Yep, the groundwork has definitely been laid. I thought the plus 1 was a monumental step in that direction, even though it wasn't what I had hoped for, which was the 5th game being between the winners of whomever was #1 and #2 after the BCS bowl games. But it was a start, and quite a significant one. We just need more highly touted super powers to get screwed (Michigan, Ohio State, USC, Notre Dame, Miami, Florida State) and then we will get somewhere. It won't help anything when teams like Auburn or West Virginia get screwed. We'll all just forget about that. Of course the AP never having agreed with the BCS on crowning the BCS champ led to their ultimate demise of being left out the mix in the new BCS formula (enter the Harris poll). And rightfully so.
I too believe that the BCSNC game was set up for the plus-one system. They will do it IMO but dont expect it to expnad until they capitilize on it first and fans and media start complaining again. Nice little pattern they are setting us up for.
USC kind of did get screwed in 2003. Oklahoma had no business in the Sugar Bowl. I don't have a problem with the whole AP National Champion thing, because had the roles been reversed, you better believe we'd all claim it as legit. See you at the Rose Bowl.......
USC lost to a bad unranked team that lost six or seven games. They only played one ranked team all season. As bad as the Oklahoma loss was, USC didn't have any gripe about not making it. Miami, no, not that Miami, Miami of Ohio had a stronger season than USC.
USC didn't get screwed enough, the AP voted them champs. Why u think Petey boy played all that shyt down and to this day still acts like he clueless about the entire BCS process? Man, he has someone just like me hacking away at a phucking computer crunching numbers til 5 in the morning. Pete Caroll is such a lame ass with that silly act.
Oklahoma lost to Kansas State by FOUR touchdowns. In their last game of the season. It is disgraceful that they were allowed to limp in to the BCS title game. Yes, USC lost to the Cal Bears. But LSU lost at home to a Ron Zook-coached team. I don't know which is worse (actually I do, but I'm afraid to say).
Having your heisman trophy QB throw 0 td's and 2 int's while losing by 4 TD's is worse. And USC did not get screwed, LSU did. LSU was deservingly #2 and won the national championship game, yet USC can claim a share of the title on the basis of their win over then-ranked #4 Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Who got the short end of the stick there??
