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re: Former CBS Sports President Neal Pilson: Eight-Team College Football Playoff is Inevitable
Posted on 1/4/18 at 2:29 pm to Bench McElroy
Posted on 1/4/18 at 2:29 pm to Bench McElroy
Boom
Let's do it
Let's do it
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Posted on 1/4/18 at 2:29 pm to IAmReality
quote:
Welcome to the world of college football 'resting starters' the final week(s) of the regular season.
There are plenty of ways to dissuade this from happening.
Home field advantage is one. As another poster said, in college football home field holds a massive advantage. Not to mention, an AD is in no way going to let their school tank a game if it means a possible extra home game. That gameday money is too precious.
Also if they reduce the season back to 11 games, each game instantly means more.
Not to mention seeding.
Trying to compare 100+ teams battling for 8 spots (college), to 32 teams battling for 12 spots (NFL) is silly IMO.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 2:32 pm to PeteRose
quote:Bama pretty much already did this. Unless they go to 16 and playoff should consist of conference champions only
I guess #1 and 2 team can tank the last wk of the season to avoid injuries and still make it to the dance
Posted on 1/4/18 at 2:53 pm to wildtigercat93
quote:I mean, you know that is going to happen.
Never thought you'd be a slippery slope kind of guy
Everybody being rational about this knows that going to 8 teams won't stop the complaining about teams being left out in the least.
Going from 2 to 4 we saw tons of people saying that would stop the complaining...again, they weren't being rational, everyone should have known that would not happen.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 2:55 pm to Bench McElroy
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Georgia doesn't have quite the name appeal as Alabama has. I've got to emphasize that game at the Rose Bowl made Georgia.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:06 pm to Bench McElroy
Now you can get ready for the number 9, 10, and 11 ranked teams in the nation hollering about why not them.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:13 pm to sms151t
quote:
Yet it has not killed any other division. I do not get people's stupidity on this. You still play for seeding and you are not going to go out and purposefully lose.
My only issue these last two years is the direction Hocutt took the committee away from its purpose. To crown a champion not find the best team.
Didn't kill any other division because there was nothing to kill. Nothing from nothing equals nothing.
A "champion" which isn't the "best team" isn't much of a champion, more of a tournament winner.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:15 pm to corneredbeast
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A "champion" which isn't the "best team" isn't much of a champion, more of a tournament winner
So what is the best team then?
Explain that to me please? Because I know what a champion is, they are the team that won a championship in someway.
This post was edited on 1/4/18 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:17 pm to corneredbeast
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A "champion" which isn't the "best team" isn't much of a champion, more of a tournament winner.
So every single pro American sports league has false champions according to you.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:27 pm to LSUBoo
quote:
Well, this is the case in pretty much every other sport (to some degree or another) and they seem to do just fine.
Except one of the reasons I like college football so much is that every single regular season game matters. I don't care what other sports do. I'd rather not devalue the regular season.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:29 pm to VerlanderBEAST
quote:
Bama pretty much already did this
wut
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:30 pm to Porcine Human
How will adding teams devalue the regular season? Explain how this is, when in every other college sport the regular season is not devalued.
Again, you are playing for seeding, home games, byes, etc. Why would you go risk that?
Again, you are playing for seeding, home games, byes, etc. Why would you go risk that?
This post was edited on 1/4/18 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:30 pm to Dr RC
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So every single pro American sports league has false champions according to you.
No, but I like that college football rewards the teams that played better throughout the entire season, not just caught fire at the right time.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:31 pm to Porcine Human
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No, but I like that college football rewards the teams that played better throughout the entire season, not just caught fire at the right time.
So why is UCF and Wisconsin sitting at home now, without earning a chance?
This post was edited on 1/4/18 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:41 pm to sms151t
quote:
How will adding teams devalue the regular season? Explain how this is, when in every other college sport the regular season is not devalued.
Well it's kind of hard to compare football with other sports considering the number of games played. But I like how the #1 team could lose a game and be knocked out of contention... just makes the games more intense. Now, they still might get in, but it adds extra tension. Expand to #8 and you lose some of that tension.
I'm not 100% against 8 teams, but I lean towards the #8 team in the country not being deserving of being in contention for best team in the country.
quote:
Again, you are playing for seeding, home games, byes, etc. Why would you go risk that?
I don't know what kind of rules they'd put in place so it's hard to speculate
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:45 pm to sms151t
quote:
So why is UCF and Wisconsin sitting at home now, without earning a chance?
Because their schedules weren't difficult enough
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:48 pm to PeteRose
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I guess #1 and 2 team can tank the last wk of the season to avoid injuries and still make it to the dance.
Lol bro, Alabama lost to Auburn the last week of the season and still made it in. GTFO
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:48 pm to Porcine Human
Not difficult enough based off a subjective measurement? Tell me exactly why we are using SOS as an ingredient when that is easily manipulated and has been showed to be a flawed argument.
I am just confused on why we are rewarding teams that did not win a championship yet punishing those that did. My issue is not with Alabama, it is with Hocutt and how he has undermined the CFP. He clearly took the mandate that was given to Jeff Long and threw it in the trash..
I am just confused on why we are rewarding teams that did not win a championship yet punishing those that did. My issue is not with Alabama, it is with Hocutt and how he has undermined the CFP. He clearly took the mandate that was given to Jeff Long and threw it in the trash..
This post was edited on 1/4/18 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:54 pm to Bunk Moreland
quote:those are CONFERENCE championship games... Which should have nothing to do with the playoff
But, something has to be done about conference championship games or else the issue of someone sitting at home and jumping a CCG loser is still going to be a huge problem.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:55 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:
"I think, from a television point of view, any sports executive would tell you he would prefer a team from the different part of the country,"
Followed by this to bolster the argument for expanding from four teams:
quote:
There has been growing consternation this season that the only undefeated FBS team (UCF) was left out now that it has defeated an Auburn team that beat both finalists by a combined 35 points
UCF, from the same region of the country as the two finalists. Auburn referenced as UCF's big validation win...from the same state as one of the finalists.
You either want the 4 best teams or you don't. This is why I don't trust the long term impartiality of a "panel" making the ultimate calls. They are going to be influenced by powerful people and financial interests rather than just "the best 4" or 8 or whatever.
I still say go back to the BCS system and make it top 4.
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