Possible Boise State/Nebraska series stalled because...

[Warner2BruceTD]

I think you and I can both agree an undefeated season from Boise, TCU or Hawaii carries far more weight than an undefeated season from Ball State. At least I hope.

And that seems like a really weird way of me saying "I DON'T WANT ANY NON-BCS SCHOOLS IN!!!1!!!!11!"

I understand that Ball St played nobody, but they deserve the opportunity to get stomped in a playoff. It sounded as if you were implying otherwise.

I just don't think the non cartel leagues should be ok to slap around in a non conf schedule, but then excluded when one breaks through and has success. Finally Boise is getting some due, but cmon. How many unbeaten seasons do you need?

My gripe, is no team should end a season unbeaten and not be called a champion. Its absurd. If unbeaten isn't good enough, they shouldn't pretend these leagues are playing the same game. D1should be cartel only if that's the case.

[FedEx227]

More annoying:

Twigg writing M$ everytime he mentions Microsoft or W2B saying the cartel?

[FirstTimer]

More annoying:

Twigg writing M$ everytime he mentions Microsoft or W2B saying the cartel?

I have write in votes for Dave saying "Queen James" or Blitz using the word "schtick"....or Ram29Jackson posting in general.

[FedEx227]

Yeah ram29jackson posting is much worse than anything else.

I concede.

/thread

[Sportsbuck]

Why don't some of you guys come clean?

It's pretty obvious why an Ohio St fan would want to protect THE CARTEL.

Call it like it is. You like that 20-25 teams control everything, because you are one of them. Lame.

A playoff? Bring it on.

I welcome the chance to pound a Hawaii, a Ball State, hell even a Boise State if they come up to Columbus for a December playoff game. I'm salivating over the possibility of a Florida or an Alabama coming to the Shoe when its 20 degrees out and there's snow on the ground.

I could care less about protecting "The Cartel".

[JeremyHight]

A playoff? Bring it on.

I welcome the chance to pound a Hawaii, a Ball State, hell even a Boise State if they come up to Columbus for a December playoff game. I'm salivating over the possibility of a Florida or an Alabama coming to the Shoe when its 20 degrees out and there's snow on the ground.

I could care less about protecting "The Cartel".

Playoff games wouldn't be played at home, they would be played at bowl sites.

[FedEx227]

Which brings up another awesome topic, how do you split the money?

Do you think Ohio State will be okay with splitting revenue 50/50 with Ball State? Ohio State brings 80,000 fans to the game, Ball State 6,000 but they split the revenue.

Yeeeah...

[Sportsbuck]

Playoff games wouldn't be played at home, they would be played at bowl sites.

Which is a retarded idea IMO, because your keeping the biggest flaw in the current bowl system in play: The home field advantage that southern/Pac-10 schools have.

Tickets may be split, but when you have (for example) OSU playing LSU in New Orleans, Iowa playing Florida in Tampa, Penn State playing USC in Los Angeles there's a problem IMO. One team is travleing hundreds or even thousands of miles while the other team can spend the night in their dorms for christ sake and wake up and walk to the stadium if they wanted to.

Keep the bowls for the teams that don't make the playoffs, but seed the teams and play the games at the higher seeded team's venue until the championship game, and play that on a neutral site (ala FCS, D2, D3, the NFL).

[Warner2BruceTD]

A playoff? Bring it on.

I welcome the chance to pound a Hawaii, a Ball State, hell even a Boise State if they come up to Columbus for a December playoff game. I'm salivating over the possibility of a Florida or an Alabama coming to the Shoe when its 20 degrees out and there's snow on the ground.

I could care less about protecting "The Cartel".

Thank you!

Like I said earlier, the best way to shut up the little guys is to stomp them in a playoff.

[NAHSTE]

Which is a retarded idea IMO, because your keeping the biggest flaw in the current bowl system in play: The home field advantage that southern/Pac-10 schools have.

Tickets may be split, but when you have (for example) OSU playing LSU in New Orleans, Iowa playing Florida in Tampa, Penn State playing USC in Los Angeles there's a problem IMO. One team is travleing hundreds or even thousands of miles while the other team can spend the night in their dorms for christ sake and wake up and walk to the stadium if they wanted to.

Keep the bowls for the teams that don't make the playoffs, but seed the teams and play the games at the higher seeded team's venue until the championship game, and play that on a neutral site (ala FCS, D2, D3, the NFL).

Shit man if you want to start giving playoff home games to the higher seeded teams, you won't find any objections from LSU fans. I think the rest of college football may have a problem with having to come to Death Valley though. The Super Dome is smaller than Tiger Stadium, so we'd actually have even more of a crowd advantage in a real home game.

[mgoblue2290]

I have write in votes for Dave saying "Queen James" or Blitz using the word "schtick"....or Ram29Jackson posting in general.

I think 40% of blitz's posts not involving politics was just "schtick?"

[Fox1994]

Which is a retarded idea IMO, because your keeping the biggest flaw in the current bowl system in play: The home field advantage that southern/Pac-10 schools have.

Tickets may be split, but when you have (for example) OSU playing LSU in New Orleans, Iowa playing Florida in Tampa, Penn State playing USC in Los Angeles there's a problem IMO. One team is travleing hundreds or even thousands of miles while the other team can spend the night in their dorms for christ sake and wake up and walk to the stadium if they wanted to.

Keep the bowls for the teams that don't make the playoffs, but seed the teams and play the games at the higher seeded team's venue until the championship game, and play that on a neutral site (ala FCS, D2, D3, the NFL).

Idk. I think they should give the teams home games by seeding, like with NFL playoffs... And then do the championship at one of the traditional bowl sites... Let it rotate like it does with the BCS. Then they can use the other BCS bowls as runner-up games for the playoff losers.

They can cut the regular season down to 10 games to make this seem less ridiculous.

EDIT: Fuck that last idea. Cut it down to eight games. The ten-team conferences use five-team divisions and the twelve-team conferences use six-team divisions. During the regular season, you play round-robin against the teams in your division, two teams from the other division (rotating each year), then one "challenge"/"invitational" games like they do in FCS (ie. MEAC-SWAC challenge) and one OOC game OR two OOC games - obviously, the teams in the invitationals are invited before the season starts and either accept or deny the invitation... The winners of the two divisions play each other and the winner of that conference championship game is the conference playoff representative.

 

For USC last year, this would mean:
4 Pac-10 division games
P10-B10 challenge or some shit (tOSU game)
2 Pac-10 intra-division games (Oregon teams)

 

(North division is made-up of Oregon teams, Wash teams, Stan... South division is made-up of SC, Cal, fUCLA, Arizona teams... Would never work in real life, but for hypotheticals' sake we're using it)

OOC game (ND)

For Bama:
5 SEC division games
ACC-SEC challenge (VT game)
2 SEC intra-division games (Tenn & UF)

It's imperfect... In fact, it's mainly fucked, I'm not at all sure how to set-up the regular season, but I think the NCAA should do a twelve-team playoff with eleven conference winners and a wild card team. I think if people want to complain about too many regular season games (because you don't want the "student"-athletes getting too worn down and playing too much), you can cut down to eight or ten games, but I'm not sure how to set up a regular season...