{"id":877,"date":"2006-12-04T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T09:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/04\/bcs-madness\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T09:55:50","slug":"bcs-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/04\/bcs-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"BCS Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the participants are set for the Mythical “National Championship” of college football<\/a>. It’s Florida vs. Ohio State, thanks to USC’s loss to UCLA, and we’re going to be treated to about three weeks’ worth of whining about how Michigan got jobbed.<\/p>\n

I pretty much agree with Charles Kuffner<\/a> on this one, though. I dislike the Gators intensely, but I’d rather see them in the “title” game than Michigan. If nothing else, it’s probably the match-up that’s most likely to hasten the introduction of a playoff system, and get the scare quotes off “championship” for college football.<\/p>\n

The standard line from college football purists attempting to justify their insane system is that “every game counts.” The fact that an early-season loss can completely knock a team out of any chance to win a “title” is a feature, not a bug, because this way, “every game counts.” (Leave aside the fact that this just encourages teams to schedule their early games against St. Mary’s of the Blind, and win 84-0, to impress the pollsters…)<\/p>\n

Well, here we have the ultimate extension of “every game counts.” Michigan already played Ohio State, and lost. They had their shot, now give somebody else a chance. If you’re going to decide the “championship” on the basis of a single manufactured game, that game can’t be a rematch. If you want to see a second round of Michigan vs. Ohio State, put in a playoff, and let them earn their way into a real championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the participants are set for the Mythical “National Championship” of college football. It’s Florida vs. Ohio State, thanks to USC’s loss to UCLA, and we’re going to be treated to about three weeks’ worth of whining about how Michigan got jobbed. I pretty much agree with Charles Kuffner on this one, though. I dislike… Continue reading BCS Madness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}