boise state actually finishes 10th thanks to appalachian state

[rkell87]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...auses-a-BCS-computer-glitch-?urn=ncaaf-292864


more reasons the bcs is a sham

 

[SaltwaterServr]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...auses-a-BCS-computer-glitch-?urn=ncaaf-292864


more reasons the bcs is a sham

The last bowl game I watched was Texas/USC. That was also the first one I watched since Mike Vick was in college. I refuse to watch another until there is a playoff system in place.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

The dirty secret is that the chaos and shenanigans is exactly what they want.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

The dirty secret is that the chaos and shenanigans is exactly what they want.

It's plenty dirty but it aint exactly no big secret.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

It's plenty dirty but it aint exactly no big secret.

The secret is that overall the product isnt great overall and less people would watch if they had the right system.


Sort of like the old thing where half of Howard Sterns listeners were people who hated him

 

[YosemiteSam]

Greater than 95% of college football is an extremely poor product. The BCS keeps the ins in and the outs out and the money pouring in to the pockets they want it to pour into. There is a reason most of the algorithms used by the BCS are closely guarded secrets. It's because there is no secret at all. They can alter it at any point to rank one team higher than another for any (read money) purpose.

I ask. What is the point in keeping the algorithm a secret? There is only one. If they alter it to affect the standings, nobody can call them out on it, because nobody could know.

 

[casmith07]

Boise State lost to Nevada. Surely you don't think they deserved to remain Top 10. You can't even win your conference and you want a BCS Bowl? Give me a break.

 

[jimmy40]

Boise State lost to Nevada. Surely you don't think they deserved to remain Top 10. You can't even win your conference and you want a BCS Bowl? Give me a break.

Why not? Some teams have gone to the championship game after not winning their conference.

 

[tko112204]

Greater than 95% of college football is an extremely poor product. The BCS keeps the ins in and the outs out and the money pouring in to the pockets they want it to pour into. There is a reason most of the algorithms used by the BCS are closely guarded secrets. It's because there is no secret at all. They can alter it at any point to rank one team higher than another for any (read money) purpose.

I ask. What is the point in keeping the algorithm a secret? There is only one. If they alter it to affect the standings, nobody can call them out on it, because nobody could know.

Do you wear the tin-foil hat all the time?

 

[YosemiteSam]

Do you wear the tin-foil hat all the time?

You and your rainbow colored rubber skirt need to find another place to play. We hate you here.

 

[DFWJC]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...auses-a-BCS-computer-glitch-?urn=ncaaf-292864


more reasons the bcs is a sham

I think the point to be taken from this is that 5 out of 6 formulas are not public, but it so happens that the one that was public allowed them to find a flaw. This is beside the point of how silly it is that App St would have any nondirect impact on things like this.

So if they were deciding who was #2 and who was getting to play in the BCS Champ Game we would never know if there was a flaw in the input data. It's such a freaking joke and some unbelievably corrupt.

Every year Tim Cowlishaw does is obligatory BCS defense article in the Morning News. It so infuriates me at what a moron he is on this topic that I boycott the paper for a week or more every year.
:laugh2:

Sports Illustrated had a decent article on the topic recently. Talk about pulling the curtain back on the wizard! I knew it was good old boys making backyard deals and padding each others pockets, but I had no idea at just how unimaginably currupt the BCS and bowl sytem really are.

 

[Rogah]

The secret is that overall the product isnt great overall and less people would watch if they had the right system.

You're joking, right? You think fewer people would watch the Orange Bowl and Fiesta Bowl if, for example, the Orange was Stanford versus Auburn and the Fiesta was TCU versus Oregon, with the winners advancing?

Sorry, but I think those above matchups get better ratings and more interest than VA-Tech-Stanford or unranked UConn versus Oklahoma. Plenty of tickets still available for those games. :bang2:

 

[Rogah]

Boise State lost to Nevada. Surely you don't think they deserved to remain Top 10. You can't even win your conference and you want a BCS Bowl? Give me a break.

I'd rather see #10 Boise State than unranked UConn.

 

[Rogah]

I think the point to be taken from this is that 5 out of 6 formulas are not public, but it so happens that the one that was public allowed them to find a flaw. This is beside the point of how silly it is that App St would have any nondirect impact on things like this.

So if they were deciding who was #2 and who was getting to play in the BCS Champ Game we would never know if there was a flaw in the input data. It's such a freaking joke and some unbelievably corrupt.

Every year Tim Cowlishaw does is obligatory BCS defense article in the Morning News. It so infuriates me at what a moron he is on this topic that I boycott the paper for a week or more every year.
:laugh2:

Sports Illustrated had a decent article on the topic recently. Talk about pulling the curtain back on the wizard! I knew it was good old boys making backyard deals and padding each others pockets, but I had no idea at just how unimaginably currupt the BCS and bowl sytem really are.

+1. That article made me sick. But it had 2 interesting observations: (1) Nothing short of an act of Congress or Justice Department investigation will change the BCS, and (2) such a governmental act is actually within the realm of possibility.

 

[tko112204]

You and your rainbow colored rubber skirt need to find another place to play. I hate you here. Because you are obviously smarter than me.

FIFY.