AP pulls its football poll from BCS formula

[Tates]

"The Associated Press has not at any time given permission to the Bowl Championship Series to use its proprietary ranking of college football teams," the AP said in a statement Tuesday. "This unauthorized use of the AP poll has harmed AP's reputation and interfered with AP's agreements with AP poll voters. To preserve its reputation for honesty and integrity, the AP is asking the BCS to discontinue its unauthorized use of the AP poll as a component of BCS rankings."

FoxSports.com

 

Haha, awesome. I fvcking loathe the BCS. Give us back our Rose Bowl! :|

 

[kdp]

here's a quote from the ESPN article

Where the BCS goes from here won't be determined for a while, but recently Weiberg and Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese have said the BCS would look into the possibility of using a selection committee to create the bowl matchups, much like the NCAA Division I basketball tournament.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: kdp
here's a quote from the ESPN article

Where the BCS goes from here won't be determined for a while, but recently Weiberg and Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese have said the BCS would look into the possibility of using a selection committee to create the bowl matchups, much like the NCAA Division I basketball tournament.

that'd be better, then maybe we'd at least have auburn and utah playing a decent game, rather than the patsies they're playing

 

[kdp]

I wouldn't consider Virginia Tech to be a "patsies" by any means.

 

[shopbruin]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Haha, awesome. I fvcking loathe the BCS. Give us back our Rose Bowl! :|

without the BCS cal wouldn't be in the rose bowl in the first place. USC would be. Cal would still be in the holiday bowl.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: kdp
I wouldn't consider Virginia Tech to be a "patsies" by any means.

well, no, maybe not them. but it isn't the matchup everyone would want

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: freesia39

Originally posted by: jumpr
Haha, awesome. I fvcking loathe the BCS. Give us back our Rose Bowl! :|

without the BCS cal wouldn't be in the rose bowl in the first place. USC would be. Cal would still be in the holiday bowl.

he's a michigan guy and probably wants it to be pac 10 number 1 vs big 11 number 1 every year like it should be

 

[udonoogen]

hopefully next year we'll have a decent system.

 

[Weeeman]

Originally posted by: udonoogen
hopefully next year we'll have a decent system.

I fear it will take a bit longer than that 🙁

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: udonoogen
hopefully next year we'll have a decent system.

It depends on what you mean by a decent system. Everyone's idea is different.

 

[dbk]

We'll beat Auburn, you watch! 🙂

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz

Originally posted by: udonoogen
hopefully next year we'll have a decent system.

It depends on what you mean by a decent system. Everyone's idea is different.

exactly ... SEC wants a system where auburn fights for a national championship

PAC10 wants a system where Cal goes to the rose bowl . ..

 

[kdp]

playoffs

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: freesia39

Originally posted by: jumpr
Haha, awesome. I fvcking loathe the BCS. Give us back our Rose Bowl! :|

without the BCS cal wouldn't be in the rose bowl in the first place. USC would be. Cal would still be in the holiday bowl.

Regardless, Cal deserved the berth this year, if not for petty politics. We nearly shocked USC, yet Texas got shutout by OK.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I'm not suprised that the AP wants out. They've said before they were uncomfortable being a part of the BCS. Reporters are supposed to report on the news, not make the news. The funny thing is they said that at least last year, and then this year the BCS made them a bigger part of the formula. Using the old formula, Texas moved ahead of Cal much earlier in the season, and there wouldn't have been as much controversy.

 

[sciencewhiz]

As far as a selection committee, it depends on who does the selecting, and what they are actually selecting. Right now there is a selection committee of 4 bowls that pick which teams go where, and sometimes up to 2 teams. We've seen how well that works out.

The conferences will never agree to a system that doesn't guarantee their champions/best team a spot. Because of that, there will almost always be at least 1 bad game. I can't think of any year where the top 6 teams have been the champions of the respective BCS conferences.

The bowls will never agree to a system where they don't get to choose thier participants, at least to some extent. The fiesta bowl would rather have an 8-3 Notre Dame team then a 10-1 Miami team. The Rose Bowl would prefer to have a 8-3 Cal team then a 10-1 Texas team. They are looking for a pretty interesting game (for TV) and team that have traditional ties, and teams that travel well (for ticket and hotel sales).

There are only 2 changes I could see coming. One is to get rid of the rules about the #3 and #4 teams, and the non-bcs school rules. That would guarantee there are always 2 wild cards.

The other one would be that the #1 and #2 teams play in the designated national championship game. Then, whichever bowl has the #3 team by conference affiliation would get the next pick, instead of the bowl that lost the #1 team.

I don't think either of those scenarios would give us Auburn and Utah, though. The sugar bowl doesn't want Utah because of the stigma that mormons don't travel and don't spend money.