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Dec. 5th, 2010
Not Exactly Bowled Over
Dec. 5th, 2010 01:16 pmLast couple weeks I've been looking over the Projections of NCAA Bowl Matchups On Yahoo. A recap of the rundown--and there have been changes made...
The top two teams in the BCS play each other in the Championship.
The next eight teams play in the main four "prestige" Bowl games (The Sugar Bowl in New Orleans; the Orange Bowl in Miami; the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona; the Rose Bowl in Pasadena).
There are THIRTY lower-rank Bowl games held across the Nation this year. Two new Bowl games have been added this year.
That means SEVENTY teams get to the postseason...and there are only 108 teams in Division I football! (In theory, with twelve leagues/conferences and twelve teams per league, they could have 144 teams in Div I.)
The matchups, as they look now, favor the larger conferences (those that have more teams) than the smaller ones. I'm not sure that I like that...and at the same time, I think there needs to be some more flexibility to the system. Have teams that aren't likely to play each other matched up in bowls to prevent the possibility of rematches. Send teams to cities they've never visited before. Things like that. Make it more interesting.
The top two teams in the BCS play each other in the Championship.
The next eight teams play in the main four "prestige" Bowl games (The Sugar Bowl in New Orleans; the Orange Bowl in Miami; the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona; the Rose Bowl in Pasadena).
There are THIRTY lower-rank Bowl games held across the Nation this year. Two new Bowl games have been added this year.
That means SEVENTY teams get to the postseason...and there are only 108 teams in Division I football! (In theory, with twelve leagues/conferences and twelve teams per league, they could have 144 teams in Div I.)
The matchups, as they look now, favor the larger conferences (those that have more teams) than the smaller ones. I'm not sure that I like that...and at the same time, I think there needs to be some more flexibility to the system. Have teams that aren't likely to play each other matched up in bowls to prevent the possibility of rematches. Send teams to cities they've never visited before. Things like that. Make it more interesting.
