The spin from all the Big-10 homers here is unreal but this takes the cake. Yours is the conference who REFUSES to do ANY of the 5 following things:
1. Add a 12th team.
2. Drop one to make an even 10.
3. Play a CCG.
4. Make a revolving 9 game conference schedule so you only play 3 OOC games.
5. Vote for a playoff or +1 system.
Instead, you INSIST on having 4 OOC games, 3 of which you DEMAND must take place at home, all the while hiding behind the excuse of currently having an odd number of teams within your own conference which makes playing more conference games "impossible". Bull shit.
Your conference is a total fraud and has been the biggest beneficiary from the current BCS arrangement. It's no wonder why your greedy commissioners continue to do nothing about improving the college game for the rest of us.
Oregon State was overwhelmed going into Happy Valley. Do you really believe the results would be the same if they played again?
OSU played a great game that night against USC. I don't know if you've seen Jacquizz Rodgers, but the kid can flat out play. I don't know why everyone is acting like Oregon State is Stanford of last year or something.
No matter what the only viable answer is a playoff, not only will it determine the best team on the field but if their was a playoff system teams wouldn't be as scared to lose a game and therefore we should get some better non-confrence games. I love the way hoops has the ACC Big 10 challenge, I wish football would do something similar. IMHO the NCAA should have some control of the schedules. Penn St. vs Coastal Carolina is insane if you ask me.
yea i know we suck this year but michigan usaually hammers those sec teams like last year they had a bad year for mich and they still beat a always over rated florida teams bullets fly both ways the teams in the big ten are not no more over rated then any other teams on any given year. i can name 10 teams that meet your overated criteria this year. the big ten is a money conference .
I like the playoff idea myself.
The million dollar question is, what would the playoff format be?
If you make it the top 8 teams, the obvious format would be seed the top eight teams 1-8.
Three weeks would be needed to execute an eight team playoff.
Third week in December:
#1 seed plays #8 seed
#2 seed plays #7 seed
#3 seed plays #6 seed
#4 seed plays #5 seed
Fourth week in December:
#1 #8 game winner v. #4 #5 game winner
#2 #7 game winner v. #3 #6 game winner
First week in January
NCS game pitting the last two teams standing.
This works for me, but what needs to be determined is who or what determines the top eight teams that participate in said playoffs.
This is still not a perfect idea, because I'm going to have to listen to the ninth ranked team bitch for a month or two on how they got screwed...........
WHILE THE POINT YOU MAKE HAS VALIDITY.ALMOST ANY BIG TEN TEAM THAT GOES UNDEFEATED HAS A GREAT CHANCE TO BE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME .
BUT YOUR LACK OF OBJECTIVITY AND UNINTELLIGENT COMMENTS
Their conference structure is an absolute joke where every single teams feasts on 4 pathetic OOC opponents, 3 of which are at home. They then have an arbitrary conference schedule where traditonal top programs like OSU, UM, and PSU somehow avoid playing the others
MAKE PEOPLE LIKE ME TUNE YOU OUT..
PENN ST HAS PLAYED BOTH THOSE TEAMS AND ALSO PLAYED ILL, WISC(2 OTHER TEAMS THAT WERE RATED HIGH IN THE PRESEASON)I BELIEVE THEY PLAY MICH AND OSU EVERY YR..I KNOW OSU PLAYS MICH EVERY YR IN THE LAST GAME OF THE SEASON..
PERHAPS IF YOU STOP TALKING BLINDLY AND TOSSING OUT A BUNCH OF SHIT LIKE THE ABOVE...PEOPLE WILL TAKE YOUR VALID POINTS SERIOUSLY
BUT YOUR LACK OF OBJECTIVITY AND UNINTELLIGENT COMMENTS
Their conference structure is an absolute joke where every single teams feasts on 4 pathetic OOC opponents, 3 of which are at home. They then have an arbitrary conference schedule where traditonal top programs like OSU, UM, and PSU somehow avoid playing the others
MAKE PEOPLE LIKE ME TUNE YOU OUT..
PENN ST HAS PLAYED BOTH THOSE TEAMS AND ALSO PLAYED ILL, WISC(2 OTHER TEAMS THAT WERE RATED HIGH IN THE PRESEASON)I BELIEVE THEY PLAY MICH AND OSU EVERY YR..I KNOW OSU PLAYS MICH EVERY YR IN THE LAST GAME OF THE SEASON..
PERHAPS IF YOU STOP TALKING BLINDLY AND TOSSING OUT A BUNCH OF SHIT LIKE THE ABOVE...PEOPLE WILL TAKE YOUR VALID POINTS SERIOUSLY
remember when big 10's Penn State dumped on the Pac 10's Oregon State??... yet u sit there and cry about how they play weak non conference schedules....im almost positive the 80% of the first three weeks of the season is blow outs by teams in BCS conferences over crap teams... then Oregon State beats USC like 2 weeks later... there is nothing you can do to change it.... Penn State is ranked where they should be and why are you so anti big ten??...by the way i think penn state would beat Bama anyway
Lets strighten a couple of the halth truths here. Do 5 minutes of research and you'll see that the big 10 tried to add Notre Dame as its 12th team in 1999. While Notre Dame faculty senate voted yes, the Notre Dame board of trusties decided against joining the big 10. And Big 10 bylaws state that any expansion has to be with a school in big 10 country. So they can't just go out and add any school. It would have to be schools like ND, Rutgers, Syracuse, Iowa State, W. Vir, or Pitt. And lets be honest, if any of those schools besides Notre Dame where to join than you would just say they added another easy win to the schedule.
As far as your idea that the big 10 is what stands in the way of a 4 team playoff, I got news for you. earlier this year when the conference commisoners met the only ones that supported the idea of the +1 were the SEC and the ACC commish. The other 4, (Pac 10, Big 10, Big East, and Big 12) did not. So don't say its the big 10's fault. In fact you were outvoted 4-2.
And by the way I'm still waiting for an answer to the question I've previously posted two times now.
The conference that does it right is the Pac-10. no playoff, full round-robin schedule. Just because the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 expand their conference, why should any of the others? Those conferences went for the money, and should take the risk of making the title game.
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Thank God the pathetic Big-10 conference isn't going to ruin yet another National Championship game this year.
The Big-10 is consistenly the 2nd worst BCS conference year after year after year.
They wouldn' even have a BCS team if it weren't for their fraudulent scheduling with 4 OOC games (3 of which are at home) and 8 arbitrary conference games where the top teams usually avoid one another.
Big-10 = biggest fraud of a BCS conference and they should be kicked-out of the BCS entirely.
Pathetic.
Thank God the pathetic Big-10 conference isn't going to ruin yet another National Championship game this year.
The Big-10 is consistenly the 2nd worst BCS conference year after year after year.
They wouldn' even have a BCS team if it weren't for their fraudulent scheduling with 4 OOC games (3 of which are at home) and 8 arbitrary conference games where the top teams usually avoid one another.
Big-10 = biggest fraud of a BCS conference and they should be kicked-out of the BCS entirely.
Pathetic.
