College Football

[vbird53]

It all comes back to the need for an 8 or 16 team single-elimination play-off tournament. Take your 6 BCS conference champions and fill out the remainder of the field with the BCS rankings. It would be very difficult to leave out an undefeated non-BCS team in such a format. If they lose in the tournament, then so be it, but they will have an equal opportunity in such a scenerio.

Yup. 8 teams are enough. Too many games and injuries may have more to do with the eventual champion than anything. Probably pretty easy to say that if you're #9, you haven't done what was needed to be mentioned with #1 and #2.

They already take 10 teams into the BCS bowl system (4 bowls and the NC). Why would they decrease the number to 8?

[ShockTalk]

It all comes back to the need for an 8 or 16 team single-elimination play-off tournament. Take your 6 BCS conference champions and fill out the remainder of the field with the BCS rankings. It would be very difficult to leave out an undefeated non-BCS team in such a format. If they lose in the tournament, then so be it, but they will have an equal opportunity in such a scenerio.

Yup. 8 teams are enough. Too many games and injuries may have more to do with the eventual champion than anything. Probably pretty easy to say that if you're #9, you haven't done what was needed to be mentioned with #1 and #2.

They already take 10 teams into the BCS bowl system (4 bowls and the NC). Why would they decrease the number to 8?

Under the current system, it's just one game for each team. In an 8 team playoff, the final 2 teams would have played 3 games, probably over a 4 week period.

[vbird53]

Pretty solid opening weekend for the non-AQs:

Fresno St. beat Cincinnati
TCU beat Oregon St.
Boise St. beat Virginia Tech
BYU over Washington
Utah over Pitt

Not to mention, the close but no call:
Hawaii close to USC
Utah St. close to OU
Rice played with Texas
SMU close to Tex Tech
Navy fell apart in the redzone against overmatched Maryland

Plus:
NDSU over Kansas
Jacksonville St. over Ole Miss

[martymoose]

Just trying to decide how much money to put on Georga Tech to cover the 13.5 spread against KU this weekend... That's pretty much a "sure thing", right?