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re: CFB Commissioners discussed growing the playoff field to 14 teams
Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:43 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:43 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
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This is so dumb. No team outside the top 10 is winning a title anyway. I would say 12 is too many and it should have been 8
It never should have expanded beyond 6 or 8 but this isn’t about what’s best for the sport. Only $$$ and they are gonna keep going to juice every last cent they can.
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Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:47 pm to Epic Cajun
What you guys never address is the bias in the polls. You throw out rankings as if they mean something. They don’t because they are just opinion. Look at UGA. They were ranked #1 all freaking season and lose 1 game by a small margin and suddenly they aren’t even a top 4 team? And Michigan was never ranked #1 and are now the champs. So, the polls were clearly wrong all season. This idea that your team beat #10, #13, and #18 is just pure conjecture. I especially love when they say team A beat the #2 team, yet at the end of the year the team that was ranked #2 is now #21, but they never tell you that.
Look at the early preseason polls ESPN has already put on their website. They are completely biased to set the playoff narrative.
And you guys who say the lower tier have no chance must be young or naive. Every sport that has a playoff system will have upsets. We see it every year. College football is no different. And now you add in depth loss to the portal and more opportunities for injury and I think it’s a recipe for a great time. If the players are gonna shake the schools down for cash then I think it’s great that the sport is making them play more games to earn it. And I’ll be laughing my butt off when these prima donnas that the big boys recruit and cater too at every turn decide to skip the playoffs because their advisors say the risk is to great for their next contract.
All of this was caused by schools and coaches who put winning at all costs over recruiting real student athletes. Now, we all are reaping the inmates taking over. I’m loving it. As a fan of a team that has had no chance the past 30 years because we decided not to recruit people on 4th grade levels to our school, I am enjoying these fanbases twist in the wind as these man-children control your fate.
Look at the early preseason polls ESPN has already put on their website. They are completely biased to set the playoff narrative.
And you guys who say the lower tier have no chance must be young or naive. Every sport that has a playoff system will have upsets. We see it every year. College football is no different. And now you add in depth loss to the portal and more opportunities for injury and I think it’s a recipe for a great time. If the players are gonna shake the schools down for cash then I think it’s great that the sport is making them play more games to earn it. And I’ll be laughing my butt off when these prima donnas that the big boys recruit and cater too at every turn decide to skip the playoffs because their advisors say the risk is to great for their next contract.
All of this was caused by schools and coaches who put winning at all costs over recruiting real student athletes. Now, we all are reaping the inmates taking over. I’m loving it. As a fan of a team that has had no chance the past 30 years because we decided not to recruit people on 4th grade levels to our school, I am enjoying these fanbases twist in the wind as these man-children control your fate.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:57 pm to RunningJacket
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And you guys who say the lower tier have no chance must be young or naive. Every sport that has a playoff system will have upsets. We see it every year. College football is no different. And now you add in depth loss to the portal and more opportunities for injury and I think it’s a recipe for a great time. If the players are gonna shake the schools down for cash then I think it’s great that the sport is making them play more games to earn it. And I’ll be laughing my butt off when these prima donnas that the big boys recruit and cater too at every turn decide to skip the playoffs because their advisors say the risk is to great for their next contract.
A single upset? Maybe.
A lower tier school is not going to beat 4 top tier P5 schools consecutively. It's not going to happen.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:57 pm to RunningJacket
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What you guys never address is the bias in the polls. You throw out rankings as if they mean something. They don’t because they are just opinion. Look at UGA. They were ranked #1 all freaking season and lose 1 game by a small margin and suddenly they aren’t even a top 4 team?
exactly. determining byes based off polls makes it still invalid. If a team has to play an extra game because of being ranked #5 instead of #4, you cant tell if that extra game changed the outcome.
it'll be fine if a G5 school is in the 5 spot, but what if it's a P5 conference champ. this format leaves that possibility open.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:48 pm to Corinthians420
From most interpretations the 5th conference champion doesn’t auto get the 5th seed. They are seeded by rank. So there’s a good chance that the shite tier G5 champion will be ranked 12th and will have to play the 5th seed on the road.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:48 pm to RunningJacket
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Every sport that has a playoff system will have upsets.
