Had they seeded the playoff correctly

[Gamecock72]

It would have been nice had they actually seeded the teams the way they should have seeded them. From highest ranked to lowest. Had they done that I wonder if the 1st round games would have been better. You would have had Clemson playing at Notre Dame with the winner playing Penn State. Boise State playing at Indiana with the winner playing Oregon. Arizona State playing at Ohio State with the winner playing Texas. And SMU playing at Tennessee with the winner playing Georgia.

 

[Blues man]

Wow. Now I've gone from changes need to be made to I'll be disappointed if any one person on the committee is back next year.

 

[Blues man]

What we have is a group of people in power that think they know better than the tried and true methods of a hundred plus years of sports

 

[Gamecock72]

Wow. Now I've gone from changes need to be made to I'll be disappointed if any one person on the committee is back next year.

I wish they would go back to using the BCS rankings instead of a committee. Use the BCS ratings to seed the teams.

 

[KingWard]

It would have been nice had they actually seeded the teams the way they should have seeded them. From highest ranked to lowest. Had they done that I wonder if the 1st round games would have been better. You would have had Clemson playing at Notre Dame with the winner playing Penn State. Boise State playing at Indiana with the winner playing Oregon. Arizona State playing at Ohio State with the winner playing Texas. And SMU playing at Tennessee with the winner playing Georgia.

I think you have made a tremendous point. The seedings were about stroking nuts more than they were about doing proper tournament matchups. Abysmal.

 

[KingWard]

I wish they would go back to using the BCS rankings instead of a committee. Use the BCS ratings to seed the teams.

Note the use of computers as an integral part of the BCS ranking system. From Wikipedia:

• AP Poll (2004) / Harris Interactive Poll (2005–2013): A team's score in the poll was divided by the maximum number of points any team would have received if all voting members had ranked that team as Number 1.
• Coaches' Poll: A team's score in the Coaches' poll was divided by the maximum number of points any team would have received if all voting members had ranked that team as Number 1.
• Computer Average: The BCS used six ranking systems: Jeff Sagarin, Anderson & Hester, Billingsley Report, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, and Dr. Peter Wolfe. Points were assigned in inverse order of ranking from 1 to 25. A team's highest and lowest computer ranking was discarded from figuring a team's computer poll average. The four remaining computer scores were averaged and the total was calculated as a percentage of 100.[17]

All three components – The Harris Interactive Poll, the USA Today Coaches Poll, and the computer rankings – were added together and averaged for a team's ranking in the BCS standings. The team with the highest average ranked first in the BCS standings.