Monday, November 06, 2006

BCS- Big Crappy System

I hate accronyms. I hate the BCS even more. Let us briefly discuss the plight of my favorite college football team the University of Wisconsin. We are ranked 15, and you have to figure the top four or five are going to have one loss or less, so the easiest way to explain the Badgers getting into a BCS game is that 5-14 all have to lose once. This is quite possible (for one scenario see this blog), the only problem for UW is that nobody seems to care that we have only lost once and it was to the number 2 team in the country, barely. This is where the system is really crazy to me, Ohio State played one really good non-conference game, and Michigan played one really good non-conference game, but outside of those two games our schedules are almost identical (almost, ours may be easier than UM because we don't play OSU, but harder than OSU because we don't play MSU) and we get no love because of a "soft" Big Ten schedule. I don't get it, if its strong enough in the computers to make Michigan and OSU 1,2, then it ought to be strong enough to catapult us over two loss teams (I am talking to you LSU, who easily could have lost 4 games by now) and put us in the same discussion with a bunch of other one loss teams (WVU-they've played like one ranked team all year too, bring on the Temple, ND for now anyway, and USC who really only accidentally played a good team in Arkansas, not too mention Auburn who got throttled by us less than a year ago and are a blown fumble call against LSU and a fake fumble against Florida away from having 3 losses). UW has not handled our schedule, we have dominated it (Michigan's average margin of victory is 13.5 pts a game, while ours is almost a whole touchdown better a game 19.3, OSU's is a ghastly 31.8). In short, UW can not pass up teams in front of them because the people who vote on things like this thought we weren't any good to start the year. One of the BCS computers has us ranked as high as 8 over all with a combined computer ranking of 11 in the country. So why are we 15, because the actual human voters think two teams with two losses are better than us, because they thought we weren't very good to start the year. Yuck! No more numbers, and its not going to matter anyway because UW will lose on Saturday (we always seem to lose the one game that screws everything up) and none of this will matter. Sometimes I absolutely hate college football.

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