Tuesday, December 1, 2009

BCS worked this year?


Dennis Dodd of CBSSportsline.com had an interesting article how this is the one of the first years BCS lucked out. With there being two Big Conference Power Houses that will be undefeated at the end of the year and most other BCS bowl team undefeated mid majors, College Football caught a break.
I have a different plan to try to fix College Football rankings and maybe not have to get rid of BCS all together.
"We beat Cal when they were ranked 4!" College Football is heavily based on its ranking human ranking system. Although BCS is a computer ranking it is largely based on people's judgments using the AP and Coaches Poll. The problem with these rankings is that wins team's get early in the year may not be as strong as they seem. Once teams get ranked higher for beating these overrated teams they receive high rankings and will never drop unless they lose themselves. For instance, when Oregon beat #4 Cal 42-3, Oregon seemed as if they may be one of the best teams in the country and they jumped up the rankings. Now it looks as though maybe that win is not as strong as it once looked with Cal struggling at the end of the year. I believe many 1 and 2 loss teams are rooted at the top by supposed "big wins" that really are not that impressive. What I propose is that AP and Coaches Poll do not come out with rankings until at least Week 4 of games. This would make every win early have the right respect after seeing how the teams fair against other teams. With this new ranking teams would not be locked at the top or bottom for wins that may be as good for a "bad win" or be punished as much for a "bad loss". While it is impossible for preseason sites and SI to come up with their own rankings, the polls that decide BCS games should not come out until later in the season. This will be a lot like how the NCAA tournament field is not decided until after the season.

BUT THAT'S JUST MY TWO CENTS FROM THE NOSE BLEEDS!!

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