If the BCS still existed in 2023...

[huskerj12]

Let us travel back in time, to a place where "BCS CHAOS" and "BCS BUSTERS" ruled supreme... There is a Twitter account called BCSKnowHow that uses the old BCS formula to show how the rankings would have ended up if college football still used the BCS rankings to determine bowls and national championship matchups. I think it's fun to check out every season just as a hypothetical. This year, this is how the BCS Top 20 would have turned out:

1. Michigan – 13-0 - Big 10 Champion
2. Washington – 13-0 - PAC 12 Champion
3. Alabama – 12-1 - SEC Champion
4. Florida State – 13-0 - ACC Champion
5. Texas – 12-1 - Big 12 Champion
6. Georgia – 12-1
7. Ohio State – 11-1
8. Oregon – 11-2
9. Penn State - 10-2
10. Missouri - 10-2
11. Ole Miss - 10-2
12. Oklahoma - 10-2
13. LSU - 9-3
14. Notre Dame - 9-3
15. Arizona - 9-3
16. Louisville 10-3
17. Liberty - 13-0
18. Cockeye - 10-3
19. SMU - 11-2 - AAC Champion
20. NC State - 9-3

Using those rankings, and the automatic qualifier status of the conference champs noted above, here is how the BCS Bowls might have been set up:

National Championship - Michigan vs. Washington

Rose Bowl - Ohio State vs. Oregon
Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs. Georgia
Sugar Bowl - Alabama vs. SMU
Orange Bowl - Florida State vs. Oklahoma

What do you think? Would this hypothetical BCS bowl season be more or less controversial than the Playoff? More or less entertaining? More or less effective at deciding a national champion?

 

[Alcaus]

I don't think there's anything wrong with this BCS setup but I think I'll be a bigger fan of the expanded playoff moving forward.

There seems to be a bit more parity than usual this year, so it's nice to see the post-season determined on something other than a single non-con loss from September.

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

Still can’t believe they left FSU out.

 

[IM4NUALWAYS]

Let us travel back in time, to a place where "BCS CHAOS" and "BCS BUSTERS" ruled supreme... There is a Twitter account called BCSKnowHow that uses the old BCS formula to show how the rankings would have ended up if college football still used the BCS rankings to determine bowls and national championship matchups. I think it's fun to check out every season just as a hypothetical. This year, this is how the BCS Top 20 would have turned out:

1. Michigan – 13-0 - Big 10 Champion
2. Washington – 13-0 - PAC 12 Champion
3. Alabama – 12-1 - SEC Champion
4. Florida State – 13-0 - ACC Champion
5. Texas – 12-1 - Big 12 Champion
6. Georgia – 12-1
7. Ohio State – 11-1
8. Oregon – 11-2
9. Penn State - 10-2
10. Missouri - 10-2
11. Ole Miss - 10-2
12. Oklahoma - 10-2
13. LSU - 9-3
14. Notre Dame - 9-3
15. Arizona - 9-3
16. Louisville 10-3
17. Liberty - 13-0
18. Cockeye - 10-3
19. SMU - 11-2 - AAC Champion
20. NC State - 9-3

Using those rankings, and the automatic qualifier status of the conference champs noted above, here is how the BCS Bowls might have been set up:

National Championship - Michigan vs. Washington

Rose Bowl - Ohio State vs. Oregon
Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs. Georgia
Sugar Bowl - Alabama vs. SMU
Orange Bowl - Florida State vs. Oklahoma

What do you think? Would this hypothetical BCS bowl season be more or less controversial than the Playoff? More or less entertaining? More or less effective at deciding a national champion?

Way less because the top 2 were a no brainer. After that no one cares.

 

[JankTheTank]

I've always been the mentality that if you are a one loss team complaining that you are not in the championship, then you should have taken care of business better on the field. That's where Bama and Texas should have found themselves with one of the two getting in and the other one sitting home complaining. For the one complaining, they should have won that one game they lost to remove the controversy.

I think the BCS example above is less controversial because at that point you're forced to pick what you feel like are the top 2 teams with three undefeated conference winners on the list. It's still controversial because you have an updefeated team on the outside looking in, but controversy is expected in that case. And if it were up to me, yeah, Washington v. Michigan is the match up and FSU is left out. It's honestly pretty cut and dry.

The controversy to me is that the four team playoff created the exact same issue it was expected to solve, and it's worse when it has the full capacity to solve it, but chooses to go in a different direction anyway.

 

[huskerj12]

The controversy to me is that the four team playoff created the exact same issue it was expected to solve, and it's worse when it has the full capacity to solve it, but chooses to go in a different direction anyway.

Perfectly said

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

If Alabama wins the playoff and FSU throttles Georgia could we get a split title? That would be awesome.

