Help with Speech: Topic: BCS vs Playoff System

[Melvin]

BCS Pros:
- Regular Season is Awesome
- Computers are the best way to calculate who should play. Hey computers run our lives now, why not let them run College Football.

BCS Cons:
- Teams get left out of NC

Playoff Pros:
- Teams don't get left out

Playoff Con:
- Too Long of Season

ANSWER:
+1 Format that the Big 10, Big 12, and Pac 10 voted down.

a) 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 on New Years Day
b) Championshiop Game on Jan 10 - just like today.
c) Season stays AWESOME, becuause if you lose 1 game, you might not make the playoff.

 

[Cycsk]

Could someone explain what you mean by "Plus 1?" I have heard it used in various ways through the years, but it sounds like there is a consensus that knows what it means without stating the details. Maybe I just haven't been watching enough ESPN Sports Center.

 

[Clone5]

also, there is no such thing as a davidson/george mason in college football.

basketball = 15 players
football = 115 players

if you have a guy like stephen curry he can tear **** up on the bball court almost by himself. Put vince young on UNI's football team: they'd get 8th in the big 12

I can guarantee you if we had the 8 team playoff for 10 years or more an eight or seven seed would win it at least once.
I can even see a 16 seed winning it if we had a 16 team playoff.
I do not understand how any college football fan can be in favor of the BCS and not a playoff.

 

[Cyballz]

how about this...do your own ******* homework

 

[cykadelic2]

2008

11-1 Texas
11-1 Oklahoma
11-1 Texas Tech

only 1 team would make the tournament, which one? Oklahoma? Then Texas still gets screwed. Even though they could have been the best team in the country that year, a conference champions only tournament STILL wouldn't have allowed them to prove it on the field!

That was an extremely rare situation where all 3 teams beat each other and all other tie-breaking criteria were exhausted, very rare that scenario happens with a round-robin schedule. The B12 tweaked their formula to where Texas would have qualified under current rules. The BCS rankings are still the tiebreaker but if the top two teams are not separated by another team in the rankings, the tiebreaker is the head-to-head match-up which I think is fair.

This season's B10 scenario could have been avoided with round robin scheduling.

 

[GoSTATE71]

mention polls by ESPN...something like 77% of college football players support current system and thats what really matters also mention all the lost revenue if a playoff system was implemented

 

[PAZ]

If you want to win your debate, wait patiently and politely for your opponent to make his point, stand up and say, "Everything that guy just said is ********. Thank You."