Interesting comments re CFB playoff friom B1G.

SoS never won a game, nor does it definitively determine which team(s) are best.  All it does is "identify" which teams played a more difficult schedule.    It makes a decision (or influences those making the decision) based on an assumption.

Fair enough, but how would you do a RPI formula then? Just take best win, worst lost, and overall record?

Fair enough, but how would you do a RPI formula then? Just take best win, worst lost, and overall record?

To be honest, I also don't like the best win, worst lost either.    Would losing by 3 to Buffulo be better or worse than losing by 20 to the number 1 team?

Identify a ranking/polling body or system.   No pre-season rankings.  Release the rankings after week 6.  Rank teams based on their performance for the current season, not what they did last year or what you think they will do.  

How many undefeated teams have played for, let alone won the BCS?  To try to say which loss was better or worse is just as biased a discrimintor as any.  At that point, you are looking for reasons to exclude rather than letting them play, which is what a playoff would do.   
   
The only thing holding one up is the powers to be have to make sure the transition protects the bottom line, $.  Not actually crowning a champ. 

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Having said that, when looking at the top 6-8, you can make a very strong case for most of those teams in most years.   Sure, there may be exceptions, but generally speaking those exceptions are based mostly on speculation/assumption.  

I don't think you can make a strong case for #s 6-8 in any year. I'm not saying you can't stretch the teams regular season record and performance to try and make a case, but it will not a strong one.

I don't think you can make a strong case for #s 6-8 in any year. I'm not saying you can't stretch the teams regular season record and performance to try and make a case, but it will not a strong one.

Have you actually went back and looked at the polls for the last week of the regular season?  

Don't forget, 2007 LSU was #7 going into the last week of the season.  Had it not been for teams ahead of them losing...  Not only that, but they also jumped idle teams as well.       


 

Disagree with SoS.  SoS never won a game, nor does it definitively determine which team(s) are best.  All it does is "identify" which teams played a more difficult schedule.    It makes a decision (or influences those making the decision) based on an assumption. 

The point of rules is not to identify the best team. Rules assign teams a task and the teams that best accomplish that task place higher in the standings. That's how competitions work. The problem comes from those that expect the standings to validate their subjective assumptions about irrelevant matters such as identifying the best team.   

Home games for higher seeded teams will likely never happen. Southern teams do not want to have to go to Ann Arbor, Columbus, Lincoln, Boise or Happy Valley in December.  That is also the same reason Kansas City will never host a bowl game.