OT: Sticking It to the BCS

[duckman]

http://www.foxsports.com/content/view?contentId=2504614

I like this idea! Especially if it would pissed the BCS conferences off.

[KevinNU7]

Man they are finding ways to make the bowl games not in the Top 10 really shitty

[ISiddiqui]

Hehe... if it pisses off the BCS conferences, I'm for it.

[duckman]

I like the idea that we could see very interesting match-ups that are not just conference tie-ins. Seeing a Texas-Florida game would have been much more appealing than last year's original game in the Citrus Bowl.

[ScottVib]

It's interesting but I think it's a long shot at best. I can't imagine a bowl like the Gator Bowl volunteering to risk it's guarenteed ACC #2 and then just waiting in line behind some other bowl and risking getting a lessor lineup.

I don't know that it "sticks it to the BCS" as the bowls will probably fill themselves with BCS conference teams, it's just going to reduce the cost certainty for the conferences as some years they might have 3 or 4 teams in those second tier type bowls, and others they might have 1. It might provide a small opening for "non-BCS" schools to potentially get into a more prestigious bowl (assuming they haven't qualified for the BCS autobid)

That said I'd be all for it, if it happened... it would be interesting to see what happened to the downstream bowls, would they all goto an at large situation (which would be a good thing IMO (if that had happened UConn probably would have been bowling last year)) or do they stick with their conference guarentees, knowing that it's more likely that a given bowl will have a vacancy in a given year. (Say the SEC puts 4 teams in those bowls as opposed to their normal 2-3 spots in them, that's one more bowl eligible team they'd need for their bowl tie ins, and that bottom tie in is more likely to be open each year. (Last year Navy got an at large bid to the Houston bowl since the SEC couldn't fill it's bids))

[SunDancer]

It's interesting but I think it's a long shot at best. I can't imagine a bowl like the Gator Bowl volunteering to risk it's guarenteed ACC #2 and then just waiting in line behind some other bowl and risking getting a lessor lineup.

I don't know that it "sticks it to the BCS" as the bowls will probably fill themselves with BCS conference teams, it's just going to reduce the cost certainty for the conferences as some years they might have 3 or 4 teams in those second tier type bowls, and others they might have 1. It might provide a small opening for "non-BCS" schools to potentially get into a more prestigious bowl (assuming they haven't qualified for the BCS autobid)

That said I'd be all for it, if it happened... it would be interesting to see what happened to the downstream bowls, would they all goto an at large situation (which would be a good thing IMO (if that had happened UConn probably would have been bowling last year)) or do they stick with their conference guarentees, knowing that it's more likely that a given bowl will have a vacancy in a given year. (Say the SEC puts 4 teams in those bowls as opposed to their normal 2-3 spots in them, that's one more bowl eligible team they'd need for their bowl tie ins, and that bottom tie in is more likely to be open each year. (Last year Navy got an at large bid to the Houston bowl since the SEC couldn't fill it's bids))

The Gator Bowl is losing it's power card with the Big East falling apart (and not providing the "name teams"). My question would be, would these bowls take teams that should not be in these games, going for "name and fan base" over production?

[Huckleberry]

I like the idea that we could see very interesting match-ups that are not just conference tie-ins. Seeing a Texas-Florida game would have been much more appealing than last year's original game in the Citrus Bowl.

Yeah, duckman, that would have been fantastic. An all-time classic battle. They could have hyped it as:

THE BATTLE TO SEE WHICH COACHING STAFF CAN UNDERCOACH THEIR VERY TALENTED PLAYERS THE WORST!!!

[Glengoyne]

Anything that screws with the BCS is good for College football. Then again this would probably further complicate my prefered solution of a playoff.

[duckman]

Yeah, duckman, that would have been fantastic. An all-time classic battle. They could have hyped it as:

THE BATTLE TO SEE WHICH COACHING STAFF CAN UNDERCOACH THEIR VERY TALENTED PLAYERS THE WORST!!!
Is that saracsm is hear? ;)