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Originally Posted by valo403
I love that analogy. Obviously a bit over the top, but it gets the point across. Two wins over ranked opponents, an Oregon State team that goes from a pretty good team to a terrible team in a heartbeat and a Utah team that was the most fraudulent top 10 team in the country. The rest of that schedule is a joke (SMU, Baylor and Air Force are the next teir of teams). If you put that schedule in front of Stanford, Wisconsin or Ohio State they'd walk through it year after year (I'd add my Spartans but I've experienced too many 'they lost to who?' moments to go out on that branch just yet).
TCU is a very good team, they may well be capable of beating Auburn and Oregon, but there's nothing that tells me they've earned the right to be there over either of those teams, or even some one loss teams. A plus one system would be great for these situations, make TCU beat Wisconsin before the NC matchup is decided. I'm actually surprised that the BCS hasn't gone to the plus one, it would kill off a good portion of complaints without going to the extremes of a playoff and would preserve what makes college football so great as it is. I have to assume that the conferences aren't on board with it, and unless they get on board with any type of change it just isn't going to happen.
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The BCS is far from perfect, it has it's warts such as too many auto qualifyers but it amazes me that most simply simply ignore that BSU and TCU play fundamentally very different teams. There's probably 30 teams in the country that could run their table and nobody ever cares. Even the BSU and TCU HC's have said the BCS system is quite honestly perfect for us. We get to be in the conversation all the time and don't have to do what other majors schools have to do (read play top tier football games) to be in the mix.