Alex Forrest fixes college football
November 30th, 2005Alex Forrest has proposed a system that will eliminate the ridiculously stupid BCS and crown a true national champion in NCAA football. Check out his thoughts and give him your feedback.
7 Responses to “Alex Forrest fixes college football”
Thanks for the link Tim.
BTW I haven’t seen your thoughts on my plan yet…
Well, I was gonna leave a reply to that on his site, but apparently I need an account? I’ve gotta go somewhere right now, so I can’t do all that right now. I’ll just post it here for the time being:
Hi Alex, this is the first time I’ve been over here, I’m from Tim Ellsworth’s blog. I took a look at your profile and I really liked you up until I read you like Furman. Go GSU Eagles!
Anyway, I agree with Notre Dame being given a free pass. Does anyone actually like them anyway? It seems to me that the BCS folks would still love ND even if the team was full of Nazis. I don’t know why though.
I just don’t understand why I-A College Football can’t just look at their little brother, I-AA. It seems to me that they have a system that works great! Why not eliminate all these problems by using the same format, or one like it. Eliminate all this BCS stuff.
Just wanted to say I love Notre Dame
I don’t.
Tim,
StL post dispatch says that Kurt Warner is going to do a gospel commercial for the StL region during the Super Bowl. The group needs donations. link
I thought the last part was hilarious
Here’s the feedback I gave to Alex over at his blog:
Alex,
Finally, I have a chance to respond. I was thinking about your post this morning and was going to say something similar to what Joel said.
I like the idea for an eight-team playoff, but I’m not sure I agree that those eight teams should necessarily come from the six conferences plus the two play-in games. For example, let’s say the SEC has a particularly strong year. Let’s say Georgia and LSU are both undefeated going into the SEC title game. The loser of that game would be out of the playoff picture.
Meanwhile, let’s say the Big 10 has a weak year, with an 8-2 Michigan team playing a 9-1 Penn State team in the conference championship, which Michigan wins. Under your proposed system, a 9-2 Michigan team would then make the playoffs over a much stronger SEC team with only one loss. I’d hate to see that happen.
My suggestion would be to come up with a system that ranks teams — whether by the writers, the coaches, computer rankings, whatever, and take the top eight teams by that ranking system for a playoff. Yes, you’d hear some griping from the teams ranked ninth and 10th, but if they’re ranked that low, they don’t deserve a shot at the national title anyway. Most likely, the top eight teams in the country would be all the teams that are undefeated or have only one loss. Yes, you’ll get some teams with two losses, but so be it. I’d rather have a team in the playoffs who doesn’t deserve to be there than to leave out a team that does deserve to be there.
I know there are problems with any system, but you’ve done a good job proposing something that’s a heckuva lot better than the BCS.
November 1, 1913 “Knute Rockne helped the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team to beat Army with a score of 35-7 with the innovation of the forward pass.” Christian Almanac by George Grant