BSB’s In-Depth Analysis of the First 11 Games of the Eagles Season

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1. STRI says:

   November 27, 2008 at 11:52 pm

   I have to say something again about the retarded F’ING BCS, the stupidest system for crowning a champion since sports were invented. At this point, I’m starting to think there is some kind of conspiracy where ever year whoever runs the computers that rank the teams intentionally screw it up so there are weeks of reporting on how badly it’s screwed up calling more attention to the national championship game. Right now Alabama is ranked 1, Texas is ranked 2, and Oklahoma is ranked 3, but if Oklahoma wins their last game they will vault past Texas into the number 2 spot and play Alabama for the national championship despite the fact that both Oklahoma and Texas will have the exact same record and Texas BEAT OAKLAHOMA IN THE REGULAR SEASON WHEN THE TWO TEAMS PLAYED HEAD TO HEAD. Normally, when the BCS gets screwed up, it’s because you have two closely ranked teams that didn’t play each other and so you’re relying on things like strength of schedule and win differential to try and pick who plays in the big game, and it’s an inexact science that everyone hates. But this time, the TWO TEAMS ACTUALLY PLAYED EACH OTHER. I know they played each other because I watched the game. Which is the same way that I know that Texas won the game. So how the HELL does the BCS screw that up?!?!? How is it possible??? I’m the first guy to admit that I do not understand the subtle (and obviously brilliant) vageries of the BCS ranking system and the 100,000 variables that they take into account in the algorithm that picks the two teams that play in the national championship game. But here’s what I do understand: when two teams play each other, and one team beats the other, it’s the best system we have for deciding which team is better. No really, it is. I know it seems low tech because it doesn’t take into account who has the best road record out of conference when the weather is over 72 degrees and one of the cheerleaders forgets her pom poms and has to run back into the locker room before the game to get it, but it’s still a pretty good system. You’re just going to have to trust me on this.

   The best part about the utter stupidity of the BCS system is that its stupidity is amazing, shockingly, exceeded by the rationale for the BCS system, which goes something like this. Not having a playoff system means that people will watch the “other” bowl games, thereby generating money for a larger number of schools. Really? REALLY? Let’s see here. There are 7-8 bowl games that people watch and give a SH*t about: cotton, rose, sugar, fiesta, orange, and national championship game. You don’t think an 8 team playoff, which the ENTIRE college football watching universe wants would generate more money than have those 8 bowl games played independent of each other? Because I really think that it would.

   How upset am I by the BCS? Let’s just put it this way. Thanks to our friends at google, I just learned that former SEC commissioner Roy Kramer invented the BCS. I’m going to find out if good ole Roy has a daughter, then I’m going to pose as a nice guy to get her to fall for me and do terrible, unforgiveable, things to her and post them on my new website: http://www.bcs.com

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