New BCS poll, setup

The Harris Polling company is taking over where the AP poll left off.

Plans are for 114 voters, made up of former coaches, players and administrators, plus media members.

Voting will not commence until several weeks into the season.

Resource thoughts---

Ho-hum.  It's another half solution.  About the best you can do unless, as proposed by HeismanPundit, you go to either a playoff or the original system of relying on two polls.

There is only one solution: Either go to a playoff or go back to the old system, which more often than not got things right. We certainly can't do any worse than what is currently in place.

Concur.

We're on the record as saying we're content with the current system.  But, we absolutely loathe the idea of a playoff.  So for us it's either status quo, or back to the antebellum days of the two polls.

Also, having been around several programs myself, I can also attest that administrators and coaches are for the most part, in no position to really have any foundation of an idea on what teams are really the best in the country.  The linked story says former administrators and coaches will be involved, which might solve that dilemma but brings up another question... why?

Comments

[volpundit]

I, for one, preferred the old system not because it more often than not got it right on the national scale, but because it allowed the emphasis to be placed where I think ought to be, which is on winning your conference championship. Most of my life, the goals at the beginning of the season for Tennessee were 1) beat Alabama; and 2) win the SEC and go to the Sugar Bowl. National championship was in the back of everyone's mind, but it wasn't what was important. Out-of-conference games were a bonus and allowed fans to travel to new places and see new teams, but the games didn't matter all that much.

Two of Tennessee's greatest seasons were 1985 and 1990, in which they finished 9-1-2 and 9-2-2, respectively, but won the SEC and the Sugar Bowl each time. Those records wouldn't feel very successful in today's college football.

I just miss the days when something less than perfect still could feel like great success.