Quote Originally Posted by reestuart View Post
I don't think you guarantee anyone if they didn't win their conference. Oklahoma finished #1 in the BCS in '03 while USC finished #1 in both human polls. Their absolutely should be extra consideration given to a team that wins their conference and a 'penalty' for those that don't. Bama beat one team with a winning conference record last year. Cumulative record was 18-38. They played 2 2-6 teams, a 1-7, and an 0-8 team. That's not to say that I don't think Bama was a great team, but they were able to hide behind the mighty SEC label to get in.
Hey, I'm all for guaranteeing only conference champs. I'm on record in several threads for that. In my perfect dictatorship there would be NO at -large berths. I put it the way I did to placate the "Bama deserved the second shot" crowd. However, if you tweak the BCS formula the way I suggested, including the bonus for winning your conference, how many conference losers do you think are really going to make the top 2? I doubt any will have much of a shot at it. If they do, they'll have to be some kind of a special team!

Quote Originally Posted by D-Day View Post
This sounds good. Perhaps cap the margin of victory piece at say 17 points so that running up the score on a weaker team doesn't get weighted too heavily.
IIRC, back before they screwed around with the CPU ranking formulas, the MOV cap was at 28 points. I think that worked rather well. It's one thing to still be throwing the rock and trying to score with a 21 point lead and 8 minutes to go. 21 point leads are surmountable. Keep playing hard. But when Steve Spurrier's Florida teams would have a 50 or 60 point lead and still be trying to pass for touchdowns in the fourth quarter... that's just bush league crap.