01-07-2004, 10:11 AM
When the BCS Committee meets to consider changes (April?) what is most likely to happen? Here's what I think.
1-Changes designed to avoid what happened this year--a split national champion. Maybe a committee to select the two teams who will play for the title? You think ABC will let this one slide by? Reports are that the ratings for this year's BCS Championship game were the lowest ever.
2-Perhaps a tweaking of how money is distributed so that non-BCS conferences will receive a bit more.
3-Adding a 5th BCS Bowl where a non-BCS team will be one of the participants.
Of all these, I feel the 3rd one would benefit the MAC and other non-BCS conferences the most. It would start an erosion of the "non-BCS" label. How can you refer to conferences as "non-BCS" if they can provide a team that will play in a BCS Bowl? Would this bring back to prominence the ugly "mid-major" label? You can bet that "top tier" conferences would employ some kind of label.
As posters on this and other boards have noted, 5 of the top 25 teams in this year's final polls were "non-BCS teams". Might as well toss in here that the MAC was the only non-BCS conference to have 2 (this has happened twice in recent years) and no other non-BCS conference has ever had more than 1.
1-Changes designed to avoid what happened this year--a split national champion. Maybe a committee to select the two teams who will play for the title? You think ABC will let this one slide by? Reports are that the ratings for this year's BCS Championship game were the lowest ever.
2-Perhaps a tweaking of how money is distributed so that non-BCS conferences will receive a bit more.
3-Adding a 5th BCS Bowl where a non-BCS team will be one of the participants.
Of all these, I feel the 3rd one would benefit the MAC and other non-BCS conferences the most. It would start an erosion of the "non-BCS" label. How can you refer to conferences as "non-BCS" if they can provide a team that will play in a BCS Bowl? Would this bring back to prominence the ugly "mid-major" label? You can bet that "top tier" conferences would employ some kind of label.
As posters on this and other boards have noted, 5 of the top 25 teams in this year's final polls were "non-BCS teams". Might as well toss in here that the MAC was the only non-BCS conference to have 2 (this has happened twice in recent years) and no other non-BCS conference has ever had more than 1.