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Originally Posted by FlamingLonghorn
Well the best way to do it is to create a conference championship playoff then? Keeps regular season meaning and crowns a true champion through a playoff? Obviously realignment would have to happen. I honestly am not hugely in favor of the new system, but I am not really in favor of the current system. Save having a flexible system I don't see how you do it.
On another note I think margin of victory needs to be added back in to the BCS. I saw a great break down of how NIU is ranked really low in the computer polls, but because the margin of victory calculation is removed before putting it in the BCS formula they jump into the top 15 of all the computer polls. I know running up the score is bad sportsmanship, but it also removes outliers of crappy teams scraping by other crappy teams. Obviously moot because of NIU loss but interesting nonetheless.
PS. forgot until I saw him on TV a couple weeks ago Josh Huff was a Willie Lyles boy too.
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The best way to do it would require a lot of cooperation and a national czar type office that actually could act in the best interest for the NCAA. Create 4 16 super-confrences and let them playoff. Those 4 move on. I like simple top two better but IF we need to deviate that's how I'd do it. Keep the integrity of the Conf championships at least.
We seem to agree a top 4 doesn't achieve much more than what 2 does. It's just a gateway to lame top 8, and in that scenario I still thing top 2 or 3 or even 4 teams coast and sit guys in the Conf championship or rivalry game or whatever at the end of their sched because they are in either way.
I do agree that margin of victory should matter, for some reason football has a culture around you can't win by a big margin. One of the dumbest things in sports is the disdain for running up the score. Does anyone care when the Hitmen score a 7th goal to go up 7-1? Like they have the nerve to send 5 out on a power play, effectively piling on the opposition? And since we are finding flaws in how we evaluate teams, humans have this nasty habit of undervaluing Strength of Schedule. We don't need to think of Boise State, or Utah (back in their old conf) in terms of a NC contender. If you play Wyoming and Portland State for a living, that's fine but a dozen teams (or more) could run their tables.