OT - I feel as if the SEC owes us an apology

[tzznandrew]

Look. The problem with college football is this: you can say "Alabama would have killed OSU on a neutral field in a laugher," but we'll never know. And considering how terrible Alabama's schedule was, and how they only really played good teams in their league (but, if we are generous and say there were five very good teams in the SEC, they only played 2 of the possible 4, both on their home field), it's all speculation.

And we've seen before that "This team would have killed that team" doesn't actually happen all the time.

Think Penn State Miami in the 80s; think USC-Texas (everyone thought USC would win); think Boise v. Oklahoma; Florida v. Ohio State. Without enough games to play sufficient OOC games, we just can't accurately assess how good a team is. And that's why having two teams from the SEC West is a joke: we can suspect these two teams were the best, but we can never know.

 

[tzznandrew]

Texas was horrible this year. A&M as well. Mizzou; PU. Oklahoma lost their top RB and AA WR before Bedlam. K State got waxed by Arky; who was an afterthought in the SEC.

Arkansas was hardly an afterthought. They finished in the top 5-6 nationally.

Alabama beat a paper-tiger Penn State; they beat Arkansas at home; they beat a bunch of nobodies in the SEC West and didn't play Georgia or South Carolina. They're schedule was a joke.

At least, with OSU, there were more conference games so there weren't as many crap teams on it. Alabama had a better loss, and a win (Arkansas) better than any of OSU, but OSU had the next 5 good wins (Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas, KState, and perhaps Mizzou) before Alabama's win at Auburn registers.

Whatever, we can argue all we want--we're not going to change each other's mind. Some sort of tournament would be best. It won't happen, but I'd like to see them use the BCS and select 16 teams: every conference winner, and then the next highest ranked BCS teams. Seed by BCS ranking. Have round one at the home site of the higher ranked team.

Alabama would clearly be in, and have likely played OSU at a neutral site. If it ended up LSU-Bama in the title game: great. Most people don't begrudge the BE for getting 3 out of 4 in the Final Four--but they would have if the NCAA selected 3 of 4.

 

[champs99and04]

If the two best teams are from the SEC and earn their way to the title game, great. But under the current system it is completely unfair to have a non-conference winner in the title game, regardless of how dominant the SEC has been. The BCS is an embarassment.