Parity in college football is terrible. This is going to lead to even more all SEC/BIG final fours.
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and more opportunities for injury and I think it’s a recipe for a great time.
You keep saying this but this isn’t good at all.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:58 pm to RLDSC FAN
I think 14 is a bit much and 12 seems a good number, but will need to see it play out to really judge how it works. I love all the people in this thread speaking in absolutes though as if they are infallible.
Same people that swore up and down the CFP championship game would be a Bama/Texas rematch and there was nothing Michigan or UW could do about it. Or that TCU would lose to Michigan last year.
That’s why we play the games. You don’t know until you know.
Same people that swore up and down the CFP championship game would be a Bama/Texas rematch and there was nothing Michigan or UW could do about it. Or that TCU would lose to Michigan last year.
That’s why we play the games. You don’t know until you know.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:44 pm to Epic Cajun
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A lower tier school is not going to beat 4 top tier P5 schools consecutively. It's not going to happen.
TCU had their big upset by 6 points and then lost by a,million points the next week in the worst title game of all-time.
This is this shite we're gonna see in a 14-team playoff.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:47 pm to Epic Cajun
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From most interpretations the 5th conference champion doesn’t auto get the 5th seed. They are seeded by rank. So there’s a good chance that the shite tier G5 champion will be ranked 12th and will have to play the 5th seed on the road.
Question, does the Zombie PAC 12 still have an autobid?
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:49 pm to RLDSC FAN
I think Michigan still wins
This post was edited on 2/22/24 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 2/23/24 at 2:00 am to JimTiger72
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I think Michigan still wins
Well they beat Ohio State, beat the SEC champ, beat the team that beat Texas and Oregon twice.
All this is going to do is have blowouts and the random false champion who gets,a 3rd or 4th chance and ignores their regular season because of name...and fricking ESPN just wanting to make money and manufacture outcomes.
This post was edited on 2/23/24 at 2:01 am
Posted on 2/23/24 at 5:10 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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This is this shite we're gonna see in a 14-team playoff.
This is what we're going to see with a 12-team playoff to be perfectly honest. Upsets will undoubtedly happen in the first round, but the teams with talent and depth are going to flex their muscle in the later rounds. This isn't the NFL where everyone's roster is close to equal. There is a serious talent discrepancy in major college football that will make for some very boring second and third round games.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 5:27 am to JimTiger72
Told y’all they would ruin this. Disgrace.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 6:12 am to RunningJacket
quote:just like the fcs playoffs. Surely North Dakota state or one of its rivals don’t win it every single year!
An expanded playoff and the portal stripping depth is by far the two best thing that could have happened to a sport that has become stale with the same 10 teams the past 30 years. Upsets are going to happen no matter how many times you say they won’t. Most posters here were posting how Bama was just gonna waltz to the Natty and you gave Michigan no respect. We see how that turned out.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 6:24 am to JimTiger72
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NFL does 14 out of 32 teams
Every season any team can lose to anybody any week.
In college football there are rarely four teams that can beat anyone much less 14
It’s a money grab and an awful idea.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 6:26 am to RunningJacket
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Most posters here were posting how Bama was just gonna waltz to the Natty and you gave Michigan no respect. We see how that turned out.
Alabama was the underdog in that game according to Vegas.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 7:29 am to RLDSC FAN
They’ll expand it to 16 teams and stop there
Posted on 2/23/24 at 7:30 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Calling it now, 3-loss Bama is in.
BAMA hasn't lost 3 games in 14 years. You must be confusing us with mere mortals.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 7:38 am to bamameister
Saban is gone baw. 8-4 next year
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:46 am to chalmetteowl
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Question, does the Zombie PAC 12 still have an autobid?
There are no conference tie ins to the auto-bids. It’s just the 5 highest ranked conference champions.
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