Sunday, November 18, 2012

I HAD to add this.....NCAA, please adopt a new system.

Prologue:

The 2012 season sure has had plenty of excitement in the past couple of weeks with Alabama losing to Texas A&M on November 10, and in the following week seeing both new No. 1 Kansas State and No. 2 Oregon go down in the same week which hadn't happened since 2007 when No. 1 Missouri and No. 2 West Virginia both lost. However, there have been plenty of other upsets in the previous weeks with a steady change in guard outside of the No. 1 spot in the nation. I feel that this "chaos" has perhaps left voters confused.....or rather over-hyped and subjective, which doesn't work well when you are nationally influencing a ranking system that has such a profound effect in the NCAA college football realm.

As such, I lead to saying this: The whole and entire college football rankings systems (BCS and AP) are complete [insert profanity and the term "non-sense"]. That seems to be a consensus nationwide that we can ALL agree on (something that I don't EVER foreseeing in politics). I'm not just going to blow hot air like the rest. I have PROOF!

-->Proof!: In weeks 1-9, Florida State ranked higher than Georgia (they both lost their only loss in the same week (Week 6)).
Then in Week 10, they got the pass in the AP poll, all along being ranked higher than Florida State in the BCS.
Now, even though both teams have continued to win their games, Georgia has continued to move up while Florida State slipped back from #8 to #10 (Texas A&M and LSU pass them).
-->End Proof.


You should clearly see that despite following the exact same W/L path, Georgia has moved ahead of Florida State at no fault of FSU's own all while being ranked higher from the get go in the BCS poll.
If you looked 10 some years ago and saw Florida State 10-1, you'd have them either 1 or 2. No question. However, we now look at the "strength", "size", and "talent" of players as well as team play to determine who is the better undefeated or 1-2 loss team. IN FACT, we don't just do that, but perhaps look MORE so at these same factors for their team opponents (better known as "strength of schedule"). The voters see the SEC teams with 0 or 1 losses as better than any other team with the same record or sometimes even better because the SEC is synonymous with "Big man/Grown man" football. So they argue that any ACC team is worth the least to beat while beating an SEC foe is the best with Pac-12, Big Ten, and Big 12 mixed in between in some order.

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