Two teams from same Conference in MNC game?

[ashleync]

I am bringing this up in response to a freakish thing that has happened to me in a video game.

Is it possible that two SEC teams could compete as #1 and #2 in the national championship? Does the BCS have a mechanism to prevent this?

Case in point: Florida, who lost in the head-to-head against me and UGA during the regular season, finished at #4 in the polls and in the BCS computation. I finished #1(bama), while USC finished #2, then lost to UCLA in the last game of the season. Georgia was 3rd, and only lost one game during the season, to Tennessee. I played UGA in the SEC game, and beat them, knocking them from #3 backward. So, UF moved up to #2. No one else in the nation had only 1 loss. Several finished with 2 losses. I actually lost only to Tennessee, 13-0. I am now scheduled to play #2 Florida in the Fiesta Bowl.

Can this really happen? How freaky. I am hoping this is merely an anomoly in a video game...

 

[Bama 13-0]

Sure it could happen. An undefeated team from one division, playing a 1 loss (or no loss) team from the other. The one loss team from the other would have had to have either:

1) Had one conference loss that kept it out of the conference championship game.

2) Been undefeated going into the conference championship game and lost in a nail biter.

# 2 is very unlikely to result in an invite to the BCS championship. # 1 would be more likely.

 

[Boclive]

Not that the "BcS" will survive much longer anyway, but I couldn't imagine a better way to kill it than to have two teams from the same conference finish 1-2 in the BcS. It would be dead before they played the game.

 

[ashleync]

If this were to actually take place, I can then envision an "emergency" playoff being installed. In this situation, the four BCS bowl games would act as quarterfinals, then winners of all 4 games playing in a "Final Four" if you will, to determine the National Champion.

Again, the scenario that has happened to me on a video game just kind of seems unlikely, but the original BCS idea did not factor in what would happen in a season like this, where more than two teams had undefeated records.

thank God that "ties" were eliminated before the BCS went into action.

 

[CrimsonChuck]

Actually, that isn't such a farfetched scenerio and I think that it will happen one day unless the BCS is changed. It could easily have happened this year. On the final weekend, if Auburn and USC had both lost, then the championship game would have been Oklahoma vs. Texas. Cal and USC would have played if Texas had lost to Kansas, coupled with an Oklahoma loss to OSU and an Auburn loss.

 

[TexasBama]

Nebraska in 2001 is a good example of this type scenario. They didn't play in the Big XII championship game, yet played Miami in the MNC game.

 

[NOSty]

Why would it be so bad if it did happen?

I don't see how this is any different than a wildcard team winning the superbowl. Heck, Basketball and hockey will let teams in with losing records. <shrug>

If people really care who's the best then it will need to adopt a tennis or golf type system of playing common opposition weekly. At the end of the year, no one disputes who the best rated golfer or tennis player is. There is no doubt, no luck, only consistent play.

 

[Alanbama27]

Actually there is yet another change in the BCS that they are considering and

it would not allow this to happen. They are considering making it mandetory to win your conference in order to play for the MNC. To do that, they'll need to get the PAC 10 to have a championship game like the other majors. If that happens, there will be no way it can happen.

With that said, why would you want an undefeated SEC team to play the same team twice, once in the SECCG and once in the MNCG? No way that would happen in my opinion.

 

[NOSty]

it would not allow this to happen. They are considering making it mandetory to win your conference in order to play for the MNC. To do that, they'll need to get the PAC 10 to have a championship game like the other majors. If that happens, there will be no way it can happen.

With that said, why would you want an undefeated SEC team to play the same team twice, once in the SECCG and once in the MNCG? No way that would happen in my opinion.

If these are the two best teams with the fewest losses from a major conference, why not? Isn't who we are trying to find...who the best is? Ali fought frazier 3 times. See my point?

 

[CrimsonChuck]

it would not allow this to happen. They are considering making it mandetory to win your conference in order to play for the MNC. To do that, they'll need to get the PAC 10 to have a championship game like the other majors. If that happens, there will be no way it can happen.

With that said, why would you want an undefeated SEC team to play the same team twice, once in the SECCG and once in the MNCG? No way that would happen in my opinion.

If we have learned anything from the BCS, it is that the ridiculous is possible. If Oklahoma made it after losing their conference championship last year, this is definitely possibile. If we stick with the BCS, it will definitely happen.

I have been saying for a few years that the BCS should add the conference champion requirement.

 

[Bama-94-00]

Conf. Champs

it would not allow this to happen. They are considering making it mandetory to win your conference in order to play for the MNC. To do that, they'll need to get the PAC 10 to have a championship game like the other majors. If that happens, there will be no way it can happen.

A Pac 10 team can win the conference without a conf. champ. game. The SEC did it for years.

Of course adding 2 teams and installing a Pac 10 Champ. game would be better..