FIX IT

Once again, voters’ opinions have thrown the national championship race into turmoil. How it’s possible that Oklahoma is ranked ahead of Texas, who beat them, is beyond me. And again, as I wrote last week, no way does USC deserve to be ranked ahead of Texas Tech.
The NCAA has always been a duplicitous beast. It [...]

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USC Leapfrogs Texas Tech?

AP voters, you’ve really screwed up this time. With USC leapfrogging Tech in the most recent polls, the BCS picture–still not reliable due to its dependence on voters’ opinions–is once again screwed up.
Let’s look at the losses these two teams have suffered. Both have one loss; USC’s to Oregon State, a 7-3 team with a [...]

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How to Fix College Football

Talk radio is rife with talk of unfairness and the want of a playoff. As for the unfairness, I say bull. No other team deserved to be in the championship game than the two that were there. There might have been equals, but none more deserving. And as for the playoff: It ain’t gonna happen, [...]

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The Super Conference College Football Top 25 Poll

IF the NCAA would adopt the Super Conference format, and IF these teams all were playing an SC schedule in 2007 AND still had the same record against that competition as they do now, this is what the SC poll would look like today:

Ohio State (10-0)
LSU (8-1)
Oregon (8-1)
Oklahoma (8-1)
West Virginia (8-1)
Michigan (8-2)
Texas (8-2)
USC (7-2)
Virginia Tech [...]

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Oh yeah, and there are some other games, too…

Oregon vs. Arizona St
Two teams with one loss between them in a game which could be the deciding factor in who plays for the National Championship. If the Buckeyes lose this weekend and Bama beats LSU, look for the winner of this game to vault to at least number two, if not past BC into #1, [...]

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The Super Conference College Football Top 25 Poll

These are the top 25 teams of the NCAA (unaffiliated) Super Conference according to wins. Note: The teams in this poll do not adhere to the tenets of the Super Conference scheduling system which ranks teams based on schedule equality and wins alone so therefore these standings are purely speculative based on the inherent inadequacies of their current schedules. For [...]

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Super Conference

Super Conference Primer
The idea is simple, really, and it would cure what ails college football today. No more would a Utah or a Boise State vie for an undeserved BCS game just because they went undefeated in the regular season. And, with the increased level of competition the title game would not be in question. Teams in [...]

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NCAA BCS Football: The Houndstooth Poll

Here’s the inaugural Houndstooth Top 10 Poll:

South Florida — A non-traditional team that might be overachieving but at least has played some decent competition (unlike Hawaii) and come away with nothing but victories.
Ohio State – OSU is just coming to the really meaty part of their schedule.
Oregon — If they beat USC they could win out [...]

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