LSU lost to Arkansas in "overtime" yesterday (scare quotes are because the college overtime system is bizarre), becoming the latest highly-ranked team to lose to an unranked opponent. This throws the BCS championship system into chaos for the Nth time this season-- by the end of the weekend, at least three of the top ten teams will have lost, and there are only two undefeated teams left. There's never been more confusion about who is the best team in college football.
Boy, if only there were some way to settle this. I mean, imagine if you could get, say, the top eight teams together somehow, and have them play each other, to determine which team was the best? Man, that would be cool.
But that's just crazy talk...
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Eight isn't enough. There are definitely more than 8 teams this year that could win a tourney. I liked the days before the BCS stuff. Just play and go to you bowl. And argue about later.
Yeah. At least back in the day no one was pretending to have a system that gave you "The Champion".
And I'm not just saying that because Tennessee got a bowl almost every year, being big-spending fans that poured money into New Orleans for a whole week...
Hawaii vs. Kansas for the national championship!!!
You might find this interesting:
http://www.sciencenewsdaily.org/story-114876287.html
I'm an Auburn student, and a big source of grocery money for me every fall is selling my student ticket for the big games, but our terrible record this season has killed the prices for student tickets...they're not even going for a quarter of what they were the last time we played the Iron Bowl at home. I couldn't believe the news about the LSU upset yesterday!
# 3 | RPM | November 24, 2007 11:06 AM
Hawaii vs. Kansas for the national championship!!!
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Poor Hawaii. The way things are set up a team that has lost twice will make the BCS Championship Game before Hawaii gets in, even if Hawaii beats Washington next weekend and goes undefeated for the season.
RPM has now doomed both Kansas and Hawaii. They'll both lose their next games. Since KU is playing Missouri, this is not impossible. That's a rivalry that goes all the way back *before* the Big 8.
MKK
FIRE LES MILES AND THE WHOLE COACHING STAFF TOO MUCH TALENT FOR THIS TYPE OF SLOPPY PLAY AND BY THE WAY HURRY AND TAKE MATT FLYNN HE HAS SUCKED ALL YEAR LONG SO LONFG LES WE WONT MISS YOU AT ALL!!
Mary Kay--
Looks like you're right about RPM dooming Kansas, at any right. 21-0 Mizzou early in the 3rd ...
A tournament is a great way to decide a champion if you're actually interested in finding out which team is the best. But it seems like such a simple solution to implement that I have to go back and examine the assumptions that led us to propose a tournament. I suspect the faulty assumption has to do with what will optimize the amount of interest in college football. When people suggest a tournament, they're assuming that an unambiguous champion will increase interest in college football. But with an unambiguous champion you've cut short every "what if" scenario. There's a lot more "what if" for discussion than acutal games. Even better: the "what ifs" never resolve, so you can keep talking about them. There will always be more hype, controversy, heated debate, and general interest when the championship match-up comes from the BCS oracle.
Scott: Yup. Missouri beat Kansas. Of course that 4th quarter was dammed exciting and Kansas very nearly pulled it out, but it's yet another upset for the #2 team.
MKK