A Sea Of Red

Well with all these announcer types on here and with all this BCS vs a playoff talk I thought Id bring this back from last year.

Selection criteria are simple:

6 BCS conference champions
10 at large
No one conference receives more than 3 bids (CAA rule)
At least 6 wins on the year

Here are the conference champions:

ACC: Virginia Tech
Big 10: Ohio State
Big 12: Oklahoma
Big East: West Virginia
Pac-10: USC
SEC: LSU

I'll post the 10 at larges after the final BCS standings and matchups are announced.

Sweet idea, BJ.

Just so you know ahead of time I am using these criteria in selecting the 10 at large (along with the "CAA rule"):

Strength of schedule
Margin of victory/defeat
opponent strength of schedule
BCS standings
overall strength of conference


1. Strength of schedule- very simply, who did they play?
2. Margin of victory/defeat- How much did they win by in those games? (or lose by)
3. Opponent Strength of Schedule- Who did the teams that each school played play themselves?
4. BCS Standings- Where did your team finish in the BCS (if they were ranked at all)?
5. Overall Strength of Conference- How good, top to bottom, is the conference the team played in?

Great idea BJ..... can I do anything to convince you FIU deserves to be in there?

Florida International Resume
Big Wins:
North Texas, first win in two years

Big Losses(Meaning by 60 or more points):
0, although the barely lost to Penn State 59-0, and a last minute scoring drive put Kansas up 55-3.
Also, this year they did not get in a fight with "The U"


Obviously FIU should be in

Umm...haha...no FAU has more of a chance to get in than FIU

UGA,Hawaii,Mizzou,Kansas,Boston College,VAtech,USC,Arizona state,WVU and Florida

As promised here are the 10 at large bids into the 2007 Race for the Heisman Bowl:

ACC
Boston College Runner up to VA Tech (10-3)

Big 10
Illinois- Runner up to Ohio State (9-3)

Big 12
Missouri- Runner up to Oklahoma (11-2)
Kansas- 2nd place Big 12 North (11-1)

Big East
No at larges awarded

Pac-10
Arizona State- Runner up to USC (10-2)
Oregon State- 3rd place (8-4)

SEC
Georgia- SEC East runner-up (10-2)
Tennessee- SEC East Champion (9-4)





Non-BCS
Hawaii- Champions Western Athletic Conference (12-0)
and finally...and Im gonna catch flak for this one...

Central Florida- Conference USA Champions (10-3)

These are the at larges I have picked based on the listed criteria

As it breaks down:

ACC-2 (Virginia Tech, Boston College)

Big 10- 2 (Ohio State, Illinois)

Big 12- 3 (Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas)

Big East- 1 (West Virginia)

Conference USA- 1 (Central Florida)

Pac-10- 3 (USC, Arizona State, Oregon State)

SEC- 3 (LSU, Georgia, Tennessee)

WAC- 1 (Hawaii)

Let the snub talk begin!

how was Georgia SEC east champs if they didn't even make it to the championship game BJ??????

Oregon??? They've lost 3 in a row. Dixon is out.

He said Oregon St.

Oh, my bad. In that case:

Oregon State??? I don't even know any of their players. Pac 10 bias.

thepostman wrote:how was Georgia SEC east champs if they didn't even make it to the championship game BJ??????

Sorry I was in a hurry and I mistyped. They are supposed to be SEC east runners-up.

USF is more deserving than Oregon state.

USF.....did they ever fall apart.....but you're right...they deserve it more then Oregon State that is for sure

but neither one of those two would deserve it

they lost 3 heartbreakers to bowl teams, and beat 5 bowl eligible teams, including Auburn and WVU.

Not too shabby.

ToTheLeft wrote:they beat 5 bowl eligible teams.

Not too shabby.

I could say that about 20 teams.

jcmanson wrote:

ToTheLeft wrote:they beat 5 bowl eligible teams.

Not too shabby.

I could say that about 20 teams.

are they all 8-3 and beat West Virigina and Auburn?

Actually, find me teams, not on BJ's list, who beat 5 bowl eligable teams.

ToTheLeft wrote:

jcmanson wrote:

ToTheLeft wrote:they beat 5 bowl eligible teams.

Not too shabby.

I could say that about 20 teams.

are they all 8-3 and beat West Virigina and Auburn?

Actually, find me teams, not on BJ's list, who beat 5 bowl eligable teams.

Ok, give me some time.

jcmanson wrote:Oh, my bad. In that case:

Oregon State??? I don't even know any of their players. Pac 10 bias.

Hey there are three conferences that got 3 bids under my system if you look at the breakdown. If you intended that to be a joke I didn't find it very funny.

I can't believe Central Florida made it over the University of Florida and its heisman QB/RB

jmdickens wrote:I can't believe Central Florida made it over the University of Florida and its heisman QB/RB

Well hey Id put Florida in but I did add the "CAA rule" so that one conference doesn't get the majority of the bids. I mean not everybody is gonna be happy with who gets in and who doesn't (much like with who gets in the NCAA basketball tournament and who doesn't...who gets in the 1-AA/FCS playoffs or not...who gets in the BCS or not...etc). Im not saying its a perfect system

jcmanson wrote:

ToTheLeft wrote:

jcmanson wrote: I could say that about 20 teams.

are they all 8-3 and beat West Virigina and Auburn?

Actually, find me teams, not on BJ's list, who beat 5 bowl eligable teams.

Ok, give me some time.

After some thorough research I have found the following info:

There are 4 teams (other than USF) with 5 wins over bowl-eligible teams:

Florida who has 7!
Clemson who has 6.
Oregon with 5 and have beaten USC and Ariz St.
Michigan with 5.

I would take all of those teams ahead of USF. All 4 of them played in toughet conferences, except for maybe Michigan.

BJWilliams wrote:

jcmanson wrote:Oh, my bad. In that case:

Oregon State??? I don't even know any of their players. Pac 10 bias.

Hey there are three conferences that got 3 bids under my system if you look at the breakdown. If you intended that to be a joke I didn't find it very funny.

BJ take it easy buddy, this is a hypothetical tourney.

I find your lack of seriousness unamusing manson.

LUconn wrote:I find your lack of seriousness unamusing manson.

This just isn't as serious as the christmas song tourney going on now. I'm sorry, it's just not.