is about as bad as it gets.  Only two teams have a shot.  At the end of the day, they put the two teams they want there.  This is, and always has been a terrible system.

thorpe · Answer

You need to wait until the end of the year.  Wisconsin has 0 road wins this year, so they got killed by the computers.

soonboomer · Answer

So, at the end of the day, they could put the eight teams they want there?

castorinho · Answer

Not really, the BCS is only a problem when people get too excited early in the season and start talking about possible match-ups. Most of the time it sorts itself out at the end of the year.

thorpe · Answer

If you don&#x27;t go 12-0 you don&#x27;t deserve to play for the BCS.  Once every 8 years or so you have 3 deserving teams, which stinks, but playing in the Sugar or Rose is a good consolation prize.

thawv · Answer

You are correct.  However, a playoff system is always going to be better.  If they have a playoff, they lose all control of who becomes the National Champion.  A fair, easy playoff system can be worked out.  That&#x27;s not an issue.  They just don&#x27;t want to do it.  I personally don&#x27;t know what the reason is.  But I&#x27;m sure it benefits the NCAA not to.

RJSizzle · Answer

Soonboomer, amen. Playoff would kill the importance of the regular season. You know you are of the right mind when the majority disagrees.

castorinho · Answer

Even if there were to be a playoff, voters would still play a role and we would have the same gripe. For example this year it would be about which 1-loss teams get in and which ones don&#x27;t? Back to square 1.

thawv · Answer

Soon there will be only 5 conferences with 16 teams in it.  The winner of each conference, and the next best 11 records.  The playoffs begin.  No more opinions or jockeying teams  around where people want them to be.  Forty teams are going to be shit out of luck with any chance of winng the title.  But they never had a chance anyways.

soonboomer · Answer

&#xD;&#xA;This is where the problem lies.  Hypothetically, lets say that the 16th and last team in is a 3 loss ACC team. The 17th team (first team eliminated) is a 3 loss PAC 12 team.  Who determines, and how is it determined, that the ACC team gets in and the PAC 12 team doesn&#x27;t make the playoff?  The 17th ranked team will never have a legitimate complaint about not getting in over the #1 rannked team, but in many instances, it will be the human element that allows #16 in and keeps #17 out.  Until the human element is completely eliminated, it won&#x27;t be any different from what we have now, except you will have 8 or 16 teams in contention instead of 2.

thawv · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by soonboomer]  &#xD;&#xA;This is where the problem lies.  Hypothetically, lets say that the 16th and last team in is a 3 loss ACC team. The 17th team (first team eliminated) is a 3 loss PAC 12 team.  Who determines, and how is it determined, that the ACC team gets in and the PAC 12 team doesn&#x27;t make the playoff?  The 17th ranked team will never have a legitimate complaint about not getting in over the #1 rannked team, but in many instances, it will be the human element that allows #16 in and keeps #17 out.  Until the human element is completely eliminated, it won&#x27;t be any different from what we have now, except you will have 8 or 16 teams in contention instead of 2.  [/Quote]Of course things have to be ironed out.  Nothing is going to be perfect.  We&#x27;re all just looking for something better than what we have now.  My opinion is, and always be, that the title is decided on the field.  Not by a group of guys and a computer stating which two teams play in the big game.  It&#x27;s so bizzare that it&#x27;s still done this way.  Every other sport seems to manage ok with a playoff.  Even at the college level.  There&#x27;s no excuse why it can&#x27;t be done in college football.

soonboomer · Answer

&#xD;&#xA;That&#x27;s the beauty of college football, and why it has the best regular season of all sports. Every playoff scenario I&#x27;ve ever seen still has a group of guys and a computer stating what 8 or what 16 teams get in. What is it that makes 8 or 16 better than 2?

THEMUGG · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by soonboomer] &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;That&#x27;s the beauty of college football, and why it has the best regular season of all sports. Every playoff scenario I&#x27;ve ever seen still has a group of guys and a computer stating what 8 or what 16 teams get in. What is it that makes 8 or 16 better than 2?&#xD;&#xA;[/Quote]&#xD;&#xA; Because it helps minimize the popularity contest. Some years the top 2 is easy.........many times it isn&#x27;t. The best teams aren&#x27;t always the the top 2.

KushJ · Answer

THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40mhBE5MpbA&amp;feature=related

TyDarius · Answer

Well the major travesy has yet to happen, that will happen after this week. LSU and BAMA are the two best teams in the country IMO, but one will most likely lose that shot to play for it after this week. The best way is to set up an 8 team playoff system,  and yes teams that are on the bubble at 9 and 10 theres gonna be controversy at who gets in, but if you&#x27;re down at 6  or less, you really arent in the conversation for who&#x27;s number 1 anyway, so who cares if 9 or 10 gets snubbed.  set up and 8 team play off and that settles it and would take 3 or 4 weeks, pending on how they want to align the games. 2 straight weeks and maybe one week off before the show down or just 3 straight weeks.

soonboomer · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by THEMUGG] &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA; Because it helps minimize the popularity contest. Some years the top 2 is easy.........many times it isn&#x27;t. The best teams aren&#x27;t always the the top 2. &#xD;&#xA;[/Quote]&#xD;&#xA;If it&#x27;s a popularity contest to decide if a team should be ranked 2nd instead of 3rd, wouldn&#x27;t it also be a popularity contest to decide if a team is ranked 8th or 9th, or 15th or 16th?  My whole point is, unless there is an unbiased set in stone method (absent of human opinion) to determine the field, you&#x27;re always going to have the 1st out vs. last in argument.  And, this doesn&#x27;t even address the issue of playing sites and fan support.  Since you won&#x27;t know who or where you&#x27;re playing in the 2nd round until the 1st round is completed, how likely are fans going to be able to afford last minute travel expenses and tickets for multiple rounds?  And, where will the games be played?  At least a BCS championship game between Auburn and Oregon in the Fiesta bowl is a fairly neutral site. Having any of the games as home games for any team doesn&#x27;t give a true representation of who the better team is. I could go on and on about the downside aspects of a college football playoff.

jo14014 · Answer

There should be a system like a wild card in baseball implemented.....Ask how the system like that got going then maybe tweak it some like the NFL has. NBA/NHL too many teams in the playoffs. And how about College basketball. I know they play a lot more games so that's more suitable to have a tourney for them.

Final answer(s) might be NFL=NCAA Football system

NBA=NCAA Mens Basketball system.

NHL=MLB??

thorpe · Answer

And they lose their shot because they lost the game.  What is wrong with that?   Do you want to make the NCAA basketball tournament double elimination?  It is likely the two best teams don&#x27;t play in the final of that tournament.

Rankings are such BS!

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