BCS Matchups Leaked: LSU vs. Ohio St for National Title

No one wants to see a 3rd Mizzou OU game. Norman, San Antonio, Phoenix, anywhere but maybe Columbia, OU beats Mizzou.

Kansas is more attractive than Mizzou because Kansas has one loss and has not played OU. Yes I am penalizing Mizzou for last night...see above no one wants to see a 3rd Mizzou OU game.

Mizzou has no one to blame but itself...that's why I'm not shedding any tears.

 

It's not really close to the same situation though, is it? Tennessee also got shredded by Florida, mediocre Alabama and a 6-6 Cal team.

Mizzou's only losses came to Oklahoma - whom Kansas didn't play - and one of those losses came in a game they beat Kansas to get to.

 

The entire Big East is a joke, no championship game, OSU doesn't have nearly the resume that other teams had.

I don't understand how they could play one less game and still make it, isn't that unfair?

 

Again, there are other options than the Fiesta Bowl. Bowls work trades out all the time. For example, West Virginia could've gone from the Orange to the Fiesta and Mizzou gone to the Orange. Both are at-larges, and neither are close to either school, so attendance wouldn't be affected.

I agree that OU shouldn't play Mizzou a third time, but there are other at-large options in the BCS besides the Fiesta. Also, Mizzou is left out of the BCS for an Illinois team that had a worst record and that lost to Mizzou head-to-head.

If you don't see a problem with being passed over for two schools you beat on the field and are ranked ahead of, I'm not sure what to say. That's ridiculous.

 

LSU-OU

Georgia-USC: consolation game
Mizzou-WVU: spread offense insanity
OSU-Hawaii: tortoise v. hare
VTech-Illinois? (I guess, should be Kansas or Florida)

I would watch these games. Hell, I'll watch the other ones, but I'd *like* to watch these.

 

I'm sure the Sooner players are so excited to be rewarded with winning the Big XII championship game by playing another conference game.

 

Oh...and LSU is going to stomp a mudhole (turfhole?) in the buckeyes.

 

Yeah, the Sooners keep being put in no-win situations. Last year's Boise State team would whip Kansas. This year's OU will win by 30, minimum.

I hate cheering for favorites, and I hate cheering for OU and USC. But I hope Kansas, Hawaii, and Illinois all get ripped new assholes.

 

Of course, and another fraudulent Big XII North team will get exposed. Seriously, the bowl season is going to suck ass this year. The Texas - ASU game is actually much better than most of those BCS matchups.

 

Arizona State deserves to be in the BCS over Illinois.

 

Except that outside of the national title game, the BCS's purpose is not to put the best teams in the BCS games. It's to give the bowls matchups that they like and that attracts revenues. If they wanted to put the best teams in, they would just make the rule that the top available at-larges have to be picked.

 

What sucks about OSU/LSU is that this season had so much potential to give the non-perennial contenders a shot at the the title. At various times, Cal, Kansas, Mizzou, West Virginia, Oregon, and South Florida all seemed like legitimate national title game possibilities.

At the end of the day, we're left with two of the usual top-10 types (OSU, Michigan, LSU, Florida, Texas, OU, USC, etc). Boring.

 

Illinois over Mizzou seems like the biggest slight IMO -- #1 to out of the BCS entirely...


: rolleyes :

 

the entre system is just stupid, they need to make a PLAYOFF

 

Can you please explain to me how maintaining the Big 10/Pac 10 matchup in the Rose Bowl regardless of who actually wins the championships of those conferences attracts more revenue? Can you explain to me how Hawaii being an automatic qualifier attracts more fans and revenue? Can you explain to me how not allowing a conference more than two teams, even if there are three very good ones, makes more money?

The BCS and its bowls do try, through several ridiculous rules, to look at things aside from revenue concerns. The problem is that they aren't rooted in any kind of logic.

 

The BCS only allows a max of 2 teams from each conference. Either Kansas or Mizzou will get left out.

Florida will get left out because of LSU and Georgia.

So without those 2 teams, that allows Hawaii and either Arizona State or Illinois in. IMO, Arizona St. is much more deserving and should get the last spot instead of Illinois.

 

Mizzou headed to Dallas to take on Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl. Two contrasting styles of ball. Normally, I would give the nod to Mizzou, but they are going to be disappointed to be playing in this game. On the other hand, Arkansas is playing with an interim head coach and a staff of assistants that are recruiting for another school (no joke). IMO, this game could be pretty ugly. Arkansas fans will turn out big time for this game. I was actually at the last game these two schools played each other, the Independence bowl a few years ago...

 

Im in the minority here, but I believe either of these two teams are more deserving for a title shot than the two that are going...

 

You'd have to ask the Rose Bowl that. But I imagine picking Illinois probably gets a lot more viewers from a more populated region of the country than Kansas or Mizzou, for example. I suspect USC-Illinois would get higher ratings than USC-Mizzou/Kansas. The Rose Bowl is also a bit of an exception in that they do value tradition, even over money. They weren't even thrilled to have Texas-Michigan that year they were forced into it.

It keeps the non-BCS conferences from suing the BCS system for non-inclusion, which would cost it a lot of revenue.

It ensures that no single conference gobbles up 30% (in the past, 37.5%) of the BCS revenue by getting 3 out of the the 10 teams (or 8 teams, when originally conceived).

These rules were all specifically put in by the Big 6 conferences to ensure they all get their fair share and maximize their conferences' revenues.

Virtually everything the BCS does is focused on revenue. Some of it is maximizing overall revenue; some of it is ensuring that all the BCS conferences get part of that revenue. None of it is based on putting the best matchups on the field, except the BCS national title game.

 

Ahhh, I see and I agree Arizona State should get the nod over Illinois.

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I still give a rolleyes to Mizzou being left out...[playoffs].