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PLAY-offs?!?!?! (/jim_mora)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by HackyMcHack, Dec 3, 2006.

  1. HackyMcHack

    HackyMcHack Member

    (And this isn't a Vick thread, BTW....)

    Suppose we had a four-team playoff for the national championship. Ohio State is in. Michigan is in. Florida is in.

    But which team gets lucky spot No. 4?

    --LSU? Nope, didn't make its conference championship game (but would have a good argument).

    --Wisconsin? Nope, not with the BCS' two-school-per-conference limit.

    --USC? Nope, not with two losses.

    --What does that leave us with? Boise State?

    Discuss....
     
  2. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    if lsu is disqualified for not making its conference championship game, why does michigan get in for finishing second in its conference that doesn't have a round-robin or a championship game?

    so, i think we're left with ohio state, florida, boise state and WHO?
     
  3. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Twenty-four teams (that way nobody can complain they were unfairly left out). And no bowls. Play games at home sites except for the championship game, which can rotate among the old BCS sites.
     
  4. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    Wake Forest!!

    Seriously though, I'd go with Louisville. Big East Champ, or Oklahoma, Big 12.
     
  5. dawgpounddiehard

    dawgpounddiehard Active Member

    Louisville.

    This is what makes me so flabbergasted about this joke that is minor league football... why is no one giving Louisville credit? One loss & won the conference just like Florida.
     
  6. Pancamo

    Pancamo Active Member

    LSU finished THIRD in the SEC West. Tigers deserve the Poulan Weedeater Bowl.
     
  7. spnited

    spnited Active Member


    24 teams? Why play a regular season?

    8 teams will work: 6 BCS league champs, 2 at-large.
     
  8. tyler durden 71351

    tyler durden 71351 Active Member

    WHAT! Brother, please...
     
  9. Pancamo

    Pancamo Active Member

    Arkansas
    Auburn
    LSU

    Auburn beat LSU head to head.


    3rd place in the West.
     
  10. Chuck~Taylor

    Chuck~Taylor Active Member

    Exactly. Just keep it short and sweet.
     
  11. tyler durden 71351

    tyler durden 71351 Active Member

    Oh, I'm not arguing with the standings, I'm just saying that LSU deserves more than the Weedeater Bowl. The consensus is they're the second-best team in the SEC, despite what the standings say.
     
  12. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Not fair to the Boise States, Wisconsins and Arkansases of the world, given that one of the at-larges will almost always go to a none-too-deserving Notre Dame side just because it's Notre Dame. And the MAC can produce a team or two which could make a legitimate run to the quarterfinals every so often. The BCS leagues ain't all they're cracked up to be --- see also this year's ACC.

    It needs to be bigger than the playoffs for the lower divisions. Besides, I can easily picture a scenario in which a "ninth-best" or lower team gets a nice December run going --- a team like Rutgers could fill that bill very nicely.
     
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