Evolution: Slotting Programs Into Tiers For 2011
Posted By Admin on April 27, 2011
This week we’re taking a step back to lay down some things that all college football fans are better served knowing. Yesterday we took a look at the big picture of today’s college football climate and the most important factors contributing to maintaining long term success. Today we’re going to look at the landscape from a different angle; where programs rank in the current climate of the game.
A few things need to be said here because I’m sure there are going to be a lot of hurt feelings, a lot of “but, but, but we won back to back titles” and a lot of “we’re the best team in our league so why are we not tier 1?” type of talk.
So before we start let’s set the record straight, the most important element of this tier system is the idea that we’re ranking all FBS teams against one another. The big dawgs on the blocks with the oodles of cash money are going up against the non-BCS teams and the schools that are hampered by the academics at their institutions.
Another fact that must be mentioned is these conditions or terms do not operate in a vacuum. If a tier 2, 3 or 4 team is on track to achieve a conference championship push in the same year that a tier 1 school is tracking for a national title more often than not the lower tier school is going to miss out.
There are also conference stipulations.
Several leagues don’t have a true tier 1 organization in their midst, that means the 2′s, 3′s or even 4′s that are atop the league have a shot to win more conference titles than the 2′s, 3′s and 4′s in league’s with multiple elite programs.
Slotted teams should:
Tier 1: Legitmately contend for conference title every 2-4 years and BCS title every 3-5 years.
Tier 2: Legitimately contend for conference title every 3-5 years and BCS title every 4-6 years.
Tier 3: Legitimately contend for conference title every 5-7 years.
Tier 4: Have a conference title shot once a decade or so.
That’s the baseline folks and after we outline where all the teams fall into this list we’ll talk about several special cases as well as explain a couple of the rankings. If you’ve got questions or issues of course the comments are open and we’ve always got the twitter machine to talk in real time.
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