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IF a new bowl is added, would the BE have a shot to use it as a host bowl at least partially?

I can't believe 4 BCS bowls are going to divide the pot & add a 5th bowl. Why would non-bcs conf go for a playoff, what's in it for them. a 25 yr wait for playoff to grow to 16. I would think ND stays close to B-10 & Pac-10, as would the MAC, WAC & MWC for sch perks.

Fvck B10 and PAC10. Let them go play in their own little Rose Bowl. Who the hell cares. Let rest of the conferences have their own national championship. I doubt Pac10 and B10 fans would want that crap every year. I hope they can make enough of a push and get this done. The bias in voting every week is an ongoing joke every year and it is time to put a stop to it.

I could see an unseeded plus one system as making all of the BCS bowls a lot more intriguing. The games that the media currently call meaningless could all of a sudden mean a whole lot. Winning you Jan 1 BCS bowl wouldn't be enough anymore. You'd need style points to impress the voters to get into that nat'l championship game.

unseeded plus one, would be no different then what you have now except the regular season would be the body of work instead of one bowl game.

Quote:Would, at some point, Slive be willing to lead a break away group of the SEC, ACC, Big 12, Big East and Notre Dame to make a playoff happen? He says nothing and everything when answering that question.

"I get that a lot and I have said it is a question I don't have to address," Slive said. "The question is appropriate but it is beyond where we are as a mindset of where we are today.

I hope things never come down to that. The BE would then have to make a decision as to who to align with. Do they align with the Big 10 and Pac 10 or do they align with the breakaway group who could then demand that the BE go to 12 teams because the breakaway conferences all would have 12 teams. If they align with the Big 10 and Pac 10, would the breakaway leagues try to poach our teams in order to make the BE a non factor? Crazier things have happened in college fb and nothing would surprise me.

If the other BCS conferences do go their own way, they should forbid all members from playing anyone not with them.

If the Big/PAC 10, and Irish, are stupid enough to fight this let them play with themselves, and nobody else, and see how they like it. Just 22 schools alone ain't going to go very far.

I agree with you Cuseroc, I would think MAC, WAC & MWC align with Pac-10 & B-10. I think they would go after Tex schools hard & hope to fracture the B-12. Both sides would want BE & thier markets & BE could end up fractured as well.
Every body talks about how much money the playoffs would be worth. How much are they worth if #1 USC is playing #2 OSU in the Rose Bowl.

SF Husky Wrote:Fvck B10 and PAC10. Let them go play in their own little Rose Bowl. Who the hell cares. Let rest of the conferences have their own national championship. I doubt Pac10 and B10 fans would want that crap every year. I hope they can make enough of a push and get this done. The bias in voting every week is an ongoing joke every year and it is time to put a stop to it.

Big Ten fans are already getting bent out of shape by their conferences' stances and even THEY are calling their stance outdated and obsolete!

templefootballfan Wrote:I agree with you Cuseroc, I would think MAC, WAC & MWC align with Pac-10 & B-10. I think they would go after Tex schools hard & hope to fracture the B-12. Both sides would want BE & thier markets & BE could end up fractured as well.
Every body talks about how much money the playoffs would be worth. How much are they worth if #1 USC is playing #2 OSU in the Rose Bowl.

If Ohio State and USC are playing in the Rose Bowl, and they have played nobody in the playoff, then their rankings would be so much sewage. If there is a split over this within the NCAA, it should be a total split. Let those schools who wish to avoid a playoff go their own way to ambiguity. Those of us with intelligence would like to know who is the REAL Champion.

CatsClaw Wrote:

SF Husky Wrote:Fvck B10 and PAC10. Let them go play in their own little Rose Bowl. Who the hell cares. Let rest of the conferences have their own national championship. I doubt Pac10 and B10 fans would want that crap every year. I hope they can make enough of a push and get this done. The bias in voting every week is an ongoing joke every year and it is time to put a stop to it.

Big Ten fans are already getting bent out of shape by their conferences' stances and even THEY are calling their stance outdated and obsolete!

Unfortunately, the fans aren't the ones in charge of making the decision.

A seeded Plus-One will never happen. The Big Ten and Pac-10 will fight that idea to the death because they do not want to be seeded out of the Rose Bowl. Look for the BCS to adopt an unseeded Plus-One if anything happens at all.

Using such a format, the past season could have looked something like this:

SUGAR: LSU vs. Hawaii
ROSE: Ohio State vs. USC
ORANGE: Virginia Tech vs. Kansas
FIESTA: Georgia vs. Illinois (or higher ranked Arizona State)
COTTON: Oklahoma vs. West Virginia

Two winners would then play in the BCS TITLE GAME roughly a week later.

They will have no choice but to add another game, probably the Cotton Bowl, to the BCS and then continue to double host the BCS Title Game like they do now. Each bowl will double host every fifth year instead of every fourth year.

the unseeded may happen years from now. I don't see anything coming from it except saying they listened to some parties' wishes and discussed it.

The latest news is that nothing will change this season. The same ambiguity will rule in '08.

they will talk.. and talk and then leave it alone. The majority of them have no intentions of a mini playoff.. or any playoff.

Whatever happens the Big East needs to remain allied with the Big 12. During the early dark days of expansion, the Big 12 always supported the Big East. We should do the same, no matter how this all shakes out.
Let Frick and Frack (Slive and Swafford) put on their dog and pony show, nothing is going to happen. Let Delaney and Hansen bury their heads in the sand. Lets just go about our business and play football. Everything else will take care of itself.
CJ

Everyone knows that they are at the Westin Diplomat on the beach in Hollywood, FL to enjoy some surf and golf.

Meetings?

Please...its just an excuse to right off a free golf/beach vacation.

I like Jim's idea. Three distinct camps in the BCS ... ACC & SEC, Big 12 & Big East, and Big Ten & Pac-10 ... all with agendas so different that nothing will ever get accomplished. No changes would be instituted for 2008 and 2009 anyway. A Plus-One would not be adopted until 2010 even if they miraculously vote to approve the concept.