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quote: Originally posted by dbpro56
Come on now!!! Did you and a couple poker buddies come up with that lame
brain idea, that the BCS came about because the SEC was so good. That`s a good one!!
Do you see anywhere I said the BCS came about because the SEC was good? I didn't.
What I said was, and go back and look if you need to, that they CHANGED HOW THEY SELECTED TEAMS because of that big run.
Before then bowl selections were tied to conference tie ins and matched teams closer together. For example champion vs champion, 2 vs2 etc etc etc. Sometimes it was like 2 vs 4 but they had a specific position of school that they had to take.
After than run they changed it and allowed more leeway so they could pick a "more competitive" game or a "better match up". This was big news then because it changed years of tradition.
That has allowed us to have those Big Ten 2 vs SEC 7 match ups that used to didn't happen. That allows for other teams to get snubbed, like a few years ago when Tennessee fell to the Cotton even though they finished 2nd in the SEC. Before this change it wasn't allowed, bowl X had to take the 2nd place SEC team. It's not that way any more. It was changed BEFORE the BCS, somewhere around 96 or so.
The articles at the time said the change was expressly because the bowls were boring, too many blow outs and not enough competitive games. That was right after the SEC had only lost 1 bowl game in either 2 or 3 years and was a big factor in why they changed it, per ESPN and the other sports outlets at the time.
Sorry if the truth hurts, but that's what happened.
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