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re: NCAA Playoffs Look Like A Reality in 2014
Posted on 2/26/12 at 9:36 am to medtiger
Posted on 2/26/12 at 9:36 am to medtiger
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The problem I have with this 4 team playoff system is the conference champion rule and the risk a team will take by playing in a conference championship game. I really believe that either all conferences will need to determine a champ the same way. In years such as 2001, 2003, and 2011 when Tennessee, Oklahoma, and LSU were all very clearly top 4 teams in the country regardless of the outcomes of their conference championship games, they'd be left out of this playoff with a loss. I have a problem with that when not every conference has that game.
That's a good point, but the alternative is to have the CCG be meaningless. Oklahoma lost and still made it to the Sugar Bowl. LSU could have lost to UGA and still been in the Dome on January 9.
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Posted on 2/26/12 at 10:05 am to Bestbank Tiger
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the alternative is to have the CCG be meaningless.
They aren't meaningless. They determine the conference champion, which is still really important in college football. And, it isn't those teams' fault that their regular season performance was so good that they could afford to lose a game and still be in the top 4. One thing I don't like about college football is how games at the end of the season are valued more than games early in the season. It should be more about who you lost to than when it occurred.
If the point of this system is to get the 4 best teams into the playoff (which is highly debatable), then it's laughable to say a team has to be a conference champion to get in. Wild cards exist in professional sports for a reason.
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