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What college football needs...
Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:19 pm
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Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:26 pm to lich51644
That game between Chelsea and Liverpool yesterday was great. As usual the fans were awesome and game was exciting even though I was rooting for Chelsea.
As far as the playoffs, expend it to 8 teams and leave the bowl games to the 9-18 teams then cancel the rest.
As far as the playoffs, expend it to 8 teams and leave the bowl games to the 9-18 teams then cancel the rest.
Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:27 pm to lich51644
Exactly where are you trying to take this? I appreciate the fact you are trying to use your brain besides a hat rack like most people here.
Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:28 pm to lich51644
I think the problem is the time it takes to add a larger playoff bracket and the NCAA has there nose up every little thing that goes on. 4 teams or 40 teams...They can't fix the unfix-able and there will always be controversy.
Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:31 pm to Tigers4life
What they need is an 8 team playoff and that’s it. The bowls are absolutely useless at this point.
Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:32 pm to Tiger1988
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As far as the playoffs, expend it to 8 teams and leave the bowl games to the 9-18 teams then cancel the rest.
8 team playoff will be perfect - Power 5 conference champs with an automatic bid, and give 3 at large bids. It doesn't dilute the regular season at all, it rewards conference champs, and only leaves 3 spots for the committee. I'm much happier with the committee picking teams 6-8 rather than 1-4.
As for the other bowls - I agree that most of them are garbage, but they're private - the NCAA doesn't run them, so they can do what they want.
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Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:40 pm to lich51644
This would require 13-team tiers, a point accumulation system, a tiebreaker mechanism, and some way to compensate for away games considering there would be no return trips in a 12 game schedule. That is before you start talking about wrecking century old conference and rivalry partnerships, and severely disrupting everybody's revenue structures.
Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:43 pm to lich51644
And for the record I love European soccer and am a huge proponent of pro/rel, MLB should look at the system.
Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:43 pm to atltiger6487
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Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:51 pm to white beans
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Posted on 11/26/17 at 4:54 pm to lich51644
First off, college football wants to get the best two teams to play each other. I'm pretty certain that the best two are in the top four chosen to play in the play off.
Second,Alabama has no right to expect to play for the championship. They didn't even win their own division and are NOT playing for the SEC title in Atlanta this weekend. Sorry, Gumps. At the very least you should win your division if you expect an invite to the play offs.
Finally, these are college students and not NFL athletes (yet). There are classes to attend and grades to be maintained for eligibility. Football isn't like basketball. Football eats the players up and spits them out like so much sausage. Then there's the crowd size. College basketball might draw 25,000 for a game in a venue like Kentucky's Rupp Arena, but football crowds are regularly three times that size for bowl games. And the tickets prices for football far outweigh those of basketball playoffs.
The four team playoff is just right. I really didn't like the idea from the start since it was obvious that folks would soon want to make it eight, then 16, then 32, then 64 teams making a bid for a college national title.
Leave it at four teams. It's not unfair if a good team gets left out. The idea is to get the top two teams playing each other. Most assuredly those top two teams are among the top four that are included in the play off.
Second,Alabama has no right to expect to play for the championship. They didn't even win their own division and are NOT playing for the SEC title in Atlanta this weekend. Sorry, Gumps. At the very least you should win your division if you expect an invite to the play offs.
Finally, these are college students and not NFL athletes (yet). There are classes to attend and grades to be maintained for eligibility. Football isn't like basketball. Football eats the players up and spits them out like so much sausage. Then there's the crowd size. College basketball might draw 25,000 for a game in a venue like Kentucky's Rupp Arena, but football crowds are regularly three times that size for bowl games. And the tickets prices for football far outweigh those of basketball playoffs.
The four team playoff is just right. I really didn't like the idea from the start since it was obvious that folks would soon want to make it eight, then 16, then 32, then 64 teams making a bid for a college national title.
Leave it at four teams. It's not unfair if a good team gets left out. The idea is to get the top two teams playing each other. Most assuredly those top two teams are among the top four that are included in the play off.
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Posted on 11/26/17 at 5:08 pm to Swamp Angel
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Posted on 11/26/17 at 5:32 pm to Maurice tiger fan
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What they need is an 8 team playoff and that’s it. The bowls are absolutely useless at this point.
I think people will always still watch the Rose Bowl.
But yeah, outside of the bowls used for the 3 playoff games right now, I doubt most people care.
If you go to 10 teams, you make bowls great again.
This post was edited on 11/26/17 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 11/26/17 at 6:56 pm to lich51644
Yes, 4th ranked OSU won in 2015. What I'm saying is that out of these top four schools, you will have the two best teams included in that count. They will find each other and they will play for the championship. There's no need to expand it to eight teams unless you're only in it for the money.
Really and truly, I'd like to see the NFL be able to draft players right out of high school and put them on a "minor league" team. After all, what's the point of making a talented player with NFL aptitude and no scholastic ability struggle through college courses to maintain playing eligibility?
Let the super-talented go pro without having to be culled by the NCAA.Then allow other "student-athletes" to fill the roles and receive athletic scholarships in order to help pay for an education that will result in a meaningful degree. It's time we quit using universities as NFL minor league teams.
The money coming in from athletics will still be there. There will still be national championships to be played. The alumni will still shell out big bucks for the good seats at the games.
Despite what many may think, LSU is a university. It is an institution of higher learning that teaches engineering, physics, architecture, music, arts, etc.
LSU is much more than football, basketball, or baseball. And the same goes for other institutions around the country.
We all love LSU sports because of the visibility, but fewer than 1% of the student body is involved in NCAA sports.
(And now I'm getting on my soap box, so I'll be quiet from here. I didn't mean to belittle anyone or any part of our beloved university. I love our sports teams as much as anyone, but I think we need to come to the realization that maybe we as a nation are getting too concerned about our sports teams and neglecting those things a university provides by way of education.)
Really and truly, I'd like to see the NFL be able to draft players right out of high school and put them on a "minor league" team. After all, what's the point of making a talented player with NFL aptitude and no scholastic ability struggle through college courses to maintain playing eligibility?
Let the super-talented go pro without having to be culled by the NCAA.Then allow other "student-athletes" to fill the roles and receive athletic scholarships in order to help pay for an education that will result in a meaningful degree. It's time we quit using universities as NFL minor league teams.
The money coming in from athletics will still be there. There will still be national championships to be played. The alumni will still shell out big bucks for the good seats at the games.
Despite what many may think, LSU is a university. It is an institution of higher learning that teaches engineering, physics, architecture, music, arts, etc.
LSU is much more than football, basketball, or baseball. And the same goes for other institutions around the country.
We all love LSU sports because of the visibility, but fewer than 1% of the student body is involved in NCAA sports.
(And now I'm getting on my soap box, so I'll be quiet from here. I didn't mean to belittle anyone or any part of our beloved university. I love our sports teams as much as anyone, but I think we need to come to the realization that maybe we as a nation are getting too concerned about our sports teams and neglecting those things a university provides by way of education.)
Posted on 11/27/17 at 11:13 am to lich51644
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That still wouldn't solve the problem of teams playing in a weak conference. It's extremely hard to build a reputable program for a team like Western Michigan that played great in 2016, but then play the same opponents for next year.
unfortunately there's no great solution for this, in a sport with 130 teams and only a 12 game schedule, 8 or more of which are within your own conference.
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