If you want to know just how screwed up the BCS is, let's compare how the NFL would look if the standings were figured out like the BCS. Going into this week, the top ten would have been something like this:
1. Tennessee (6-0)
2. New York (5-1)
3. Pittsburgh (5-1)
4. Buffalo (5-1)
5. Washington (5-2)
5. Carolina (5-2)
5. Tampa Bay (5-2)
8. New England (4-2)
9. Arizona (4-2)
10. Green Bay (4-3)
Now after this week's games, it would look this way:
1. Tennessee (7-0), assuming a Titans win
2. New York (6-1)
3. Washington (6-2)
4. Carolina (6-2)
5. New England (5-2)
6. Pittsburgh (5-2)
7. Buffalo (5-2)
8. Dallas (5-3)
9. Tampa Bay (5-3)
10. Green Bay (4-3)
Now does anyone really think that the Tennessee Titans are the best team in the NFL? I sure don't. Now if Titans end up losing tomorrow night, then they'd probably plummet all the way down to fifth. But even then, we'd be saying that they and the Matt Cassel-led Patriots are the best two team in the AFC, which is just ludicrous.
Or try to imagine some convoluted deal where each division could only send two teams to the playoffs, which would be likely in the NFL were done like college football. Or if a tie between two teams was decided by picking the team that traveled better. Try being a Falcons fan and having to endure your team missing the playoffs because some other team with the same record (or maybe even a worse one) got picked because they were likely to sell more tickets on the road. Better yet, what if some team ran through a sorry division, got a berth to the Super Bowl, and then got trounced when a a team that would have given the eventual champ a much better game got left out. What if the Patriots last year were handed an overrated 14-2 team that went 12-0 against two bad divisions instead of the battle tested wildcard New York Giants they ended up facing?
Just some food for thought as we go further into the BCS portion of the college season.
this is definitely interesting