Maybe the BCS isn't so bad for Texas

[Bill in Sinton]

I still would rather have a playoff but the powers that be oppose and are killing it.
Actually it may be a good think in a way.
The thing is as Texas we basically control our own destiny. If we win all our games and win the Big 12 championship then we have a good chance of being invited to the BCS championship game. In fact I think our odds are 99% in our favor. Other schools such as Oklahoma, USC, Florida, etc. are probably in the same catagory . Other teams like Boise State, Cincinatti (thank goodness) and TCU don't have that control.
The main thing is once we lose it is in the system and the odds go down. But still we control our destiny and maybe that is a good thing.
I still would rather have a playoff but since it is a few years down the road the BCS may not be too bad for us.

 

[n64ra]

it worked well for us in 2009

 

[Texas Taps]

When an undefeated Texas is left out of the championship game, then I'll worry

 

[Longhorny630]

Screwed us in 2008

 

[UTEE]

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[rickysrun]

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[UTEE]

Right, but that's exactly my point. Other teams have caught the breaks, Texas has not.

2008 was especially dismal, but it hasn't worked out for us in other years either. The BCS has done us absolutely zero favors, while other schools have been given multiple passes.

 

[gecko]

I don't mind the current system....its stringing the BCS bowls and MNC game out over 7 days after new years that pisses me off.

 

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[Bill in Sinton]

UTEE don't forget that a Nebraska with several losses almost knocked us out of the BCS game anyway.

 

[Dionysus]

The BCS numbers for us in 2008 were unfavorable mostly due to the timing of our loss.

 

[Longhorny630]

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[rickysrun]

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[UTEE]

Rickysrun--

I understand what you're saying, I just don't agree. In 2001 Nebraska shot itself in the foot with a 62-36 loss in its final game of the season, yet the system didn't punish them for it, rather it rewarded them with a trip to the MNC game. In 2003 Oklahoma shot itself in the foot in the last game of the season which was also the B12 CCG and once again the system failed to punish them for it and put them on through to the BCS MNC title game.

Yet any and every time Texas has "shot itself in the foot" the system has immediately disregarded us. And the fact that the TIMING of a loss is usually more important in this beauty pageant system than is the location of the loss, is reason enough to kill it. (Unless you're Nebraska or Oklahoma, then you can lose the last game of the season and still get into the BCS title game).

But I agree, a 16-team playoff with potentially 4-loss teams included wouldn't be very good either. Eight teams is plenty for a playoff. I have a lot less sympathy for the 2-loss or even 3-loss team that doesn't make the 8/9 cutoff, than I do for the potentially undefeated team that doesn't make the 2/3 cutoff.

 

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[Orangeblood90]

^^^^This^^^^

 

[borna_horn]

What is the common denominator in 2001, 2003, and 2008?

The COMPUTERS

Take out the computers and use only human polling, and you get:

Oregon in 2001, not Nebraska
USC in 2003, not Oklahoma
Texas in 2008, not Oklahoma

I have been on a soapbox on this for almost ten years now. It is asinine to use a formula that bases comparisons on games that don't even involve the teams in question, such as last year where Nebraska making a long kick to beat Colorado and Kansas coming back on Missouri possibly made the difference in OU getting in ahead of Texas. That is asinine. Leave it in the hands of the voters where at least we can understand what is going on and there is some form of accountability.

On another note, Texas has gone undefeated seven times since the advent of the AP Poll in 1936. We have played for the national championship all seven times and never any other time. That is pretty clearcut.

 

[ImissWallyPryor]

We were screwed more by the Big 12 rule in 2008. If the tie breaker rules put Texas in the CCG, we would have passed OU in the BCS and had a crack at UF.

 

[Bill in Sinton]

If we keep getting rooked by the Big 12 consistently then we should consider another conference or go independent. I think we are one of the few schools that could make it as an independent.
The thing that has been correctly pointed out is that we have never had a break. That time when Oklahoma was whipped in the Big 12 championship and then got invited to the MNC was a farce and disgrace to the BCS even though I don't think they had enough sense to realize it.