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Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:24 am to tiger25
I think it's going to make for an overall better bowl season, but with the human element involved, somebody is getting screwed.
Everybody tolerated the computers until it finally lead to 2 SEC teams playing for the championship. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. So yeah, the playoffs will be kind of neat but it's definitely not doing the SEC any favors. Don't be mad when a CLEARLY better 1 loss team from our conference gets hosed.
Everybody tolerated the computers until it finally lead to 2 SEC teams playing for the championship. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. So yeah, the playoffs will be kind of neat but it's definitely not doing the SEC any favors. Don't be mad when a CLEARLY better 1 loss team from our conference gets hosed.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:25 am to tiger25
Huge improvement! The SEC is going to get punished by the four team format, but that won't last long because we're going to eight in a few years. And that's just where it should be. When we go to eight, the SEC will start getting multiple teams in. Then it will be fair.
Make no mistake, this committee shite is an attempt to limit the SEC dominance. It's not fair, but it's good for college football. Keep things as they were and the SEC dominance would discourage fans through the rest of the country, and in another two decades when you said "LSU football" folks would think you were talking about soccer.
Make no mistake, this committee shite is an attempt to limit the SEC dominance. It's not fair, but it's good for college football. Keep things as they were and the SEC dominance would discourage fans through the rest of the country, and in another two decades when you said "LSU football" folks would think you were talking about soccer.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:26 am to brickman
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How does anyone believe taking 4 teams is not going to leave someone out
Of course worthy teams get left out. That would happen even if the playoff were 50 teams. Team 51 would scream.
But you've got to cut it off somewhere, and I'd much rather argue about the 5th best team getting left out than the 3rd best.
When they expand the playoffs to 8 teams, they'll probably take the 5 big conference champs and add 3 at-large teams, so the committee will only pick 3 teams. But of course, a bunch of teams left out will still scream, but that's the way it is. We're not the NFL, with a much smaller league size and adjusted annual scheduling based on the prior year's results.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:27 am to CheerWhine
quote:And I think the committee bias will be to keep the SEC from regaining hedgemony over the rest.
The rest of the country is getting SEC fatigue, and the Mulligan Bowl was the last straw. I think they're just happy that it's not automatically an SEC team vs. someone else anymore.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:32 am to ehidal1
I hate the comittee i dea ,l like the BCS formula we need eight teams not four !
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:34 am to White Tiger
You will be in the minority then.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:37 am to tiger25
Needs to be more than 4 teams, just to make it fair. Some great teams may be left out. Obviously one of the BIG 5 will be left out and I don'tsee the SEC getting 2 especially if BAMA is not the champ. 
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:38 am to tiger25
I would like to see 8 teams in a playoff. It can be just as hard to pick 4 than it was for the BCS to pick two. the difference between 8 and 9 will likely show a larger disparity. Plus, 8 teams could lead to some pretty awesome games.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:39 am to tiger25
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Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:40 am to timm6971463
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I hate the comittee i dea ,l like the BCS formula
You do realize the BCS formula was 2/3 polls, which are the most absurd way of determining the best teams. Horribly flawed.
The other 1/3 was computers - and their formulas are programmed BY HUMANS.
So the BCS formula was entirely dependent on human decisions. I just don't see how the committee could be any worse, and ideally it will be much better, if they do their work like the March Madness basketball committee, which I think we can all agree does a pretty good job.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:42 am to The Baker
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Before we had a month for teams to prepare for the big game
Surely you're kidding.
Putting the top 2 teams on ice for a month was absolutely awful.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:44 am to tiger25
I would like to see a 16 team playoff. There are 122 division 1 teams (I think that's right, up from 119). In any given year the #16 ranked team has a punchers chance against the #1 ranked team.
I believe we would get a truer picture of a real college champion.
I believe we would get a truer picture of a real college champion.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:48 am to geauxldeneye
Thousand times no on 16 teams. It will kill the regular season.
The 4 team playoff will generate far more TV revenue than the BCS. That's why we are going to a playoff.
The 4 team playoff will generate far more TV revenue than the BCS. That's why we are going to a playoff.
This post was edited on 8/27/14 at 9:49 am
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:55 am to Dr Rosenrosen
quote:Would truly suck in so many ways.
Thousand times no on 16 teams. It will kill the regular season.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:03 am to Dr Rosenrosen
[Thousand times no on 16 teams. It will kill the regular season]
Disagree! The NFL has 32 teams and 12 make the playoffs:
The NBA puts about 1/2 their teams in.
Mens NCAA BB now has 66 get in the tourney.
All are more popular than ever.
MLB increased theirs some years ago by creating wildcards and their poularity rose. (But MLB still may be slowly dying in viewership)
16 out of 122 is still very elite, and knowing if you have only two losses(that means 10 wins), you still have a shot(deservedly so), at the brass ring, is more than justified.
Disagree! The NFL has 32 teams and 12 make the playoffs:
The NBA puts about 1/2 their teams in.
Mens NCAA BB now has 66 get in the tourney.
All are more popular than ever.
MLB increased theirs some years ago by creating wildcards and their poularity rose. (But MLB still may be slowly dying in viewership)
16 out of 122 is still very elite, and knowing if you have only two losses(that means 10 wins), you still have a shot(deservedly so), at the brass ring, is more than justified.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:08 am to geauxldeneye
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16 out of 122 is still very elite
16 teams is too many. There's just too much of a dropoff in quality when you get down to 16.
8 teams is ideal. We could go to 10 teams, but that creates a round of play-in games to get it down to 8. Anything beyond that just dilutes it too much.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:10 am to geauxldeneye
quote:Do you really not see the problem with applying this to CFB?
Disagree! The NFL has 32 teams and 12 make the playoffs:
The NBA puts about 1/2 their teams in.
Mens NCAA BB now has 66 get in the tourney.
All are more popular than ever.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:18 am to TheCaterpillar
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:18 am to Giantkiller
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Everybody tolerated the computers until it finally lead to 2 SEC teams playing for the championship. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. So yeah, the playoffs will be kind of neat but it's definitely not doing the SEC any favors. Don't be mad when a CLEARLY better 1 loss team from our conference gets hosed.
That's not what happened. Oklahoma State was ahead in the majority of the computers and the overall computer ranking. Bama got in because 2/3 of the BCS was a vote.
I believe, though I cannot prove it, that Bama got the benefit of being a historic name, giving them more love from the voters than OSU. Had Oklahoma had the year OSU had, we would have played the Sooners in NOLA.
Look back: nobody talked about how the BCS got it wrong in 11, even before the game (Well, except us and OSU). Why? Because the result matched the AP poll. Why doesn't any national level talking head complain about Auburn getting screwed in 2004? Because the BCS agreed with the AP poll. But you still hear controversy over 03 because the BCS didn't agree with the AP poll.
So, in the end, from the talking head standpoint, the determining factor of whether the system "worked" is whether it agrees with the AP poll.
GEAUX TIGERS
This post was edited on 8/27/14 at 10:21 am
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