An insightful and eye-opening bcs breakdown

[MahxFahn]

The BCS is not an organization. It doesn’t have a president or a vice president or keys to the executive washroom. In fact, the BCS only has one full-time employee – Bill Hancock, BCS Administrator.................The BCS is big, the BCS is important and the fact that the BCS only has one full-time employee is its first flaw.

Yikes!

The BCS standings are compiled from the results of two human polls (Harris Interactive and Coaches’ Polls) and six computer ranking systems (Anderson/Hester, Billingsley Report, Colley Matrix, Massey, Sagarin, and Wolfe).

Here is a link to sign a petition to make all the voting in the human polls public and not secret.............................................. Free The Ballots Petition
Read more from this article How to Save the BCS

 

[castawaygator]

this is a good read, but i am not sure the BCS is worth saving if we can get a playoff setup

 

[MahxFahn]

True but until that happens, and I don't see it happening by next season, this is all we got.

 

[Burning_BLUE_and_ORANGE]

the problem with playoff is there would be too many games and if a team "clinches the playoffs" it takes out the excitement of some games because the stars rest and the backups play and it would not matter who won.

 

[GoonSquad]

The BCS is not a good system whatsoever. I really believe in the playoffs like FCS

 

[Escambia94]

We could use a hybrid system. Use polls to seed the teams up through week 11. Play 4 rounds of playoffs in the Sweet 16. If you don't make the playoffs, you get 11 regular season games plus some of those teams get a bowl game in December. If you win in the playoffs, you could play up to 15 games in a season. The bad thing is that some bowl games would not get top 8 teams to play there, because they would be in the playoff bowls. The playoff bowls would rotate similar to the current BCS rotation. The non-championship bowls could have some freedom to set up desirable matchups between teams that normally don't get into bowl games--sort of a spread the wealth system.

 

[MahxFahn]

Unfortunatly, it's all about the money and not about the game anymore......
From an article on 11.03.08 in SportsBusiness Journal, BCS seeks big bump from Fox

The BCS entered exclusive negotiations with Fox last week, seeking as much as a 60 percent increase in its rights fee, according to several media and college sources.
That means, based on the BCS’s opening bid, that Fox would have to pay an average of $132 million a year if the network wants to keep the rights to its four BCS bowl games. Negotiations are expected to continue for at least another week to 10 days, sources said. Their current agreement expires in January 2010.

The way I read it ruport murdoch isn't going to want to part w/ that much moola.

Even though the BCS could wind up accepting a bid lower than the six-year, $800 million it sought last week, industry analysts say the steep price suggests that the BCS wants to take its games to the open market, where ABC/ESPN is poised to bid.

I think we might be stuck w/ this puppy for a while longer.:gun_bandana:

 

[O-town Gator]

Unfortunatly, it's all about the money and not about the game anymore......
From an article on 11.03.08 in SportsBusiness Journal, BCS seeks big bump from Fox

And that's why the BCS sucks. Never mind what's right for college football and maintaining the integrity of the sport - the Gordon Gekko "greed is good" mentality drives this bogus system.

 

[O-town Gator]

AND - naturally the head of this sham called the BCS is from a Pac-10 school. He opposes a playoff, probably because he doesn't want anybody anybody compomising their (and the Big Ten's) beloved Rose Bowl: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3697109