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The National Championship Issue: BCS Conclusions
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Saturday, August 12, 2006. So what have we learned? Let's take a look at a compilation of who would've been in the National Championship game each year according to each version. (Tan teams are official, dark tan teams are projections that I'm 100% certain of mathematically, and the green teams with the * are projections I'm confident calling but not certain of mathematically.). Wait a minute - we're going to judge the effectiveness of all five versions of the BCS by only looking at 2 out of 10 years?
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The National Championship Issue: Final Thoughts
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Sunday, February 12, 2012. Back when I started this site in 2007, my only thought was to present a comparison of the different versions of the BCS, since the system went through 5 changes in its first 8 seasons. I was curious to see what the national championship could have been if a few small variables had changed, and my conclusion. At the beginning of the 2010 season. And that an evolved playoff. But I've said it before, moreso in the last two seasons, that there's more to college football than just t...
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The National Championship Issue: Fair Competition IV: the Big Picture
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Sunday, May 13, 2007. Fair Competition IV: the Big Picture. 8220;It’s not fair that most of the teams don't have any chance. At the championship before the season even starts”. 8220;The unfairness is because of the bias of the voters,. Not the system - you can't have it both ways”. Why does the pro-playoff side need and want the current ranking system? Nope Would most people have accepted a Utah-Boise State matchup for the national title in 2008? The Mountain West Conference wants the BCS to do what?
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The National Championship Issue: The Arguments For & Against a DI-A College Football Playoff
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009. The Arguments For and Against a DI-A College Football Playoff. Oh, if it were that simple. For easy reference, arguments that support a playoff are in green. And those against a playoff are in red. 8220;Championships are clear-cut and objective”. 8220;Championships are for the best, even if that’s subjective”. How mythical do you want your champion to be? What is the overall goal or purpose of any competition or sport? Achieving Fairness in Competition. There are advantages and d...
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The National Championship Issue: Fair Competition II: On the Field
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Sunday, May 13, 2007. Fair Competition II: On the Field. 8220;A playoff would settle things on the field”. 8220;Any team can beat any other team on any given day”. The pro-playoff side says no, the anti-playoff side says yes. The main argument that the anti-playoff side uses to build up this boundary wall between the objective game and the subjective season is the upset. For instance, if 1-3 Stanford beats 4-0 USC, does that mean that the Cardinal are better than the Trojans? At Sunday, May 13, 2007.
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The National Championship Issue: 2010 Kickoff: Just the games, Ma'am. Just the games.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010. 2010 Kickoff: Just the games, Ma'am. Just the games. By this time in the season, I've usually posted my thoughts on the off-season, some predictions on how things will end up, what the storylines of the year will be, and my picks for the first week of games. But I'm doing something different this year. That's why this long weekend, for the first round of contests, I'm going to try to ignore everything except the games. In general, no big-picture analysis. How Far We've Come.
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The National Championship Issue: Money. Money money money
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Sunday, May 13, 2007. Money Money money money. 8220;A playoff would make a ton more money than the BCS does”. 8220;What do you care? 8220;That’s theoretical – there’s no proof” &. 8220;College football already makes a ton of money”. Two simple reasons – first, how many people do you know who either benefit monetarily from college football currently not having a playoff or would benefit monetarily from college football instituting a playoff? 8220;The bowls are just a way for the rich to get richer”. If th...
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The National Championship Issue: Fair Competition III: Making Meaning
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Sunday, May 13, 2007. Fair Competition III: Making Meaning. Let’s jump on another merry-go-round, shall we? Everything seems hunky-dory, right? Finally something both sides can agree on! Yeah, right. The fighting starts when the pro-playoff side tries to tack their playoff on. As we’ve seen, both sides are adept at knocking each other down. Here’s how they attempt to do it in this realm. (Let’s start with the previous arguments, just to get up a head of steam…). 8220;So the regular season is devalued,.
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The National Championship Issue: the Evolved Playoff
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Sunday, November 25, 2007. The concept is simple:. A Playoff the Polls = the Evolved Playoff. Step 1: Setup a regular playoff bracket, #1 vs #16, #2, vs #15, etc. Or #1 vs #8, #1 vs #32 – it works with any amount of teams). Step 2: Play the games. Step 3: Re-rank the teams. The #1 team lost? Fine, they deserve to drop in the rankings. Do they deserve to drop out of the playoff? No, probably not. But losing just earned them a harder matchup in the next round. Here’s why the Evolved Playoff works. Okay Big...
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The National Championship Issue: It's Articles Like These...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012. It's Articles Like These. That give sports journalism a bad name. Look, Deford is basically an institution and has written a ton of interesting, insightful pieces over his many years. But there's just something about the BCS that turns normally rational, commendable sportswriters into foaming-at-the-mouth zealots. The poster child for this when it comes to the BCS is Dan Wetzel, who writes so prolifically that he's bound to throw out some less than stellar work. It's a game pla...
