{"id":1381,"date":"2005-01-05T11:56:37","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T16:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/bsc_is_lame\/"},"modified":"2005-01-05T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T16:56:37","slug":"bsc_is_lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/bsc_is_lame\/","title":{"rendered":"BSC Is Lame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence to file into the we-already-knew-that files.  Simply put, the system cannot cope when there are three or more teams vying for supremacy.  So if there are multiple undefeated teams in contention, the two with the highest <i>preseason<\/i> rankings will get to go to the championship game.  Or if there are several one-loss teams in the hunt, it will likely feature the two which lost earliest in the season.<br \/>\nEither way, teams&#8211;and college football fans&#8211;get screwed.  And we&#8217;ll continue to miss out until the NCAA implements an eight (or more) team playoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/bsc_is_lame\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to BSC Is Lame\"><p>More evidence to file into the we-already-knew-that files. Simply put, the system cannot cope when there are three or more teams vying for supremacy. So if there are multiple undefeated teams in contention, the two with the highest preseason rankings will get to go to the championship game. Or if there are several one-loss teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}