College (Football) Pick 'Em

[Dungannon]

Okay, so I've been thinking about this for a bit. A lot of complaints about the current BCS setup say it's unfair to the mid-major conferences, that it's unfair to deserving at large teams from BCS conferences. Well, I have a scenario I'd like to propose. I know in reality it will never happen because the four current BCS bowls would never approve it, but let us, as fans, think about it for a second.

Expand the BCS by two bowls and add the MAC, WAC, and Mountain West. More decent, competitive mid-major programs would compete against traditional powers and it would also open up a third at-large bid. The question then becomes, which two bowl games do you add? My vote would be for the Cotton Bowl and the Gator Bowl. I would've voted for the Citrus Bowl if they hadn't completely sold out and changed the name to the Capital One Bowl and I briefly considered the Holiday Bowl but that one's not a traditional "New Year's Day" bowl.

 

[Dimwhit]

I'm not sure which bowl I'd add, and the downside would be that there would be undeserving Mid-major teams getting BCS bids. I think A requirement should be set that a team has to be ranked in the Top 12 to get an automatic bid. And maybe a team would have to be ranked in the Top 20 to be eligible. That way, only deserving mid-majors would get in. And in the case of Florida State this year, they wouldn't have receieved the automatic bid and instead a 3rd at-large would be created.

Maybe combine your idea with mine, but only add 1 additional bowl bid, with maybe the best Mid-major team guaranteed a BCS game (assuming it's in the Top 20). That would create a third at-large bid and a Mid-major bid. That would satisfy me quite a bit.

 

[Jaws]

D&D.
(Thursday's my tabletop game night)

Same here. I just finished DMing the second installment of the Age of Worms adventure path.

Total PC deaths so far = 10. So sweet. Mostly the same two players. One player - 1, another 4, and the other 5. And I have up to 8 players. Usually number is 6.


Peace and smiles

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[drothgery]

Maybe combine your idea with mine, but only add 1 additional bowl bid, with maybe the best Mid-major team guaranteed a BCS game (assuming it's in the Top 20). That would create a third at-large bid and a Mid-major bid. That would satisfy me quite a bit.

FWIW, the next spin of the BCS (2006-2009) is effectively adding an additional bowl bid, because the BCS title game is going to be played at the site of one of the BCS bowls a week later.

It's probably worth noting that if the Giants and Jets actually get their new retractable-roof stadium built, the Big East is going to try to start a Big Apple/Empire/whatever bowl there, and there's a good chance it would immediately shoot to the top tier to become the Big East's "anchor" bowl in the BCS agreement after the next one (starting in 2010).

 

[drothgery]

... and I moved into the lead. Can't be too smug about it, though; a lot of us are 4-0 at this point.

 

[fett527]

... and I moved into the lead. Can't be too smug about it, though; a lot of us are 4-0 at this point.

yeah, I didn't actually modify any of the points for those games. I just got bored with it. I do wish the they would just do away with the points for Bowl Picks. I think it's fun for 10 games, but not 28.

 

[drothgery]

yeah, I didn't actually modify any of the points for those games. I just got bored with it. I do wish the they would just do away with the points for Bowl Picks. I think it's fun for 10 games, but not 28.

I just didn't like the scaling; it would have been a lot easier if they'd broken the games into four blocks and had us rate them 1-7, or even two blocks of 1-14. It makes the bowl pick-em much more about assigning points correctly than wins and losses. I think USC over Texas is darn near a sure thing, so I put 28 points there; if I'm right about this, it's worth as much the 7 lowest-scored picks combined.

 

[fett527]

I just didn't like the scaling; it would have been a lot easier if they'd broken the games into four blocks and had us rate them 1-7, or even two blocks of 1-14. It makes the bowl pick-em much more about assigning points correctly than wins and losses. I think USC over Texas is darn near a sure thing, so I put 28 points there; if I'm right about this, it's worth as much the 7 lowest-scored picks combined.

And I picked Texas for the "upset" but assigned a low number of points. Of course the Buckeyes are my 28 point team.