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Originally Posted by wpgflamesfan
If they played in the Big East they'd have a good shot at winning the conference but I could easily see them tripping up in something like @South Florida, Pitt, @West Virginia, @ Cincy on back to back to back to back weeks (Syracuse's schedule this year) and losing one game, thus taking themselves out of the NC picture.
Same with the ACC. I'm sure they could win it, but there'd probably be a loss somewhere in a schedule like @Clemson, Florida State, @Duke, North Carolina,@Virginia, Maryland, @GT, VT (Miami's schedule for the year). To further my point, it doesn't seem like any team from the ACC has come out of conference play undefeated in quite some time.
Throw in a couple good OOC games and it'd be a hell of alot more difficult for them to get into the NC game.
And with the playoff issue, yeah there's moneygrab big schools that won't allow it to go though, but there's also the fact that there's no time in the season to play 3-4 extra games, there'd still be people complaining about being left out, and no fan is gonna travel 3-5 times in as many weeks to watch their team play.
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Nonsense.
The season can be over by the middle of November...which leaves a full 6 weeks of time BEFORE they play meaningful bowl games now.
I agree that the travel of fans could be an issue, but it amazes me that the FBS manages it quite successfully every year.
It is assinine to me that whatever you are ranked pre-season can have as much bearing on whether or not you have a chance to play in a BCS championship game...literally rankings being done with no one invoved having any idea how good or not some teams may be. Its really laughable when you think about it.