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Horrifically incorrect as usual.

College football still can't decide who the best team is year after year

College football does decide the best team every year because #1 plays # 2 for all the marbles.

All the NCAA Tourney decides is a tournament winner, nothing else. A team that finished in 9th place in its conference (UConn) has no claim to being the best team for the season, all they did was win a tournament.
 
Every game matters in college football so long as you start of ranked pretty high and are in the SEC, PAC12, Big12, or Big10.


Not true, ND started about #20 this season. In 2009 UC started unranked, got to #3, and if Colt McCoy had held on to the football one second longer UC would have been playing for the National Championship.
 
In college basketball a team can go 0-31 during the regular season, get hot at the end, win its conference tournament, win the NCAA Tournament, and be National Champion with a record of 10-31. Go 0-12 in college football you go no where but home.
 
In college basketball a team can go 0-31 during the regular season, get hot at the end, win its conference tournament, win the NCAA Tournament, and be National Champion with a record of 10-31. Go 0-12 in college football you go no where but home.
1999 - Kansas state finished 3rd in final bcs standings and passed by 4th ranked osu and two loss Florida

2000 - kansas state finished 6th in bcs standings and was passed over for bcs game by 8th ranked Michigan

2001 - Miami was ranked #2 in both human polls and got passed over by another one loss team in Florida state for championshop. Another 1 loss team in Washington was passed over as well. Florida state lost while Washington and Miami routed their opponents

2002 - Nebraska made the championship game despite being ranked #4 in both human polls. The computers did not take into account the time of the loss so Nebraska jumped oregon(#2). Nebraska lost and Oregon routed colorado(the 1 team Nebraska lost to)

2004- Oklahoma, LSU and USC all finished with 1 loss. USC got screwed

2005 - Boise state, auburn and Utah went undefeated. All were denied to play in the championship game.

2006- undefeated Boise state denied championship game. Michigan, Wisconsin and Louisville all had 1 losses and were denied the championship game in favor of florida(another 1 loss team)

2007- #6. Missouri was shut out of the bcs entirely. #8 Kansas was selected as one of the at large teams despite Missouri finishing higher in bcs standings. Hawaii was undefeated and did not play for a championship.

2009- Utah and Boise state were undefeated. Both denied a championship game. Utah beat Alabama that year in the sugar bowl to remain the nations only undefeated team but finished #2 in the standings

2010- five teams finished regular season undefeated. Alabama, Texas, Cincy, tcu and Boise state. Boise, Cincy and tcu got screwed

2011- tcu finishes undefeated again. So did Oregon and auburn. Tcu gets screwed....again.
Then The fiesta bowl scandal happened.

Plus one system is adapted for the future

2013- one loss Oregon gets screwed

College football relies too heavily on polls, big conference bias, scheduling cupcake teams, corruption from the bowls and power from the big media companies. It rarely has a true national champion.

College football has the worst postseason to determine a true national champion out of all the sports out there

Ralph, wise up.
 
Yup. Lost by 17 at home to Minnesota and by 23 on the road to an unranked Wisconsin team.

That's unreal and complete horse sh1t. What bothers me is 3 losses total 8 points and we drop from 8 to out and then you throw this stat which adds frustration. No respect at all.

Only thing I can say is Cronin got his wish. Hope he "thrives" on this.
 
1999 - Kansas state finished 3rd in final bcs standings and passed by 4th ranked osu and two loss Florida

2000 - kansas state finished 6th in bcs standings and was passed over for bcs game by 8th ranked Michigan

2001 - Miami was ranked #2 in both human polls and got passed over by another one loss team in Florida state for championshop. Another 1 loss team in Washington was passed over as well. Florida state lost while Washington and Miami routed their opponents

2002 - Nebraska made the championship game despite being ranked #4 in both human polls. The computers did not take into account the time of the loss so Nebraska jumped oregon(#2). Nebraska lost and Oregon routed colorado(the 1 team Nebraska lost to)

2004- Oklahoma, LSU and USC all finished with 1 loss. USC got screwed

2005 - Boise state, auburn and Utah went undefeated. All were denied to play in the championship game.

