Sorry for the pause...was away for a few days.

Bill Connelly’s original article
http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/20...-committee

Complete BCS standings for your perusal
http://www.footballfoundation.org/Progra...hives.aspx

This would be downright ugly. It appeared like the Big 12 was strong that year, but by bowl season, they were exposed as a fraud. Using the BCS rankings though, they’d have gotten 2 teams in the playoff. This is another reason I think placing two teams in the CFP should be avoided as much as possible. Oregon is in as Pac-10 champ with strong record. I feel like Oregon and Miami deserve a spot. Colorado and Nebraska get in, but as undeserving participants. This year would be a great test of the “losing late vs. losing early” discussion because the whole top 10 lost important games late.

Mess grade (how much controversy would exist)—D.

Oregon, Miami, and Colorado definitely in. Nebraska probably in as well- just because there was no one else almost- Tennessee, Florida lost late.

What is interesting- the polls #6 team was Maryland. They had only 1 loss. Would they have had a shot as ACC champion?

Maryland got no respect that year. They beat nobody and their one strong opponent (Florida State) killed them. And that was Bowden's worst FSU team in 15 years.

How about 10-1 Illinois? Big Ten champs with wins over ranked Louisville, Purdue & Ohio State.

I think Florida would have had a chance if the year had been normal- non 9/11. If they had lost to Tennessee in September, I think they likely are in the playoff.

Illinois doesn't get it because they beat only 1 top 25 team, Ohio St. Louisville sas 27th, and Purdue was 6-5.

despite 2 loses, Colo had strong resume
1 in SOS, B-12 Champ, Basiclly 2 in computors
I could see all or none of Tenn, Fla, ILL
making in because of TV

You can make an argument for Texas and Colorado that you can't for the other 2 loss teams. Each of them beat one of the teams that beat them meaning that they technically beat everyone on their schedule except one team.

If I had to pick I would go with:

1- Miami - Unbeaten BCS league champ
2- Oregon- 1 Loss BCS league champ and strong SOS.

The rest is where it's a tallest midget setup...

Maryland- Weak SOS but solid 1 loss record but lost by blowout
Illinois - A little better SOS but 1 loss record and lost by blowout
Texas- 2 narrow losses but beat CU in a regular season blowout and one of their losses was close to that same team
Colorado- Lost by blowout to Texas and lost to 3 loss Fresno. Won the rematch in the Big 12 title game in the Chris Simms turnover game by 2 or 3 points against Texas.
Nebraska- 1 loss but was stomped by Colorado.
Florida- 2 narrow losses
Tennessee - 2 narrow losses but beat Florida

Blowouts IMO are practically disqualifiers.

My last 2 in are Tennessee and Texas. None of these teams have any real gripe. Either a weak SOS, 2 losses, or a blowout loss puts each of them as easy to exclude.
Tennessee- Strong SOS, 2 narrow losses, no real issues. Might have gone with UF but Vols beat them head to head.
Texas- It's either them or Colorado and do you take the team that won 41-7 or the one that won by 3 points?

Colorado is in. They are conference champs. In a setup like that- they aren't getting left out- especially not against a team that they had just beaten for the conference championship.

(08-01-2014 09:18 AM)stever20 Wrote:  Colorado is in. They are conference champs. In a setup like that- they aren't getting left out- especially not against a team that they had just beaten for the conference championship.

Yup. In the 4-team playoff, a team that didn't win its conference is not going to be chosen by the committee unless their resume is much better (not just maybe sorta arguably a tiny bit better) than every P5 champ that isn't chosen for the playoff.

And a team that didn't win its conference has no chance of being chosen over the team that did win its conference when the two teams have the same number of losses.

(08-01-2014 09:13 AM)1845 Bear Wrote:  You can make an argument for Texas and Colorado that you can't for the other 2 loss teams. Each of them beat one of the teams that beat them meaning that they technically beat everyone on their schedule except one team.

If I had to pick I would go with:

1- Miami - Unbeaten BCS league champ
2- Oregon- 1 Loss BCS league champ and strong SOS.

The rest is where it's a tallest midget setup...

Maryland- Weak SOS but solid 1 loss record but lost by blowout
Illinois - A little better SOS but 1 loss record and lost by blowout
Texas- 2 narrow losses but beat CU in a regular season blowout and one of their losses was close to that same team
Colorado- Lost by blowout to Texas and lost to 3 loss Fresno. Won the rematch in the Big 12 title game in the Chris Simms turnover game by 2 or 3 points against Texas.
Nebraska- 1 loss but was stomped by Colorado.
Florida- 2 narrow losses
Tennessee - 2 narrow losses but beat Florida

Blowouts IMO are practically disqualifiers.

My last 2 in are Tennessee and Texas. None of these teams have any real gripe. Either a weak SOS, 2 losses, or a blowout loss puts each of them as easy to exclude.
Tennessee- Strong SOS, 2 narrow losses, no real issues. Might have gone with UF but Vols beat them head to head.
Texas- It's either them or Colorado and do you take the team that won 41-7 or the one that won by 3 points?

Texas was the best team in the Big 12 that year, but they lost the one game that counted. Author is right-Miami, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska. Nebraska only had 1 loss (compared to UT's 2) and had a pretty good resume prior to the late blowout to CU.

(08-02-2014 04:24 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-01-2014 09:13 AM)1845 Bear Wrote:  You can make an argument for Texas and Colorado that you can't for the other 2 loss teams. Each of them beat one of the teams that beat them meaning that they technically beat everyone on their schedule except one team.

If I had to pick I would go with:

1- Miami - Unbeaten BCS league champ
2- Oregon- 1 Loss BCS league champ and strong SOS.

The rest is where it's a tallest midget setup...

Maryland- Weak SOS but solid 1 loss record but lost by blowout
Illinois - A little better SOS but 1 loss record and lost by blowout
Texas- 2 narrow losses but beat CU in a regular season blowout and one of their losses was close to that same team
Colorado- Lost by blowout to Texas and lost to 3 loss Fresno. Won the rematch in the Big 12 title game in the Chris Simms turnover game by 2 or 3 points against Texas.
Nebraska- 1 loss but was stomped by Colorado.
Florida- 2 narrow losses
Tennessee - 2 narrow losses but beat Florida

Blowouts IMO are practically disqualifiers.

My last 2 in are Tennessee and Texas. None of these teams have any real gripe. Either a weak SOS, 2 losses, or a blowout loss puts each of them as easy to exclude.
Tennessee- Strong SOS, 2 narrow losses, no real issues. Might have gone with UF but Vols beat them head to head.
Texas- It's either them or Colorado and do you take the team that won 41-7 or the one that won by 3 points?

Texas was the best team in the Big 12 that year, but they lost the one game that counted. Author is right-Miami, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska. Nebraska only had 1 loss (compared to UT's 2) and had a pretty good resume prior to the late blowout to CU.

Gotta disagree on Nebby. You get stomped that badly and I think the Vols jump em.