plus-one Stories - Team Speed Kills
Big Ten Might Jump on the Playoff Bandwagon
If I could put my finger on one reason why I don't like Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, it's that he comes off like the worst kind of politician. He's devoted solely to his conference and rarely acts like he cares about the big picture. He reeks of condescension while sometimes engaging in spin...
A Playoff Is Coming
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: the SEC has won the current BCS system. After Auburn got left out of the title game 2004, SEC partisans relentlessly pushed the idea that it was ludicrous to exclude the champion from the nation's best conference if it was one of the worthy...
Big Ten, Pac-12 ADs Agree on Plus One BCS Format
The athletics directors of the Big Ten and Pac-12 have agreed on the basics of a plus one playoff format for the BCS. Here's what they came up with: The proposed format the ADs favored in a straw vote calls for adding a BCS bowl, probably the Cotton, and seeding the top four teams, which would...
Sprints Thinks the SEC Shouldn't Ignore a Plus One or Forget Jarvis Williams // 05.27.10
Does the SEC need a BCS plus-one?Maybe not, argues Tony Barnhart, in a column on the prospects for Auburn getting the 2004 trophy. The reason? 2006-2009. This four-year streak has changed everything from the SEC perspective. The league office now feels that the SEC has proven its strength to the...
New NCAA President Won't Make Playoff Headway
I'm the resident playoff advocate around here, while cocknfire's not quite so gung-ho about the prospect. Anyway, the new NCAA president Mark Emmert has gone on the record regarding playoffs before (H/T DocSat) : "I happen to be one," insists University of Washington president Mark Emmert, "that...
How Exclusionary is the BCS?
One of the principles that the recent BCS hearings were built on was that the BCS is inherently restrictive in who it allows to play for the national title. Specifically, it doesn't let anyone from the non-automatic qualifying conferences in. The idea is that human pollsters will not give the...
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