About College Football's BCS ranking system...

[Magnum357]

Although this has nothing too do with Professional sports, I'm wondering why the NCAA doesn't look at a system for ranking already used in the Football world.

In Semi-pro Football, the AFA (American Football Association) uses a ranking system that is fairly basic and takes into account standings, schedules, and points. I forgot how the formula goes with the AFA's ranking system, but its pretty simple compared to the BCS and it seems to be fairly accurate on how good teams really are. The following link goes to a website called "American Football News" which I think are the guys that report the ranking system.

http://afn.shorturl.com/

Now why couldn't the BCS guys used a system similar to this one? The AFA's ranking system seems much more logical then this BCS stuff, and much less contraversy.

[SignGuyDino]

Logic has nothing to do with the NCAA with their biggest cash cows.


There are over 180-200 teams in Division IA, right? That's a lot more than semipro. Frankly, there are semipro teams that take themselves seriously, and many that don't.

Frankly, they should have a playoff system with conference champions only invited. No more of this Nebraska and Oklahoma BS!!

Of course, that would involve major involuntary realignments to make it work. It may mean pushing some teams to I-AA and move some of the I-AA's into a new "I-AAA". (Hell, while we're at it, let's have promotions and relegations like in soccer. :lol: )

The good thing about the BCS is that every game is a game I want to see.

Polls and computers should be for the other bowl games in the holidays, not for determining a national champion.

[Sykotyk]

There's 117 I-A teams.

I still think the BCS works as a ranking system for a playoff, but not reliable enough to determine the top two teams.

Right now it's #4 Michigan vs. #1 USC and #3 Oklahoma vs. #2 LSU. What could be better than Jan. 11 having a game between the winners?

My idea has always been a playoff between conference champions. All eleven of them. Rotate the Big Six conferences so each year one of the non-conference championship game conferences has to play in the first round with the MWC, WAC, CUSA, MAC, and Sun Belt. All on campus, with the seeding decided by the BCS. Then the next round has all eight teams seeded by BCS. All on campus until the final, which would be a regular bowl game.

And keep the bowl games. All non-conference champions can immediately be selected for a Bowl game, with the playoff participants playing for bowl games just like in conference seed. For instance, one of the BCS bowls could say, 'we want the #1 team from the semifinal vs. #2 from the quarterfinals'.

You keep the bowls, you get a playoff, the regular season is still meaningful, and it gives the rest of the Division I-A schools a chance.

Sykotyk

[Herk]

Conference Champions should not automatically make the playoffs. It should be the top 16 teams determined by the BCS. Otherwise you have too many crappy teams that just made the playoffs cause there in a weak league. It would screw over leagues like the Big 10, big 12 and SEC which have several top tier football teams every year. The top team in the Sun Belt, North Texas isn't even a top 50 ball club in I-A. unlike college basketball the probability of minor teams doing good is very very slim to none. The Sun belt isn't even exactly a legit I-A league, as next year there allowing Florida Atlantic and Florida International to join the conference even though both teams wont be fully I-A teams until at least 2005 or 2006.