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Even Barry Alvarez finally admits it publicly
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<blockquote data-quote="Eight" data-source="post: 2601442" data-attributes="member: 73370"><p>wexahu, i agree with you that there is no one solution to this that will make all college football fans, but don't agree why the main reason the system can't work.</p><p></p><p>there has always been bias in picking a national champion at this level of college football from the start. first, it was by poll and didn't include bowl game results. </p><p></p><p>then it was polls including bowl game results followed by the bcs and the plus one</p><p></p><p>each variation since the inclusion of the bowl games has been driven by the conferences and has been gerrymandered as to minimize the damage to the bowls. </p><p></p><p>one thing that became quite obvious with just the plus one was any type of play-off structure was going to do significant damage to the bowls.</p><p></p><p>quite frankly there is no logical explanation for ditching the computers and putting in the committee that was chosen. there is no logical explanation why you would only pick 4 teams out of 5 conferences with no clear means to identify the 4 best teams.</p><p></p><p>we have ended up with this rube goldberg methodology of selecting teams because college football at this level is driven by the 5 conferences and they are driven by espn. espn also owns the broadcast rights to most of the bowl games and the more teams taken out of the bowl pool the more damage done to the bowls ratings.</p><p></p><p>additionally, espn wants the fake drama of the [ deposit from a bull that looks like Art Briles ] weekly show discussing the rankings when we all know the only ranking that matters is the last one. espn doesn't give a [ Finebaum ] who is watching on saturday as that is fairly consistent. they want a story line they can hammer away for those 6 other days and this method provides that to them. </p><p></p><p>if we had 5 automatics and the top 3 qualifiers that crushes the big bowls and has fans focusing only on the weekend results and not the talking heads on espn. there is money to be made by espn from the chaos and that is the single biggest factor in this entire thing.</p><p></p><p>it was never about building the best system, it was how do we make the most money and do the least amount of damage to the institutional status quo of college football</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eight, post: 2601442, member: 73370"] wexahu, i agree with you that there is no one solution to this that will make all college football fans, but don't agree why the main reason the system can't work. there has always been bias in picking a national champion at this level of college football from the start. first, it was by poll and didn't include bowl game results. then it was polls including bowl game results followed by the bcs and the plus one each variation since the inclusion of the bowl games has been driven by the conferences and has been gerrymandered as to minimize the damage to the bowls. one thing that became quite obvious with just the plus one was any type of play-off structure was going to do significant damage to the bowls. quite frankly there is no logical explanation for ditching the computers and putting in the committee that was chosen. there is no logical explanation why you would only pick 4 teams out of 5 conferences with no clear means to identify the 4 best teams. we have ended up with this rube goldberg methodology of selecting teams because college football at this level is driven by the 5 conferences and they are driven by espn. espn also owns the broadcast rights to most of the bowl games and the more teams taken out of the bowl pool the more damage done to the bowls ratings. additionally, espn wants the fake drama of the [ deposit from a bull that looks like Art Briles ] weekly show discussing the rankings when we all know the only ranking that matters is the last one. espn doesn't give a [ Finebaum ] who is watching on saturday as that is fairly consistent. they want a story line they can hammer away for those 6 other days and this method provides that to them. if we had 5 automatics and the top 3 qualifiers that crushes the big bowls and has fans focusing only on the weekend results and not the talking heads on espn. there is money to be made by espn from the chaos and that is the single biggest factor in this entire thing. it was never about building the best system, it was how do we make the most money and do the least amount of damage to the institutional status quo of college football [/QUOTE]
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