Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
"Only in the human polls, and they are still a 1 loss team. "
I think there's an excellent chance they'll be 4th in the human polls, behind Michigan. That still might get them in the title game.
If they are ranked 3 in the human polls, they are still #1 in the BCS, same way with if they are ranked 4. Now if they are ranked 5 they would drop to #2 in the BCS. Ranked 6 in the human polls, it would be extremely close. Basically if they drop lower than 5 in the human polls they arent going to the title game. Do I think they should drop lower than 5? No I dont.
This is exactly WHY a playoff system is a MUST for college football. The BCS is way to flawed, going by polls is way to flawed. They should use a combonation of the BCS and a Playoff system.
Use the BCS to get the top 8 teams.
1vs8
2vs7
etc
That would knock it down to four teams
then the semis would knock it down to 2 teams
The two teams play in the title game on Jan 3(rotates between the BCS bowl games)
while the other 6 play in the other four BCS games based on how they did in the playoffs. That whole academic crap is BS, they could work around it. They have choosen not to.