re: Moscona's rant on the playoff committee (with link)

I heard it yesterday while I was cutting grass and I agree with him on a good amount of what he is taking about but the clamoring for more teams in a playoff is baffling to me. What IS and HAS BEEN wrong with college football is the regular season, not the post season. The regular season has not been addressed enough in regards to scheduling and conference inequality among power 5 and requirements for group of 5 schools to be in consideration for playoff discussion. The notion of expanding a playoff to more teams doesn't address any of that...it only expands it. It says, "well, we have a broke system so to fix it we're going to use that broke system more." That makes ZERO sense. The issues wasn't that we only selected TWO teams for the BCS and it's not that we select FOUR teams for the CFB playoff. It's HOW we select those teams and the sample sizes we are given to select them because of the disparity between conferences and teams within a conference. Some power 5 conferences play 9 conf games, others play 8. Some power 5 schools play more FCS schools than others. Some power 5 schools have permanent cross division opponents and others do not, etc etc etc. College football NEEDS more cross conference competition and it needs group of 5 schools to play on the road against power 5 schools. I have been saying this for 20+ years and when everyone was jumping up and down for a playoff, this is exactly what I said was going to happen and if a playoff is expanded without addressing he real issues, I can promise you...it won't be any better. It may be bigger and it may make more $ and it may be different, but it won't be any better. People wanted a playoff. The media wanted it. The conferences wanted it. The presidents wanted it. This was never about fixing anything it was about making more money. Congrats, here's your playoff.

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when he first came on he was absurdly childish and juvenile

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TB is still that way. Dude loves the sound of his own voice. I don’t “hate” anyone but he forces me to change the station more often than not.

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The fact that LSU’s strongest OOC opponent didn’t pan out isn’t the rest of the world’s problem.

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Baylor's 24-10 win over Texas saw it surge from No. 14 to No. 9.

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Explain why LSU’s victory over UT isn’t a quality win for LSU, but it is for Baylor.

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Explain why LSU’s victory over UT isn’t a quality win for LSU, but it is for Baylor.

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It isn’t.

ETA: The difference between 1&2 can be bigger than the difference between 9&14. Just checked my rankings, and that happens to be the case for me as we speak.

He definitely loves Alabama too much. Other than that I like his show.

agreed 100%.

I recall being excited when the playoff push was coming. Thinking, the BCS formula, top 4 teams, make it happen. Then they announced it would be determined by a committee. I mean, you'd have to bring in people completely oblivious to sports for them to have an unbiased opinion on it. What a complete disaster it is to have a committee.

Old school BCS formula, with SOS built in, all algorithms and metrics published, so no biases or scheming can go on behind closed doors. Play the season, spit out the numbers, generate a top 4, and there's nothing to discuss. Its transparent and unbiased. But that makes too much sense.

Why isn't the national media latching onto this? It's clear cut bias IMO. Great rant.....he really laid it out.

I like the comparisons of Michigan and Bama the most. Unless there's an obvious objective, no way Bama drops that far in any other scenario.

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So you decided you didn't want to finish listening to the segment, but also decided that HE comes a cross as lazy for not knowing something you didn't take the time to listen to?

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He’s getting paid. I provide my genius content here for free. So yes.

I agree with him on everything, except for the part where he again tried to make expanding the playoffs the answer.

Is LSU not currently in the top 4? Yes, they're in it. But the argument is about seeding, and how the heck is OSU ahead of LSU. I agree, and have been on that case just like everyone else around here.

So if we expand the playoff, what changes? We're still going to have a committee deciding it. We're still going to be dealing with whatever biases they might have. And if you go to, say, eight teams, all that means is teams 9 through 12, or however many, will complain that THEY were unfairly left out.

This is about the 100th time I'll be making this point: This isn't the NFL. You don't have a limited number of teams, and teams who are all playing the same level of competition, where you just take the division winners, and the teams with the best records. It's college. There are around 120 division 1 teams, and 10 conferences. Conferences which are not equal in strength. That means there will always be subjectivity in the selection process.

The problem is that this committee is not qualified to do this job. It will never be perfect. It simply can't be. But this 13 member panel, as Moscona highlighted, is an absolute circus.