There isn't much room to complain if you are an LSU fan. The Pac-10 will always go with their Big-10 and Pac-10 historical tie ins. LSU gets a good matchup against ND in the Sugar with a historical SEC tie-in. At least LSU wasn't stuck with Wake Forest or Boise State as an opponent.
First off the BCS worked. The complaint in 2003 was that the computers had too much control over the final results and obscure games on the island of Hawaii had bearing on who went to the NCG. Now the computer element has been lessened and the human factor has taken over and everyone is bitching because the human factor influenced this one too much and bumped Michigan into an also ran. No offense but this arguement is stupid. You can't have it both ways. Short of a playoff this is what we have. It screws some and helps others. Either way I'm happy...the Rose gets it's Pac10/Big10 match-up and we get Notre Dame in the Sugar. All good in my book... The SEC has a team in the NCG and in a BCS bowl game. They are happy with that result. 9 SEC teams in bowl games overall. The SEC has no complaints.
That was the complaint in '03, because the media couldn't control who went where. The computers aren't as biased as people. And I'm saying this knowing that the computers didn't favor us this year or last (before the loss to UGA). Besides, it wasn't entirely the computers that swung this one. The humans shifted their votes as well.
Not unhappy about LSU getting a BCS game at all. Just stated that if they would have chosen Michigan it could have been a major catalyst to a playoff system. From listening to some of the sportstalk shows and also Fowler (whom is one of the only one's I like on ESPN) state that there were rumblings behind the scenes in the SEC if they got screwed again. What that was I don't guess anyone will ever know now. Who knows maybe it was just SEC propaganda to get there team in the big show. Then again this is just talk from shows and people who say they are in the know. But we all know how much that can add up to in the end. I hope LSU crushes ND in the Sugar and wish I could go to the game. B
:hihi: I seriously doubt that any other conference in America has 9 teams in bowl games. 9!!! So we will hold our heads high, whoop ND in the Sugar, and pray that SOMEONE that matters will wake up and institute a playoff system in he near future. And for those who still spout the mantra that the bowl system makes too much money to be scrapper, try this: if the geniuses who came up with the bowl system are so smart, surely someone in the almighty NCAA can come up with a way for a playoff system to be a cash cow richer than even the bowls. The problem? It would be DIFFERENT people making the money under the playoff system. Having said all that, I'll close with this: LSU - 45 ND - 16 :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige
Well actually, that year the Pac10 whined so much about the strength of schedule(which nudged USC in '03) that it's impact was reduced in the following year, and actually wound up hurting Auburn in 2004. Also could have hurt Fla this yr as it weighed less, but the human voters got it right. But overall, you are right....not much will change to make it better. Michigan gets the shaft this year, but having already played the #1 team(and lost) and not winning their conference, they don't have much of an arguement. It would be nice if everyone had to play a conference championship or at least win the their conference outright. That would probably be the next tweek. SEC really hurts itself with that some years. This year however, it got Fla to the NCG. In 2003 it got us there. May as well get used to no playoffs because the college presidents will never allow it.
OK...so someone decided to give me red for the first comment of my post so I figure since they didn't read my whole post I'd explain. The reason the BCS is set up this way now is because of what happened in 2003...the computers determined the match-up. Now we have more of the human factor involved and it swung the other way. It worked the way everyone would have wanted it to in 2003. SO yes...it worked. Not to everyones satisfaction though.
