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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
No it hasn't.
And if you are referring to the debate of conference ranking a playoff is irrelevant.
If you are referring to determining a NC, I think we have the best system out there. If you want to be in the game, run the table. If not, you roll the dice.
Folks enjoy the football, enjoy the conference championships and the dozens of bowl games, don't put some much on who the NC is.
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The current system is about as bad as it gets as not only does it not give us a definitive champion it already has diminished the bowls. The bowls used to have a lot of tradition behind them. i.e. Big Ten vs. Pac 10 in Rose Bowl. Now they are randomly assigned based on who is in the BCS, who is the Championship game etc.
The problem with saying run the table is that it doesn't work. Boise St. has shown that, Hawaii will show it this year and more importantly Auburn has shown it. Also when nobody runs the table you end up with arbitrary rankings and questionable computer polls to determine who is best. Even when common sense says a team should make it that is thrown out the door. (i.e. USC clearly being the best team in the country and being left out for Oklahoma and LSU).
Also under this current system teams like West Virginia are rewarded for playing is a super easy Big East while LSU and USC who are both better teams get punished for playing against legitimate foes. Under this system there is no rationality or incentive for playing a decent schedule and in my view this really is what makes regular season games irrelevant.
Also I in most years once a team loses all their games become irrelevant. This year everyone of Michigans games was basically irrelevant after the App. St. loss. For USC after losing to Stanford there basically went their chances.
If you don't want care about the NC then I say go back to the traditional bowl ties. That system was as effective at producing clear national champions as this one is except at least back then we didn't have one team holding some stupid glass trophy that is supposed to signify that they are the true champs and not the team that is at least equally deserving if not more.