re: CFB Playoff: Commitiee vs BCS rankings

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The playoff system layered on top of the BCS rankings.

Top 4 in the BCS get in.

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This I support. frick automatic bids (based on conference)

There was no reason for USC to be ranked ahead of LSU in the first place.

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Best 4 teams get in, no matter who it is. For this reason, I don't see why they can't just use the BCS system...it was right most of the time and rarely were there 4+ teams with an argument. This post was edited on 7/22 at 6:20 pm

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For example, let's say South Carolina has 1 loss and plays an undefeated Alabama in the SECG and South Carolina wins

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Or worse, say Carolina and Bama are both undefeated before the cc game. Your reward for playing the #1 team in the country? Missing out on the playoff.

Or a 2011 scenario, where Bama gets in by virtue of getting to sit out that weekend.

We got off topic. It doesn't matter who should be champs in 2003 the point is LSU did not jump USC.

You said a #6 team would jump #3 in a playoff scenario if #3 got left out but won a big bowl. I provided an example of 2003 USC staying ahead of 2003 LSU. You at least seem to agree they should have.


EDIT. It was another dude. My bad.

I never said anything about that, someone else did.

All I have said was taking the 5 power champs, Indy, WC, and top non power champ

That way committee picks 3 and if you screw up somewhere you got a chance. But that's 8 not 4. I trust committee will do a great job.

Norte Dame deserved in, they played 4 games where everyone said they would lose
OU
Miami
Stanford
Michigan

If you don't win conference you better hope. You're finding a NC not the best team. I know that sounds strange. But the best team isn't the NC always.

Someone will complain no matter what, there's no perfect system.

I guess it would've looked like this...using the plan I mentioned and taking the AAC out


Alabama SEC
Notre Dame Indy
K State Big XII
Stanford PAC 12
Wisconsin B1G
Florida St ACC
Louisville Non power
Wild Card between Oregon and Florida

I think that was a solid field. Florida and Oregon have to hope because of losing in reg season or ccg. Committee has to pick ND Louisville and WC.

Again there are flaws in my plan, but it's an idea that has some merit and rewards winning.

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Cal was better than Florida.

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no they weren't. Cal was terrible early in the year when the beat USC. 2003 Florida played one of the hardest schedules in the last couple decades. Every team they lost to was legit.

USC on the other hand played an absolute joke of a schedule that year. They beat literally zero teams in the regular season that finished the year ranked. They had the worst loss of the three teams in contention (OU and LSU being the other two). And they still were gifted a share of a championship in spite of a real lack of credentials.

They were Boise State but they had a fanbase and a massive amount of media support so their lack of quality wins and bad loss were overlooked because they are a bigger name school than LSU.

yeah, the committee's verbiage does not indicate they are going to let in weak candidates into a four team playoff. Even a team like say 2001 LSU probably doesn't make a four team playoff field - keep in mind that was a team that finished 11-3 (5-3 in SEC play).

overall i think placing a lot of value on winning your conference does more to raise or maintain the value of the regular season anyway. what would degrade the value of the regular season would be regularly giving name teams (e.g. ND, USC, Alabama, OU, FSU) at large bids while other lesser name teams who won their conference and had better credentials were left out.