2006- undefeated Boise state denied championship game. Michigan, Wisconsin and Louisville all had 1 losses and were denied the championship game in favor of florida(another 1 loss team)

2007- #6. Missouri was shut out of the bcs entirely. #8 Kansas was selected as one of the at large teams despite Missouri finishing higher in bcs standings. Hawaii was undefeated and did not play for a championship.

2009- Utah and Boise state were undefeated. Both denied a championship game. Utah beat Alabama that year in the sugar bowl to remain the nations only undefeated team but finished #2 in the standings

2010- five teams finished regular season undefeated. Alabama, Texas, Cincy, tcu and Boise state. Boise, Cincy and tcu got screwed

2011- tcu finishes undefeated again. So did Oregon and auburn. Tcu gets screwed....again.
Then The fiesta bowl scandal happened.

Plus one system is adapted for the future

2013- one loss Oregon gets screwed

College football relies too heavily on polls, big conference bias, scheduling cupcake teams, corruption from the bowls and power from the big media companies. It rarely has a true national champion.

College football has the worst postseason to determine a true national champion out of all the sports out there

Ralph, wise up.

Nothing in this post makes any sense. It is about the 2 best teams meeting for the National Championship, which happens every year. No team in your post finished #1 or #2, if they had they would have played for the National Championship.

You know less about college football vs basketball than you do about conference realignment, and you have shown yourself to know nothing about conference realignment.
 
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Not sure how you can still be ranked after losing twice in a week by a combined score of 158-118.

Because they crushed a top 15 team and beat two top 10 teams. You can't just punish teams for losing, you also have to credit them for winning. They have some bad losses but also some very good wins.
 
Because they crushed a top 15 team and beat two top 10 teams. You can't just punish teams for losing, you also have to credit them for winning. They have some bad losses but also some very good wins.

I respectably disagree. We get punished for a 6 point loss against a ranked team and a 1 point loss against a now ranked team. You can't tell me if UC lost how Illinois did last week it would be the same outcome.
 
Because they crushed a top 15 team and beat two top 10 teams. You can't just punish teams for losing, you also have to credit them for winning. They have some bad losses but also some very good wins.

They are weekly rankings. Illinois went 0-2 last week and they weren't even competitive.
 
Nothing in this post makes any sense. It is about the 2 best teams meeting for the National Championship, which happens every year. No team in your post finished #1 or #2, if they had they would have played for the National Championship.

You know less about college football vs basketball than you do about conference realignment, and you have shown yourself to know nothing about conference realignment.
You are truly in denial if you think A) you are correct and B) college football is not corrupt and a flawed system

You have been wrong on everything conference realignment related and you know it. Everyone here knows it. Your deflection skills need a little work
 
So, I guess you have to be a Big 10 school to lose 3 games and still be ranked
Ohio State loses 3 games (One a blowout) to ranked teams and Mich St. loses to a 9 (blown out) and a 23. Also loses to Miami who got beat by FGCU. I like the Bearcats against either team.
Cats lose to a 19 and 20 and St. Johns by a total of 8 points.
No respect
 
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Meh. I don't really care about rankings at this point.

I'm actually a bit worried that the Cats can finish above .500 in the Big East at this rate.
 
As soon as SK finds his shot, they will be fine. He's too good of shooter to continue the way he has. He's 14 for 47 in the 3 losses. He makes 2 more shots (1 against SJ and the other against NM) they are sitting at 16-1
 
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Anyone else watching the UCONN Loserville game? Good basketball game on that court. Anyone else excited to play UCONN twice in three games? Wowzers
 
I respectably disagree. We get punished for a 6 point loss against a ranked team and a 1 point loss against a now ranked team. You can't tell me if UC lost how Illinois did last week it would be the same outcome.

The difference is the wins. Again, Illinois has beaten OSU, Gonzaga, and crushed Butler. Those are better wins than UC has and is what's getting Illinois placed ahead of UC.

They are weekly rankings. Illinois went 0-2 last week and they weren't even competitive.

News flash, they don't rank the teams just on how they did the past week.
 
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