 

[slattimer]

Let us travel back in time, to a place where "BCS CHAOS" and "BCS BUSTERS" ruled supreme... There is a Twitter account called BCSKnowHow that uses the old BCS formula to show how the rankings would have ended up if college football still used the BCS rankings to determine bowls and national championship matchups. I think it's fun to check out every season just as a hypothetical. This year, this is how the BCS Top 20 would have turned out:

1. Michigan – 13-0 - Big 10 Champion
2. Washington – 13-0 - PAC 12 Champion
3. Alabama – 12-1 - SEC Champion
4. Florida State – 13-0 - ACC Champion
5. Texas – 12-1 - Big 12 Champion
6. Georgia – 12-1
7. Ohio State – 11-1
8. Oregon – 11-2
9. Penn State - 10-2
10. Missouri - 10-2
11. Ole Miss - 10-2
12. Oklahoma - 10-2
13. LSU - 9-3
14. Notre Dame - 9-3
15. Arizona - 9-3
16. Louisville 10-3
17. Liberty - 13-0
18. Cockeye - 10-3
19. SMU - 11-2 - AAC Champion
20. NC State - 9-3

Using those rankings, and the automatic qualifier status of the conference champs noted above, here is how the BCS Bowls might have been set up:

National Championship - Michigan vs. Washington

Rose Bowl - Ohio State vs. Oregon
Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs. Georgia
Sugar Bowl - Alabama vs. SMU
Orange Bowl - Florida State vs. Oklahoma

What do you think? Would this hypothetical BCS bowl season be more or less controversial than the Playoff? More or less entertaining? More or less effective at deciding a national champion?

Use it to determine the top 12, kick out the "committee". Looks good.

 

[Ext. 55]

Let us travel back in time, to a place where "BCS CHAOS" and "BCS BUSTERS" ruled supreme... There is a Twitter account called BCSKnowHow that uses the old BCS formula to show how the rankings would have ended up if college football still used the BCS rankings to determine bowls and national championship matchups. I think it's fun to check out every season just as a hypothetical. This year, this is how the BCS Top 20 would have turned out:

1. Michigan – 13-0 - Big 10 Champion
2. Washington – 13-0 - PAC 12 Champion
3. Alabama – 12-1 - SEC Champion
4. Florida State – 13-0 - ACC Champion
5. Texas – 12-1 - Big 12 Champion
6. Georgia – 12-1
7. Ohio State – 11-1
8. Oregon – 11-2
9. Penn State - 10-2
10. Missouri - 10-2
11. Ole Miss - 10-2
12. Oklahoma - 10-2
13. LSU - 9-3
14. Notre Dame - 9-3
15. Arizona - 9-3
16. Louisville 10-3
17. Liberty - 13-0
18. Cockeye - 10-3
19. SMU - 11-2 - AAC Champion
20. NC State - 9-3

Using those rankings, and the automatic qualifier status of the conference champs noted above, here is how the BCS Bowls might have been set up:

National Championship - Michigan vs. Washington

Rose Bowl - Ohio State vs. Oregon
Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs. Georgia
Sugar Bowl - Alabama vs. SMU
Orange Bowl - Florida State vs. Oklahoma

What do you think? Would this hypothetical BCS bowl season be more or less controversial than the Playoff? More or less entertaining? More or less effective at deciding a national champion?

Good post...and still no Nebraska in a bowl. Damnit!

 

[IM4NUALWAYS]

If Alabama wins the playoff and FSU throttles Georgia could we get a split title? That would be awesome.

Coaches poll. lol

 

[iruletheskool]

Should be 8 or 16. We're going to fight over the same stuff when FSU doesnt get a bye but Bama does

 

[Stan Raymond]

Let us travel back in time, to a place where "BCS CHAOS" and "BCS BUSTERS" ruled supreme... There is a Twitter account called BCSKnowHow that uses the old BCS formula to show how the rankings would have ended up if college football still used the BCS rankings to determine bowls and national championship matchups. I think it's fun to check out every season just as a hypothetical. This year, this is how the BCS Top 20 would have turned out:

1. Michigan – 13-0 - Big 10 Champion
2. Washington – 13-0 - PAC 12 Champion
3. Alabama – 12-1 - SEC Champion
4. Florida State – 13-0 - ACC Champion
5. Texas – 12-1 - Big 12 Champion
6. Georgia – 12-1
7. Ohio State – 11-1
8. Oregon – 11-2
9. Penn State - 10-2
10. Missouri - 10-2
11. Ole Miss - 10-2
12. Oklahoma - 10-2
13. LSU - 9-3
14. Notre Dame - 9-3
15. Arizona - 9-3
16. Louisville 10-3
17. Liberty - 13-0
18. Cockeye - 10-3
19. SMU - 11-2 - AAC Champion
20. NC State - 9-3

Using those rankings, and the automatic qualifier status of the conference champs noted above, here is how the BCS Bowls might have been set up:

National Championship - Michigan vs. Washington

Rose Bowl - Ohio State vs. Oregon
Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs. Georgia
Sugar Bowl - Alabama vs. SMU
Orange Bowl - Florida State vs. Oklahoma

What do you think? Would this hypothetical BCS bowl season be more or less controversial than the Playoff? More or less entertaining? More or less effective at deciding a national champion?

A lot less controversy with this method this year.

There is a myth that adding more teams makes less controversy. But that isn't true, controversy occurs when there are more legitimate comparable teams than there are spots for them to take.

 

[Ext. 55]

This conversation would be a lot cooler if we were 11-1.

Just sayin. Yeah, I'm still a little bitter.

 

[huskerj12]

This conversation would be a lot cooler if we were 11-1.

Just sayin. Yeah, I'm still a little bitter.

Siiiiiigh what I would give to be controversially left out of a national championship game right now.

 

[Ext. 55]

Siiiiiigh what I would give to be controversially left out of a national championship game right now.

Absolute Heaven is what that would be! Oh the happy rage of being #5 right now!!! Relevancy…the good old days