Post by CrimsonPhantom on Jun 11, 2012 14:10:32 GMT -7
Tommy Bowden already sees what's coming in a college football playoff. His Tulane team was one of the first test cases of something called the Bowl Championship Series 14 years ago.
The Green Wave were one of only two undefeated teams during the 1998 regular season. Tennessee was the other. Tulane finished 10th in the regular season, eventually beating BYU in the Liberty Bowl. Tennessee went on to win the national championship.
Outrage in New Orleans? Not back then.
"Our schedule was just not very tough," said Bowden, who coached those 12-0 Conference USA champions. "I was getting a lot of calls from reporters. I just told them up front, 'I don't think our schedule merits me being in.' "
A team that produced an NFL quarterback (Shaun King) and one of the first refined zone-read, spread-option offenses, made its case beating the likes of SMU, Navy, Memphis and Army.
"I coached in the SEC for 11 years," said Bowden, who also worked at Auburn, Alabama and Kentucky. "I was so familiar with how that league was week to week-to-week ... That's kind of been my analogy. The schedule is such a huge factor -- schedule and margin of victory. Anytime I have voted [in the coaches' poll] those have been the two major things. Those guys like Utah and Boise, they just don't play the strength of schedule."
The outcry for those non-BCS teams, as you may have noticed, became louder and more shrill over the years. Five such programs finished undefeated regular seasons since 1998. Only one non-BCS school -- TCU in 2009 and 2010 -- finished in the top four.
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The Green Wave were one of only two undefeated teams during the 1998 regular season. Tennessee was the other. Tulane finished 10th in the regular season, eventually beating BYU in the Liberty Bowl. Tennessee went on to win the national championship.
Outrage in New Orleans? Not back then.
"Our schedule was just not very tough," said Bowden, who coached those 12-0 Conference USA champions. "I was getting a lot of calls from reporters. I just told them up front, 'I don't think our schedule merits me being in.' "
A team that produced an NFL quarterback (Shaun King) and one of the first refined zone-read, spread-option offenses, made its case beating the likes of SMU, Navy, Memphis and Army.
"I coached in the SEC for 11 years," said Bowden, who also worked at Auburn, Alabama and Kentucky. "I was so familiar with how that league was week to week-to-week ... That's kind of been my analogy. The schedule is such a huge factor -- schedule and margin of victory. Anytime I have voted [in the coaches' poll] those have been the two major things. Those guys like Utah and Boise, they just don't play the strength of schedule."
The outcry for those non-BCS teams, as you may have noticed, became louder and more shrill over the years. Five such programs finished undefeated regular seasons since 1998. Only one non-BCS school -- TCU in 2009 and 2010 -- finished in the top four.
Continue reading here- www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/19332347/playoff-system-get-ready-for-your-boise-statetypes-to-have-less-access