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re: How will the college playoff go over?
Posted on 8/20/24 at 5:30 pm to lostinbr
Posted on 8/20/24 at 5:30 pm to lostinbr
I also understand the anti playoff expansion side.
The “do or die” regular season in CFB for the last 20 years or so where one loss could potentially eliminate you from the National Title picture made the regular season so incredible and exciting and gut wrenching.
Now, the premier SEC and Big Ten schools each have 2 mulligans.
The “do or die” regular season in CFB for the last 20 years or so where one loss could potentially eliminate you from the National Title picture made the regular season so incredible and exciting and gut wrenching.
Now, the premier SEC and Big Ten schools each have 2 mulligans.
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Posted on 8/20/24 at 5:40 pm to LSBoosie
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I cannot wait until a 10-2 SEC team gets left out altogether as a 10-3 Big12 champion gets a bye and a 12-1 Tulane gets in.
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This will not happen.
All you need is a Big 12 champ who is 10-3 (or worse) and a 10-2 SEC team who finishes outside the top 10. I don’t think either would be all that shocking.
You could argue that specifying Tulane as the G5 team makes it super unlikely if you wanted to be pedantic, but replace “Tulane” with “a G5 team” and I don’t think it’s that far-fetched.
This post was edited on 8/20/24 at 5:41 pm
Posted on 8/20/24 at 5:45 pm to fastlane
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A home playoff game in Tiger Stadium will be epic.
Won’t happen…
…because we’ll be in the top 4.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 6:10 pm to LSUguy2023
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Now, the premier SEC and Big Ten schools each have 2 mulligans.
I don't think that's actually all that true. And even if you could get in with 2 losses it won't be in your hands so you gotta pray other teams get you in. Plus you'll get poor seeding. There's still plenty to play for. The key difference is teams that never had a shot (and thus every game they play in) will still matter. Teams that may have lost a game and thought the season was over. Teams with no hope of breaking top 4 because of conference or schedule or prestige. Those games will now matter. More games will matter.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 6:10 pm to Jax-Tiger
I’m definitely for an expanded college football playoff but I think bowl games are pointless since the playoffs are expanding. Hopefully they will get rid of the bowl games in the future if tv ratings and sales plummet because of the playoffs.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 6:45 pm to atltiger6487
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no, the big regular season matchups will still be huge. They'll affect conference championships, seedings, and playoff byes, all of which are massively important.
Sure, the same thing happens in the NFL, and no one can say they care about every second of every Saints game the way they do LSU.
It’s just different when there are 4 spots vs 12. The urgency, the life or death nature is different.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 6:48 pm to LSUcajun77
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I’m sure the 12 teams will be fun, but I’m afraid it’s not going to end there. They keep moving the needle closer to NFL and it’s not as fun for a college football fan.
FCS and Division II have large playoff fields and they don’t seem to have any problems getting fans to travel or having it feel too much like the NFL
Posted on 8/20/24 at 7:40 pm to TBone1983
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Hopefully they will get rid of the bowl games in the future if tv ratings and sales plummet because of the playoffs.
Nobody is watching the Sominex Siesta Bowl now, as it is.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 11:24 am to Jax-Tiger
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How will the college playoff go over?
Well, teams who make it will think it is the best thing since sliced bread. Teams who just, for whatever subjective NCAA reason, just miss making it, will hate it. If Tigers, for whatever subjective NCAA reasoning, just miss making it, tRant will melt like Kilauea.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:20 pm to TBone1983
quote:who's "they?"
Hopefully they will get rid of the bowl games in the future if tv ratings and sales plummet because of the playoffs.
The bowls are private. Hell, you and I could start a bowl game if we have financial backing.
IMO, it's absurd to have 40+ bowl games. Last year, 82 out of the 133 FBS teams went to a bowl game.
When I was a kid in the 70's there were only 11 bowls, so getting a bowl invitation was actually a big deal. Now, it's meaningless. But as long as a bowl makes money, it'll probably stick around.
But that decision lies with the individual bowls.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:23 pm to Jax-Tiger
How will you feel when a 1-loss SEC or Big Ten team rests players at the end of the year? It's not hard to imagine a scenario where a team is not in line for the league title so they rest many of their starters and coast into the playoffs confident that they will beat a lower seeded team.
This large playoff pool will certainly water down CFB's best aspect: its regular season. For this reason alone, I'm against it.
This large playoff pool will certainly water down CFB's best aspect: its regular season. For this reason alone, I'm against it.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:57 pm to Jax-Tiger
I liked the original bowl system, where the SEC champ played in the Sugar.
But then, there's a lot of football things I liked, that is now gone; touchbacks coming out to the 20. Clock stopping on incomplete and out of bounds plays. Clock stopping in college on first down. Deep kickoffs, and extra points attempted from the 2.
Grand scheme of things, a playoff affects actual gameplay less than any of the things I listed. I do think they need to move to 16 at this point, and scrap the bowls. Probably the conference championships, too- that would enable more playoff games by removing an extra game for the best teams (one less argument to use against expanding the playoff).
Bowls are dead, I would never consider pre-ordering Sugar Bowl tickets like we used to a couple decades back... and honestly I wouldn't even really consider going to a Sugar if it weren't part of the playoff. If you're not in the playoffs, your best players will sit out, no point paying to watch that.
But then, there's a lot of football things I liked, that is now gone; touchbacks coming out to the 20. Clock stopping on incomplete and out of bounds plays. Clock stopping in college on first down. Deep kickoffs, and extra points attempted from the 2.
Grand scheme of things, a playoff affects actual gameplay less than any of the things I listed. I do think they need to move to 16 at this point, and scrap the bowls. Probably the conference championships, too- that would enable more playoff games by removing an extra game for the best teams (one less argument to use against expanding the playoff).
Bowls are dead, I would never consider pre-ordering Sugar Bowl tickets like we used to a couple decades back... and honestly I wouldn't even really consider going to a Sugar if it weren't part of the playoff. If you're not in the playoffs, your best players will sit out, no point paying to watch that.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 1:00 pm to Jax-Tiger
I wish it had been 8 instead of 12 but then again 12 may be the only way LSU gets in this year
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