And the College Football season begins!!!

[Crothian]

ya, there is something about being on a big college campus football weekend

 

[drothgery]

while the Ohio Bobcats don't play USC, it is suprising since USC only seems to play those teams of lesser quality.

Bah. The Pac-10 is looking strong this year (ASU and Cal are ranked already; UCLA will be after they beat Oklahoma), Notre Dame is looking very good, and Fresno State seems to be the best of the non-BCS teams. Arkansas is off to a poor start but they're still an SEC team, and going to Hawaii has always been a trap game.

Besides, being a Pac 10 team, USC prefers to beat up teams from the WAC and MWC; MAC and CUSA teams are victims of the more eastern conferences. Heck, I'm not quite sure why SDSU is playing the Buckeyes in the Horshoe; if you're going to play SDSU, make it a late season game and come to San Diego to get out of the cold, it's not like the Aztecs will actually win, so you might as well have some fun. Also, I might actually show up

 

[Crothian]

I have no idea why OSU plays San Diego State, they've played them a lot in the past years it seems.

 

[Dimwhit]

and Fresno State seems to be the best of the non-BCS teams.

I'll never understand this. Every year Fresno gets this kind of attention (and even ranking) and every year they fall off. The last three years it's been Boise knocking them off (and others), who knows this year. I'll just never understand why that program gets so much respect when they never end a season with much to show.

Sorry, I'll stop ranting.

Fact is, the non-BCS teams are weak this year. Louisville is now BCS, Utah isn't the same, TCU is up and down, Boise has lost the first two (at least to good teams), who knows about Fresno...it's not looking like a good year for the non-BCS to make much of a statement.

 

[Crothian]

Becasue people remeber the Fresno Stat upsets of other teams. And while that doesn't matter this year, they are at least known for that type of stuff. So, they get more respect.

 

[Dimwhit]

Becasue people remeber the Fresno Stat upsets of other teams. And while that doesn't matter this year, they are at least known for that type of stuff. So, they get more respect.

I'll give them that. They do well against BCS opponents. Then come back to the WAC and lose. They're just a weird team that way.

 

[Dungannon]

Here's my Wacky College Footbal Proposal of the Weektm.

For your conference to receive an automatic BCS bid, you must have 12 teams and have a Championship Game. And no more "special rules" for Notre Dame. The ACC, SEC, and Big 12 would stay unchanged, Conference USA would replace the Big East (pretty much the same talent level between those two), and Notre Dame would finally join the Big 10 to make that conference 12 teams. (although they'll probably still call themselves the Big 10, but that's another discussion). The big question is, which two schools would the Pac 10 invite? I suggest they take one team from the WAC and one team from Mountain West, Boise State and Utah.

Feel free to comment and/or ridicule at your leisure.

 

[Crothian]

no conferance games, instead all BCS conferances have to play at least 2 teams from other BCS Conferances.

Notre Dame is welcome to jion the Big Ten any time.

 

[drothgery]

Here's my Wacky College Footbal Proposal of the Weektm.

For your conference to receive an automatic BCS bid, you must have 12 teams and have a Championship Game. And no more "special rules" for Notre Dame. The ACC, SEC, and Big 12 would stay unchanged, Conference USA would replace the Big East (pretty much the same talent level between those two), and Notre Dame would finally join the Big 10 to make that conference 12 teams. (although they'll probably still call themselves the Big 10, but that's another discussion). The big question is, which two schools would the Pac 10 invite? I suggest they take one team from the WAC and one team from Mountain West, Boise State and Utah.

Feel free to comment and/or ridicule at your leisure.

(obDisclaimer: I'm a Syracuse fan, was born in Big 10 country, and presently live in Pac 10 country.)

Any proposal that requires the Big 10 and Pac 10 to change their membership is dead on arrival. And there's not really a logical way for the Pac 10 to expand; logistics demand a pair of teams close to each other, but BYU & Utah probably won't work because BYU doesn't play games on Sunday, and the only other thing that's even remotely possible--Colorado and Colorado State-- requires raiding from the Big 12.

The Big 10 won't expand until/unless Notre Dame makes a definitive decision on joining a football conference (and they won't do that before their TV deal runs out). If Weiss is successful (and it looks like he will be right now), the Irish won't join a conference, and the Big 10 might consider adding Missouri, Iowa State, Pitt, or Syracuse. But the Big 12 schools have little reason to leave, and the Big East has instituted heavy withdrawl penalities in the wake of the ACC raid.

Secondly, the MWC is much, much stronger than CUSA, easily the best non-BCS conference. And they're not even close to the Big East. If you somehow got the conferences to agree that only 12-team conferences with a title game got an automatic BCS bid, the Big East would raid CUSA and/or the MAC to get to 12 teams, and it the Big East would stay in (if all such conferences received an autobid, the MWC would raid Boise State, Fresno State, and one other team from the WAC, and CUSA would pick off someone to replace further Big East defections).

 

[drothgery]

no conferance games, instead all BCS conferances have to play at least 2 teams from other BCS Conferances.

As soon as there are any BCS teams even close to the Pac 10 other than Colorado, that'll fly. Geography matters, people...