no, i'm not missing the point. I understand exactly what you are saying, Hawaii, being a mid-major, is not taken as seriously as the BCS heavyweights out there. What i am saying however with not only the Hawaii example but all the other examples i listed is that this system does not truly and fairly determine the best team in college football. USC may very well be better and more deserving than hawaii but we will never know that. If the BCS wanted to save face they should just man up and admit what it really is (the rest of the bowls should do this too): a series of post-season exhibition games whose teams are chosen by a combination of both on the field accomplishments and off the field marketability/hype/influence/etc. in order to generate revenue for the teams and the bowl and its sponsors.
When was it not about money? Teams are selected based on their merit and their ability to draw a crowd. That's why USC always goes to the Rose Bowl and the ACC goes to the Orange Bowl. Also check out the Houston Bowl and the New Mexico Bowl
Well I'll be blunt since that makes the answer easier to understand, this is from BC fans not so much from me. But considering the depths your team fell it makes sense. Your team doesn't travel well at all. Your team doesn't make money compared to your ACC competition and after looking at the crowds at the ACC championship game it seems to be the case. This is why the team with the better history and perception always gets in over another team. The result of the all bowl games except the championship game doesn't matter in the overall scope so the bowls are driven by which teams make them the most money within the rules allowed. That has always driven these bowls and that will never change. As for being "rewarded" for not playing, that is a double edged sword since Georgia clearly was penalized for not playing and that caused them to jump them. This is more a case of teams choking like dogs when they control their own destiny and whining when there is another team there to pick up the pieces. For example while OSU lost against Illinois which in most years would have doomed their NC hopes, because they turned around and won at Michigan they were able to get in after ever single team above them choked like dogs when they had the NC game in their hands. So I am not going to hold it against OSU when other teams screwed up their chance. Personally I'd rather control my own destiny then hope that other people screw things up. And as for who is the worst conference which is a stupid argument since it is completely subjective, the bowl season will identify the bad and good conferences.
It was November when they lost, do you want to count the number of teams that had to lose for them to get a shot again? If any of those teams win they aren't in the conversation. It should be a reward to be able to impress the voters again while OSU can do nothing, but many, many teams blew that chance. I'd seriously doubt anyone would want to willingly take the chance of needing 5 or 6 teams to lose for you to be able to accomplish something.
In other words, I was saying nobody deserves to play in the title game this year. Two teams were selected just because those are the rules.
Exactly, in this crazy year there is no true #1 this year, every single team as something against them this year
Georgia wasn't penalized for not playing, they were penalized for not making their conference championship. They should have never been in the top 5 if they weren't one of the top two teams in the SEC. They were never going to go to a bowl ahead of the SEC champs and shouldn't even go ahead of the SEC runner ups. There situation was an anomaly and a representation of momentum in the polls not actual talent.
While true it has happened before where a team went to the BCS title game even after not winning their conference, and it doesn't say in the rules that you have to win your conference to be eligible to be in the title game. However if they were able to show themselves in front of the public and impressed it may not have been such a landslide of negative momentum that faced Georgia
When was the last team didn't play in the conference championship (assuming there was one) but went to the national championship? I understand you don't need to in the rules, but in the voters eyes, no one is going to vote a Georgia team into the championship if they didn't at least play in the conference championship.
