What The BCS Got Right And Wrong
by ccmachine on Jan 13, 2012 1:38 AM CST
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PrintThe near rock bottom 14.0 rating that the BCS Championship Game drew Monday night actually wasn't the low point of the bowl season for the much ridiculed system that governs college football. We'll get to that point in just a minute but before we do I might also put out there that watching Nick Saban and his Alabama Crimson Tide squad hoist the Coaches' Trophy wasn't the high point for the BCS either. That's not to say that the system did everything wrong because that just isn't the case. However, if we truly wanted to evaluate the way things are done we have to compare what went right and wrong.
Right - The Rose Bowl: Sticking with a long standing tradition the Pac12 and Big 10 champions faced off against each other and slugged it out Robert Griffin style. They say that defense wins championships but offense sells tickets. People may have been tuning out of the championship game but they were definitely tuning into the Rose Bowl. With 83 points scored and a combined 1,129 yards of offense the only people who were disappointed at the end of this game were Wisconsin fans.
Wrong - The Sugar Bowl: The game actually ended the excitement of overtime and a shade of controversy over a questionable replay decision. However, at the end of the day we were watching the #17 team in the country play #13 while #7 played #11 in the Cotton Bowl.
Right - The Fiesta Bowl: It was the Rose Bowl remix and the best part is that it was all on the same night. Defenses were just cosmetic in this game and kickers were a commodity while the offenses were unstoppable. For a good office water cooler debate try to discuss which game was better, the Rose or the Fiesta?
Wrong - The Orange Bowl: Ten touchdowns! The West Virginia Mountaineers scored ten touchdowns on Clemson. For those of you keeping tabs at home, that's the Big East champion over the ACC champion. The Mountaineers were ranked #23 going into that game. With all apologies to Boise State, Southern Miss. and Houston we got to watch West Virginia score ten touchdowns against the ACC champs.
CONFERENCE BOWL RECORDS
- Atlantic Coast 2-6
- Big 12 6-2
- Big East 3-2
- Big Ten 4-6
- Conference USA 4-1
- Independents (FBS) 1-1
- Mid-American 4-1
- Mountain West 2-3
- Pac-12 2-5
- Southeastern 6-3
- Sun Belt 1-2
- Western Athletic 0-3
Wrong - The ACC: The ACC went 2-6 in bowl games this year. Clemson ended the season by losing two of their last three games. The one win was a 38-10 blowout win over Virginia Tech. Both of those teams made it to BCS bowl games and shockingly they both lost. Did you hear that West Virginia scored ten touchdowns on Clemson?
Right - The BCS Championship Game: As much as I hate to admit it, the system got it right. Alabama and LSU were the two best teams in college football this season. Yes, it was a rematch. Yes, it was boring. No, no one else was going to do any better against either of those defenses.
Wrong - The BCS Championship Game: I know, I know! Just hear me out here. Bama and LSU were legitimately the two best teams in the nation but just imagine what we could have had with the four-team plus one format that is currently being thrown around.
Game #1
#1 LSU vs. #4 Stanford
Game #2
#2 Alabama vs. #3 Oklahoma State
BCS Championship Game
Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner
Who wouldn't want to see that happen? Oregon fans need not reply to that question. I'm a firm believer that the end result would have been the same but getting there sure would have been a lot more fun.
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I have to disagree on one point...
but only slightly. I believe that OSU would’ve most definitely put up a TD or two on either of the SEC teams. Yes, their defenses would’ve probably been rocked but at least they would’ve put some nice TDs on the board. I’m actually a believe in this statement – offenses win championships, defenses keep others from winning championships.
interesting take on it
LOSUr St. would have gotten emabrA$$ed big time. Not just because of the talent but also because of the pressure factor of NEVER been THERE
LSU would of had a totally different game plan for them and Bama would have been Bama.
The one thing being a lot older has going for it, most of us older have seen more CFB than most younger people have seen web pages.
the never been there does not hold water
What did OU do in 2000 in their first NC game in over a decade and a half? That right, they won the game. OU, the school, had been there before, but none of the player or coaches had been there. Most of the players were in kindergarten the last time OU won a NC.
The biggest item wrong with the BCS this year was the complete and total fornication by the Espin whore.
Except for the Cotton Bowl I think all the other bowl games were on the Espin’s network and not the regular stations. Stupidest move ever to let Espin control everything. It is at the point that where the media control NCAA D-1 football and it sucks.
The one thing being a lot older has going for it, most of us older have seen more CFB than most younger people have seen web pages.
by scarab on Jan 13, 2012 7:52 AM CST reply actions 2 recs
Oh, so correct
I couldn’t believe how many games were on ESPiN or ESPiN2. Ridiculous. That has to change cause I can only listen to Matt Millen announce so many games…
I try to give Matt Millen credit for at least knowing who Elvis Peacock, Buster Rhymes,
and a host of other great Sooner running backs were, but, phew… his commentary sure seems to mostly be one blinding flash of the obvious after another…
Agreed
about being embarassed big time. I believe that they would’ve lost big but no bigger than LSU lost to Bama. I’m a strong believer that the SEC isn’t all high and mighty…they don’t have great offenses…the low scoring games isn’t all on the defenses being amazing. OSU had an outstanding offense this year and I’m willing to bet they would’ve kept it close for the first half.
Your most likely right.
It would have been interesting to see how Weeden responded to a real pass rush all game long. I doubt Osu’s run game could have produced many yards or slowed the pass rush down. But neither did LSU’s.
The one thing being a lot older has going for it, most of us older have seen more CFB than most younger people have seen web pages.
BCS TV Ratings
I think you got some numbers/information wrong. Reportedly, ESPN’s telecast of the Allstate Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship – Alabama’s 21-0 shutout of LSU — posted a 16.2 fast national household coverage rating, according to Nielsen, representing an average of 16,072,000 households, the second highest of any program in the history in cable television (records go back to 1987). The average of 24,214,000 viewers (P2+) was also second best in cable. It also is ESPN’s second-highest rating of all time. That said, I didn’t watch the game, SEEN IT! OSU, regardless of “opinions”, should have got a shot at LSU as Alabama had already had theirs. With only one lost in the conference with the strongest strength of schedule (and as evidenced by the Bowl Record for the conference), it should have been about the body of work, not the one loss. The rest of the bowl selections…well, just horrible! The BCS system must go!
No, he's right
This was one of the lowest rated if not the lowest bs title game yet. If you talk to most people who aren’t hardcore college football fans you’ll find out they didn’t watch it, even a lot of the hardcore’s didn’t. Mostly because of what you just said, we’d already seen that game.
"I feel sorry for peple who don't drink, when they wake up in the morning thats as good as they are gonna feel all day long." Frank Sinatra
Yes we can throw away the BCS, but nothing will change as long as the NCAA lets the .............
whore Espin run everything.
The one thing being a lot older has going for it, most of us older have seen more CFB than most younger people have seen web pages.
Actually, CC might have overestimated a little
As reported here, it posted an overnight of 13.8. ESPN and some others are trying to spin it as a success (since that’s what ESPiN does) because it was not on public television and was actually highly rated for cable.
At the end of the day, far more people were like you and me…..just not interested.
"Gentlemen we must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin
by leatherneck1061 on Jan 13, 2012 10:21 PM CST up reply actions
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