Doing their very best to ensure that the SEC gets 5 teams in the playoffs next year. They were added over folks like Ole Miss and Bama. Not doing themselves or the rest of college football (outside of the SEC) any favors right now. Hopefully SMU can make a game of this or arguments for the up and comers will melt down for next year.
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So Carolina was the one that was better than both Ole Miss and Bama Gump.
Might as well just have the SEC and Big Ten champs play for the National Championship. A 12-team playoff is a waste of time.
Fundamentally, I agree of course, but damn, the sports fan in me really wanted to see some fun underdog action in these playoffs.
Schedule strength needs to be weighted higher and seedings should not be based on winning a conference championship but on final rankings in the playoff poll. The first two rounds are mostly throw-away games to winnow the wheat from the chaff. I do not believe that Alabama or Ole Miss were any more deserving since they lost 3 games each and they just weren't any more impressive than a whole bunch of other teams.
Throw away games to winnow the wheat from the chaff? Maybe but I would argue all 12 should have had to play in first round. Byes to ASU and Boise are questionable at best.
Nah, they'll just solve it by adding more teams
Nah, they'll just add more teams. Gotta be some lower tier teams somewhere down there that can pull off an occasional outlier upset every now and again so they can say I told you so.
Nah, they'll just add more teams. Gotta be some lower tier teams somewhere down there that can pull off an occasional outlier upset every now and again so they can say I told you so.
Bama did not earn a spot. They lost 3 games ans lost to two 6-6 teams that really weren’t that good. OU boat raced them basically and was not good this year. Vandy wasnt very good either. Ok. Everyone remembers they beat Bama but they forget they lost to a 3-9 GA State. No one can honestly say that Bama deserved it. ND beats bama. PSU beats bama. We are in the same result but now we keep the integrity of the regular season
This playoff all but ensures that there will likely just be a BCS type formula. Keeping the conf champs and mandatory non P4 team likely is the only way to ensure Cinderella would get a shot.
Everyone should go look at some of the scores from the FCS playoffs every year and realize this was always going to be the case once we made this thing we had like everything else. And most wanted it. If you start putting 3 loss teams over 1 loss teams or 2 loss teams who lost in their CCG, you're gonna ruin this sport even more. All Bama had to do was win by 1 point against Oklahoma and they got punked. All Ole Miss had to do was not lose to Kentucky or Florida lol. South Carolina lost to both of those teams lol. To make the playoffs you should have a body of work. Beating Georgia is great. Losing to Vandy convincingly then getting punked by a 21 point dog kills it. Bama made a woman orgasm, then clogged her toilet.
I actually like this concept: Six first-round, on-campus games. After that, the top two remaining seeds advance to the semifinals, the other four play to advance to the semis with pairings based on a re-seed (based on original seeding, not redoing the rankings).
This will lead to six campus-site games and five neutral-site games (as opposed to four and seven, respectively, now). I'm sure the bowls will squawk about this. Between Orange, Peach, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, and Rose, someone gets left out with only five playoff games. Frankly, I think Peach or Cotton should get dropped in this case as they are the only sites which also hosts a CCG among those six bowl sites. But again, that's from a logical perspective and not a financial perspective.
What people will still split hairs on is how to seed and the deference given to winning a conference title. I actually like requiring winning a CCG to be a top four seed because it provides more opportunities to non-power conferences in the past "just missing" effectively by design, but agree going straight to a bye as a top four seed is too much.
This will also get two more games on campus, while still providing preferential treatment for winning a CCG over teams who don't have to play an extra game (host and a better change at jumping to the semis with a first-round win).
I think it "solves" part of the problem with why do all these other universities and their localities get an economic boost by *not* getting a bye since they didn't win their CCG while the CCG-winning bye teams don't get a home game. But that's a tangential issue.
Home field is a huge advantage. SMU was shook. Also PSU has some studs at RB and DL
Al I know is how much I want us to be good again. Remember when we used to beat teams like PSU is beating SMU? Sigh
There are always deserving teams left out of the playoffs, in every sport. NFL, MLB, NBA, the list goes on. Right or wrong, that’s the nature of the playoffs.
So many posting in here demanded SMU over Bama.
Amazing.
You got what you wanted.
I'll still argue for 8 teams at max. This is nothing but a clusterf*ck.
Amazing.
You got what you wanted.
I'll still argue for 8 teams at max. This is nothing but a clusterf*ck.
Yeah the home field advantage is big. I expect all home teams to win this weekend but would love to see an upset.
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