BCS STANDINGS - WEEK 11

[UMass922]

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/polls?poll=4&date=2007-11-04

1. Ohio State
2. LSU
3. Oregon
4. Kansas
5. Oklahoma

Most of the upstarts have fallen off as the season has progressed, but Oregon and Kansas are still up there--and that's definitely the BCS title game I'll be rooting for. Both those teams look legit, too--Oregon especially--and Ohio State and LSU are good but beatable. So a lot is still up for grabs. A lot of parity in FBS this year. More even than most years, this would be a great year for a playoff. (That's preaching to the choir on this board, of course.)

[citdog]

WHAT IS THIS BCS YOU SPEAK OF?

[bluehenbillk]

Delaware should be ahead of Oregon!!

Heck, we beat Navy, who beat Notre Dame, who beat UCLA, who beat Cal, who beat Oregon.

[yorkcountyUNHfan]

Delaware should be ahead of Oregon!!

Heck, we beat Navy, who beat Notre Dame, who beat UCLA, who beat Cal, who beat Oregon.


New Hampshire should be ahead of Oregon because well you know.

[tribe_pride]

New Hampshire should be ahead of Oregon because well you know.

Then so should W&M since we beat Towson who beat Richmond who beat well you know.

[brownbear]

No we should be ahead of them because:

Brown beat Princeton
Princeton beat Cornell
Cornell beat Colgate
Colgate beat Towson
Towson beat Richmond
Richmond beat New Hampshire
New Hampshire beat Delaware
Delaware beat Navy
Navy beat Notre Dame
Notre Dame beat UCLA
UCLA beat California
California beat Oregon

So much better looking when you write it all out.

[brownbear]

We can also be ahead of LSU:

Brown beat Princeton
Princeton beat Cornell
Cornell beat Colgate
Colgate beat Towson
Towson beat Richmond
Richmond beat New Hampshire
New Hampshire beat Delaware
Delaware beat Navy
Navy beat Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh beat Cincinnati
Cincinnati beat South Florida
South Florida beat Auburn
Auburn beat Florida
Florida beat Kentucky
Kentucky beat LSU

[yorkcountyUNHfan]

Then so should W&M since we beat Towson who beat Richmond who beat well you know.

So should Northeastern

and Maine

and Stony Brook

xoopsx xoopsx xoopsx xoopsx

[JALMOND]

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/polls?poll=4&date=2007-11-04

1. Ohio State
2. LSU
3. Oregon
4. Kansas
5. Oklahoma

Most of the upstarts have fallen off as the season has progressed, but Oregon and Kansas are still up there--and that's definitely the BCS title game I'll be rooting for. Both those teams look legit, too--Oregon especially--and Ohio State and LSU are good but beatable. So a lot is still up for grabs. A lot of parity in FBS this year. More even than most years, this would be a great year for a playoff. (That's preaching to the choir on this board, of course.)


Ducks will get screwed out of it as usual. The winner of the Big 12 championship (assuming Kansas and Oklahoma) will vault over Oregon and have the inside track. There is east coast bias in the BCS as well, because, you know, we just don't know how to play the game out here.

[Peems]

I think LSU willl lose another game, maybe against Arkansas. Can McFadden single handidly beat them?

[brownbear]

I think LSU willl lose another game, maybe against Arkansas. Can McFadden single handidly beat them?

LSU will also have to play the SEC Championship. Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida are hard opponents to beat.

[UMass922]

LSU will also have to play the SEC Championship. Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida are hard opponents to beat.

Conference championship games seem to cut both ways. On the one hand, it gives a team one more game it could possibly lose, thus knocking it out of the national championship picture--but on the other hand, it gives the team that wins a big SOS boost, another quality win, and positive publicity in the media while other teams sit idle. It's very much a risk/reward scenario. In any case, I think it's possible--and personally I would like to see this--that eventually every BCS conference will institute a championship game (which might entail every conference expanding to 12 teams).

To go on a bit of a tangent:

If all six BCS conferences had championship games, that could lay the foundation for a fair, workable playoff system, IMHO. Quite simply, the playoff field would consist of the six conference champions, with the remaining two spots reserved for mid-majors (and/or independents) to be selected at an at-large basis (this would be the only tricky part to work out). As I see it, under such a system no BCS team would have much to complain about as far as fairness goes, since every single team in those leagues would have its destiny entirely in its own hands from the beginning of the season: win your conference and you're in. The conference championship games would in effect function as first-round playoff games. The current BCS system (or some version of it) could perhaps still be used to seed the teams 1-8.

That's wishful thinking, of course, but it's the best, fairest, and most workable system I can think of. As a fan I think it would be fun to follow and watch, because you'd know that everything is being determined on the field. And the presence of the mid-majors would provide the excitement of possible upsets that makes the NCAA basketball tournament so exciting. The Boise St. win over Oklahoma game last season gave us a glimpse of that.

[UMass922]

11/12

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/polls?poll=4&date=2007-11-11

1. LSU
2. Oregon
3. Kansas
4. Oklahoma
5. Missouri

[AZGrizFan]

If all six BCS conferences had championship games, that could lay the foundation for a fair, workable playoff system, IMHO. Quite simply, the playoff field would consist of the six conference champions, with the remaining two spots reserved for mid-majors (and/or independents) to be selected at an at-large basis (this would be the only tricky part to work out). As I see it, under such a system no BCS team would have much to complain about as far as fairness goes, since every single team in those leagues would have its destiny entirely in its own hands from the beginning of the season: win your conference and you're in. The conference championship games would in effect function as first-round playoff games. The current BCS system (or some version of it) could perhaps still be used to seed the teams 1-8.

That's wishful thinking, of course, but it's the best, fairest, and most workable system I can think of. As a fan I think it would be fun to follow and watch, because you'd know that everything is being determined on the field. And the presence of the mid-majors would provide the excitement of possible upsets that makes the NCAA basketball tournament so exciting. The Boise St. win over Oklahoma game last season gave us a glimpse of that.

Makes too much sense. They'll never go for it. xcoffeex xcoffeex xcoffeex

[Grizaholic17]

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/polls?poll=4&date=2007-11-04

1. Ohio State
2. LSU
3. Oregon
4. Kansas
5. Oklahoma

Most of the upstarts have fallen off as the season has progressed, but Oregon and Kansas are still up there--and that's definitely the BCS title game I'll be rooting for. Both those teams look legit, too--Oregon especially--and Ohio State and LSU are good but beatable. So a lot is still up for grabs. A lot of parity in FBS this year. More even than most years, this would be a great year for a playoff. (That's preaching to the choir on this board, of course.)

I thought LSU was #1 again. Then Oregon.

[UMass922]

I thought LSU was #1 again. Then Oregon.

That was last week's. I just added the new rankings to the old thread, but I guess I probably should have started a new one. Sorry about the confusion.

EDIT: Started a new thread for this week's standings.