A GREAT example of exactly why the entire bowl system is so corrupt
This Oregonlive.com blog post tells you what the whole bowl system is all about:
The potential for a Pac-10 team besides USC to play in the Rose Bowl is something that excites R. Scott Jenkins, the Rose Bowl vice president.
“We know that a team like Oregon … based on near misses, that they’re excited,” Jenkins said. “They travel well. They’d be delightful to host. They’d bring a new enthusiasm and new enthusiasm helps rejuvenate us, too. Especially if we also had a team like Iowa, who hasn’t been since 1990, that would be a special thrill.”
Jenkins also noted that Oregon fans would “fill the hotel rooms, restaurants, buy merchandise,” which would be good for the area economy.
Traveling well and buying merchandise really shouldn’t have anything to do with settling national championships or even getting invited to a bowl. But in reality, it’s what the bowls are all about. It’s how teams get picked for bowls in the first place — not on how good the team is, but how many fans will travel to watch it play.
Yes, it’s almost always been that way. But in case you don’t realize it, that stinks. You’ve got to have a playoff.
College football, Oregon Ducks | Dwight Jaynes | November 1, 2009
Iowa is so incredibly undeserving of National Title game consideration that it’s astounding this dude openly lobbies for them by name.
Just shows how screwed up the leadership in NCAA football really is. Most fans, who’ve seen how poorly Iowa has played 2 straight weeks, are hoping they will lose soon so that we can quit pretending they belong in the conversation (the same thing we allgo through with Ohio State every year).
This joker is actually lobbying for them?
I’m rooting for Iowa to play Oregon in the Rose Bowl, and Oregon getting a SPLIT of the national championship. I hope that they split it with Texas or Alabama. I HATE Florida and hope they slip up.
As you can see, I’m very unbiased when it comes to sports…unemotional, too.
That blowout of USC was a nationally televised game in prime time. The exposure is bound to raise some eyebrows back east, and maybe sway some voters. A nice win over Stanford on the road (ambush game) and I will start to think about a possible national championship scenario.
I just hope Arizona (man, I HATE Mike Stoops) doesn’t stick their nose into ruining things for Oregon again.
Absolutely Dwight!
Also the AP put the ducks at number 7 and that is disappointing. We not only beat the number 4 team in USC, but we absolutely dominated the mighty Trojans.Nobody has beaten a Pete Caroll team so soundly…
I know we are the highest ranked team with one loss, but shouldn’t we get a higher jump than three spots?
Dream on. A team from Oregon will NEVER make the big game. Even if two of the big 3 go down this year.
What year was it Oregon truly deserved to go and did not, Was that Nebraska that went and got whomped? And Oregon won their bowl big? That proved to me a team from Oregon has no chance.
Really is a big joke to me. some number system pares it to two teams?
Even though i had problems with the vote system to pick national champ it was better than what they do now
Dwight is right when they have some sort of playoff, then it will count in my view. Sure they will screw up in picking teams for playoffs but not any where nears as bad as they do now.
The 2007 team with Dennis Dixon would have gone, if he had not gotten injured. They were ranked #2 BCS at that point. Brady Leaf as a backup did NOT fit the bill for the spread offense, therefore they tanked. Also if they calculated the BCS rankings in 2001 the way they do now (it’s gone through about 5 revisions), the Ducks would have played Miami in the NCG.
Then who makes the playoffs? People will still whine about that selection system. College football would not be college footbal without obsessive analysis and complaining. There’s just too many teams and too few games to create a system that everyone will like.
Another source of stink is the disparity in revenue distribution between BCS and non-BCS schools even when a non-BCS school somehow overcomes the odds and makes into a big BCS bowl.
I was at the game last night and I’m telling you, there is no one in the country the Ducks can’t play with. By the middle of the third quarter, USC was done: tired,hands on their knees, winded and Oregon looked as fresh as the first quarter.
USC can no longer say that they have better athletes than Oregon. Oregon’s DB’s, and no one really even knows these guy’s names at this point with all the injuries, were covering USC’s receivers down field no problem, Oregon was hitting harder and playing faster.
If Oregon can win out, it would be a shame not to see them match up with a Florida or Texas.
The best part is they are so young! Could be the beginning of a few years in the national title hunt. If you were at the game last night, you just can’t help but feel that way. The Ducks just man handled them, out quicked them and out hit them all over the field!
I can’t get over the pundits saying this happens nearly every year when USC plays in Oregon – at least lately.
That’s such a load. Why the need to diminish something great? Yes, USC has lost up here before but this was different. Saturday night was a beat-down for the ages.
The only thing USC managed to do right was hold the Ducks under 50 points.