re: Will the SEC continue to win the big one once the playoffs arrive?(*2013)

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It is hard to argue their logic if you view the conferences as mini brackets. If you win your bracket you get to advance to the final four. If you don't you screwed it up, not the other teams that did what they set out to do with their schedules.


Not hard to argue at all.

If your conference has the best 4 teams in the country in it every year and only one gets a chance at the final four each time

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Every single team in the conference had a chance to win the conference and advance.

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In basketball the ACC and big east always get more teams in the tourny, because the strength of schedule. It should be the same in football.

Using the bcs to determine the top 4 teams is only fair. It keeps the politics out of it.

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A 60 odd team field is not comparable to a 4 team field. Were basketball reduced to a four team field they would have to restrict the number of entrants from a single conference to one because doing differently just doesn't make any sense. The best teams within a conference need to play meaningful games leading up to the postseason - doing differently devalues the regular season (which is a big problem for ncaa basketball and presently not a problem for ncaa football).

using the bcs for entry into a playoff field (when it includes human opinion polls) is a common proposal but it is far from apolitical. Big name teams, teams which began the near ranked higher, and teams from perceived power conferences obviously have major advantages over teams with lesser fan followings or teams which began the year ranked lower in the human opinion polls.

If you were interested in being apolitical I suppose you could advocate for using the computer polls to determine the top four - but that doesn't appeal to the people who benefit from the present system.