The Internet, Where All Your Fantasies Really Do Come True

by SMQ on Jul 23, 2008 9:04 PM EDT Comment 11 comments

Not that you'd ever need to go there, especially in the summer, but if for some reason you have tried to access any part of the official Web site of the Bowl Championship Series, BCSFootball.org, since last week, you've probably come across an interesting surprise:

Surely there is a very good explanation for this, such as a re-launch, or rebuild, or a move to another domain that for whatever reason has not replaced BCSFootball.org on a Google search for "Bowl Championship Series" or the Wikipedia page for the BCS or the FOX Sports CFB home page, or something, and not simply an embarrassing oversight by the Series, FOX Sports and/or its various other corporate masters, who of course are very much on top of such routine details of running a modern organization. Maybe they've decided to, uh, move away from the Web?

Although, whatever the explanation, I'd like to buy the algorithm that generated the picture of the kids playing soccer a drink.

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Hat tip: a mysterious e-mailer who goes by "Sports Information." Anyone who can explain why this is or is not what it looks like, by all means, proceed. I just spoke to Orson Swindle and he says he's going to buy it, so act quickly.

[UPDATE, 1:41 pm CT 7/24/08] Commenter "georgiablue" notes that the BCSFootball.org url now redirects to the FOX Sports home page. So somebody somewhere is paying attention.

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That “mysterious tipster” is me. Seriously. I’m glad you thought it was as hilarious as I did.

by Alaska Hokie on Jul 23, 2008 11:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Perfect chance to setup a tournament!

If the BCS can’t even keep its domain valid with all of its wealth, what’s the point in keeping it around? I think this would be a perfect time to setup a 64-team tournament. Ha!

Thanks,

Brian – www.ncaafootballfreak.com

by beeneeb on Jul 24, 2008 3:20 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If they can't keep details like this in order

what the hell makes you think they could possibly set up a playoff with any success?

by PSU Nick on Jul 24, 2008 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The only reason why a tournament has not been set up is because the NCAA and the BCS is afraid of losing all of its corporate sponsors. Give me one reason why a tournament wouldn’t be the “fair” thing to do…

by beeneeb on Jul 24, 2008 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would love a playoff

Penn State has had too many unrewarded undefeated seasons due to the lack of one, but I in no way trust the powers that be to figure out a successful system of a playoff that doesn’t need tweaking every couple years due to its failures.

by PSU Nick on Jul 24, 2008 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Penn State has had too many unrewarded undefeated seasons due to the lack of one.

If Penn State would have went undefeated in the BCS era they would have played in a championship game. That argument may hold weight pre-BCS but not anymore.

by gahnki on Jul 26, 2008 8:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's true for 1969 and 1994

But when PSU went undefeated in 1968, it was still ranked behind both Ohio State and USC at the end of the regular season, who played each other for the mythical championship in the Rose Bowl (Penn State finished No 2 in the final poll, behind Ohio State). In 1973, PSU was undefeated again but entered the bowls ranked sixth, behind Alabama (11-0), Okahoma (10-0-1), Notre Dame (10-0), Ohio State (9-0-1) and Michigan (10-0-1). Penn State beat LSU in the Orange Bowl that year and STILL finished No. 5 in the final AP poll, after the bowls, behind Alabama (which lost to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl), Ohio State (which obliterated USC in the Rose but had the tie against Michigan) and Oklahoma (which had the tie and missed a bowl game because it was on probation). The only team the Lions jumped for beating LSU was Michigan, which lost the famous coach’s vote after the tie with Ohio State and didn’t go to a bowl.

So, even undefeated, PSU would have still been out in the cold under the current system in ‘68 and ‘73. I think it says something in favor of the modern game - in terms of scheduling and parity - that such a scenario is basically unthinkable today. But a playoff would have been preferable then, too.

by SMQ on Jul 27, 2008 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs