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Originally Posted by skar
ND is on its way back. Good recruiting class coming up.
Kelly knows how to win.
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On their way back to what?
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Originally Posted by Dr Jkel
The new super conferences are coming and then you will basically have 64 teams fighting it out from 4 conferences......Do you really think that each conference will have the 64 best schools? Not even close.....SEE SEC this year....Ole Miss, Auburn, Miss St, Ole Miss.....Sure some of them have not lost...YET
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When I say I hope for a 64 team feild of 4 conferences (which seems much less likely now) I mean good teams. Some of those teams at least will be good every once in a while. Go back 20 years. If they haven't spent a certain amount of weeks ranked then their out.
But ALL conferences knock each other out of the ranking by the end for the most part. Hard for a conference to keep a bunch of ranked teams because they beat each other out. The Big 12 is 23-2 right now. Had Missou not lost to Az St. they would have 6 ranked teams. As it is right now half the conference is ranked. But they all have to play each other and knock each other out. So does the Big 10 (lmao at what is the big 10 and big 12) SEC, PAC 100 and the rest.
When I talk 16 team conferences, I would leave out the Vanderbilts and Baylors of the feild. If Kentuky couldn't play basketball I'd leave them out too. Iowa St. got no reason to be. These schools could be good if they wanted but won't invest in theri programs. They have a free Fing ride and they know it. I could come up with 64 schools who would be a good feild.
There is a BIG difference between North Texas or East Illinios as opposed to Syracuse and Miss St.
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Originally Posted by JUISSD
College football has ALWAYS been about winning your conference. Before the BCS it was probably the most important thing. There are no biased polls to decide the winner, it was always decided on the field, and that's what mattered to teams.
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The BCS is the best thing to happen to college football EVER.
Not as good as it should be, but better than it was before.
You see, the reason college football turns so many people off and why I wouldn't even watch it if OU wasn't a national power is because it's was NEVER played off on the feild. The BCS got me watching again. Even before OU got good again.
Before the BCS the number 1 team would just play a mid ranked team and get voted number one anyway. Only way for number 2 to win was to hope the number 1 team got upset.
So last year Auburn would have probably played a 12th ranked Cincinati team and Oregon play someone else. Oregon would have never had the chance to play them and would have to HOPE Auburn got upset to a crappy team. The year before I gaurantee Alabama would have played the 13th ranked Penn St. (Ohio St. was #10 and would have been in the Rose Bowl) and Texas would have been in the orange bowl likely playing 14th ranked Miami and hoping Bama would get upset by a shity team.
How bout this. PERFECT example..... #1 Ohio St. would have played #7 USC in the Rose bowl (given the Pac 10 and Big 10 Rose Bowl tie in) and LSU would not have won the NC because they'd have been playing in the cotton bowl or something.
So, to me, until something better comes along, the BCS is FAR SUPERIOR to what it used to be.