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The top seeds in the CFP will rightfully complain about not getting a home game.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:38 pm
LSU related because this will inevitably affect us.
Let’s say the CFP was held with the current playoff rankings. Georgia, Michigan, Washington, and Florida State would have a legitimate gripe that they are screwed out of playing at home while lower-seeded “play-in” teams get that privilege.
The NCAA is stupidly trying to hang on to this antiquated and obsolete “bowl system.” Trash it completely. The playoffs should be at the home of the higher seed every round until the championship game, just like FCS and the NFL. The playoff will soon expand to 16 teams but that’s another subject.
Meanwhile, the AD’s and HC’s at Georgia and Michigan should be speaking out loudly and clearly about this. Why are lower seeded teams rewarded with something the top seeds aren’t? How will we feel when we are a top four seed? Glad of the ranking no doubt, but cheated out of a home playoff game in Tiger Stadium?
I’m glad for the expanded playoff, but leave it to the NCAA to introduce something good and still manage to frick up a significant part of it with this stupid insistence on not letting go of the last vestiges of the bowl system.
Let’s say the CFP was held with the current playoff rankings. Georgia, Michigan, Washington, and Florida State would have a legitimate gripe that they are screwed out of playing at home while lower-seeded “play-in” teams get that privilege.
The NCAA is stupidly trying to hang on to this antiquated and obsolete “bowl system.” Trash it completely. The playoffs should be at the home of the higher seed every round until the championship game, just like FCS and the NFL. The playoff will soon expand to 16 teams but that’s another subject.
Meanwhile, the AD’s and HC’s at Georgia and Michigan should be speaking out loudly and clearly about this. Why are lower seeded teams rewarded with something the top seeds aren’t? How will we feel when we are a top four seed? Glad of the ranking no doubt, but cheated out of a home playoff game in Tiger Stadium?
I’m glad for the expanded playoff, but leave it to the NCAA to introduce something good and still manage to frick up a significant part of it with this stupid insistence on not letting go of the last vestiges of the bowl system.
This post was edited on 11/29/23 at 12:39 pm
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Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:39 pm to timlan2057
I thought they would play a home game after the bye for the Final 8 and then the Final 4 would go to the bowl games?
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:41 pm to LSUpelsSaints
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I thought they would play a home game after the bye for the Final 8 and then the Final 4 would go to the bowl games?
My understanding is that everything after the play-in round is neutral site “bowl games.”
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:41 pm to timlan2057
I am so ready for a home playoff game in Tiger Stadium!! With an opponent LSU has never or rarely played. But the CFP will probably pair SEC vs. SEC to minimize the SEC teams that will advance through the playoffs.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:41 pm to timlan2057
The top 4 don't play their first game at home? The champ would play 3 neutral site games? that would be stupid
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:42 pm to timlan2057
They need to get fricking rid of the bowl games. They suck and no one gives a shite about them.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:43 pm to Topwater Trout
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The top 4 don't play their first game at home? The champ would play 3 neutral site games? that would be stupid
If they do, I missed that. I still think everything ought to be home-and-home until the final, but if the top seeds play their first game at home then I was wrong and that makes a bit more sense.
This post was edited on 11/29/23 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:43 pm to timlan2057
Can't way for the day this board has an aneurysm when the student section and the east and west sidelines start emptying out in the third quarter of a playoff game.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:45 pm to poncho villa
quote:the bowls are private. Neither the Playoff Committee, the NCAA, nor the conferences can make bowls quit operating.
They need to get fricking rid of the bowl games.
Hell, if you and I wanted to start a bowl and got adequate funding, we could do it.
Again, bowls are private organizations, and aren't under the control of anybody.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:46 pm to timlan2057
the greedy universities won't allow themselves to not get some type of kick back for lack of a game
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:47 pm to timlan2057
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I still think everything ought to be home-and-home until the final,
I agree. It's how all football playoffs are done in the NFL and other levels of cfb. It's stupid to force a fanbase to go to 2 or possibly 3 straight neutral site games.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:47 pm to geauxnavybeatbama
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CFP officials stated that the four quarterfinal games and two Playoff Semifinal games will be played in bowls on a rotating basis.
From the NCAA website. Everything from the quarterfinals forward is a “bowl game.” The top four seeds will not play at home.
This post was edited on 11/29/23 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:51 pm to timlan2057
It's incredibly dumb
Obviously you advance one round further but you lose any type of advantage beyond that
Obviously you advance one round further but you lose any type of advantage beyond that
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:54 pm to timlan2057
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The top four seeds will not play at home.
Because they get a bye…
Posted on 11/29/23 at 12:59 pm to atltiger6487
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the bowls are private. Neither the Playoff Committee, the NCAA, nor the conferences can make bowls quit operating. Hell, if you and I wanted to start a bowl and got adequate funding, we could do it. Again, bowls are private organizations, and aren't under the control of anybody.
True but the NCAA doesn’t need to subsidize them with expanded playoff games when it would be a much more exciting product to hold playoff games in the home stadium of the higher seed.
Hell, rotate the championship game among the four big bowls. That’s plenty enough.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 1:00 pm to timlan2057
I don't know. I would hate to go to Ann Arbor to see LSU play Michigan for the first time and the Temps be in the single digits. I'm much rather watch that in Arizona.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 1:04 pm to timlan2057
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Why are lower seeded teams rewarded with something the top seeds aren’t?
Because the higher seeds are rewarded with not having to play a game. You think a team would rather play an extra home game over getting a bye week?
Posted on 11/29/23 at 1:06 pm to LSUSkip
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I don't know. I would hate to go to Ann Arbor to see LSU play Michigan for the first time and the Temps be in the single digits. I'm much rather watch that in Arizona.
But when we’re the higher seed, I’d much rather play Michigan in a playoff semifinal in Tiger Stadium than in Arizona.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 1:07 pm to LSBoosie
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Because the higher seeds are rewarded with not having to play a game. You think a team would rather play an extra home game over getting a bye week?
Huh? I think they should get the bye AND a home game, just like the top seeds in the NFC and the AFC.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 1:16 pm to timlan2057
It depends on who earns the money. If the host team is keeping all that then yea they're gonna complain.
But I actually expect the SEC teams to complain more when they have to play a game in the snow instead of at a traditional bowl site. For that reason I don't expect the bowl sites to go away
But I actually expect the SEC teams to complain more when they have to play a game in the snow instead of at a traditional bowl site. For that reason I don't expect the bowl sites to go away
This post was edited on 11/29/23 at 1:18 pm
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