Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
We didn't split anything. Like so many other countless football programs last century, we were #1 in the AP and Coaches Poll at year's end.
If I remember correctly, weren't we #1 in every major metric used? [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
The polls determined who the national champion was for a century in college football without a "championship game." Why wouldn't that be the case in basketball if such a game wasn't played?
Because football is the only NCAA sponsored sport that doesn't have an official way of determining a champion. The polls/BCS/CFP aren't ran by the NCAA. It's all separate for $$$. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
That's like people saying a team that makes the playoffs consistently yet never wins shit (Super Bowl) is in a different league and should be treated as such for not winning it all.
Bengals make the playoffs in 2009 and 2011-15 and went one and done every year. 0-6
Anyone think they belonged in talks with the Patriots and Steelers of the world? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mr. Plow:
If I remember correctly, weren't we #1 in every major metric used?
All of them. KU was so far and away the best team in the country in 2020 that it is laughable anybody would try to contest that they weren't. We're going for 3 titles in 4 years in a few weeks. [Reply]
Originally Posted by rfaulk34:
Kansas and Arizona are the two teams that carry the choker banner the highest when it comes to tournament time.
Most recently, two years ago in a 34 pt loss to USC, as a #3 seed.
"Another way of looking at 2020-21: Self and Kansas had yet another disappointing finish where they underplayed their seed. A No. 3 seed clears the pathway to a Sweet 16, and instead it's a round of 32 exit. That's a frustrating March Madness trend KU fans know all too well. Self is in the Hall of Fame for guiding this program to the 2008 national title and 15 of the last 17 regular-season Big 12 titles. And yet, in the NCAA Tournament, Kansas has a slew of disappointing exits under Self."
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
All of them. KU was so far and away the best team in the country that it is laughable anybody would try to contest that they weren't.
Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
Because football is the only NCAA sponsored sport that doesn't have an official way of determining a champion. The polls/BCS/CFP aren't ran by the NCAA. It's all separate for $$$.
In the absence of a championship game, the only way to determine who the best team was that I can see is to look at the polls. If that same method was good enough for college football for a century, it's good enough for me. [Reply]
