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Pat Forde of ESPN offers five "doomsday scenarios". Here's Stewart Mandel's calmer discussion.
Sorry, but I've heard this before, and most times--not all, most--it works out pretty well. (But I've got to admit, this year offers a lot of bad possibilities.)
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the intransigence of the conference commissioners is amazing. by an extra extra bowl they could turn the BCS into an actual seven team playoff and earn gobs of even more money since each of those six games would count.
Posted by: kyle8 | October 31, 2008 at 07:45 AM
There has to be something I care less about than getting the "right" teams into a mythical National Championship game, but off the top of my head I can' think of one.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie | October 31, 2008 at 01:29 PM
This is a good example for explaining Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. there is no criteria that is not somewhat arbitrary. If there was only some kind of system like a round-robin, or a sequence where winners play each other. I wonder how other leagues choose their annual 'top team'?
Posted by: eric falkenstein | November 02, 2008 at 09:22 PM