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re: No reason to schedule tough games for playoff committee
Posted on 12/4/19 at 7:44 am to UGATiger26
Posted on 12/4/19 at 7:44 am to UGATiger26
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Essentially, certain teams get a "pedigree bonus" based on the history of their program. History should be an absolute non-factor when all that should be considered is what teams have done this season.
It doesn’t only happen in football, it happens in life.
Joe Blow commits a crime and he gets 50 years in prison.
Joe Blueblood’s son commits the same crime, he get probation.
It’s always going to be this way.
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Posted on 12/4/19 at 7:44 am to schwartzy
The committee chair flat out said it's because the number of ranked wins. So because Cincinnati is somehow still ranked after losing last week, OSU has 4 ranked wins compared to LSU's 3.
In conclusion, beating Cincinnati 42-0 at home is more impressive than beating #9 (at kickoff, pre injuries) Texas on the road.
LSU should schedule more App States, Boises, Memphi, etc.
In conclusion, beating Cincinnati 42-0 at home is more impressive than beating #9 (at kickoff, pre injuries) Texas on the road.
LSU should schedule more App States, Boises, Memphi, etc.
Posted on 12/4/19 at 7:48 am to geauxbrown
Need to schedule Tulane again as our tough out of conference game. Rest of the out of conference games need to be ULL, Nicholls, Southeastern, etc
Posted on 12/4/19 at 8:18 am to memphis tiger
“CCG’s should be de facto playoff games.”
Thats so stupid. They aren’t though. We’re the only one of the big 3 playing another playoff caliber opponent in our championship game.
That hurts us in two ways. One we’re just playing a much tougher team. And two were the only one who will get “jumped” by our opponent with a loss. Ohio state and Clemson, if by some miracle they lost, wouldn’t get jumped by Wisconsin and Virginia.
So just bc LSU happens to have by far the toughest CCG we have to play three playoff games and the similarly situated teams have to play two? GTFO
Thats so stupid. They aren’t though. We’re the only one of the big 3 playing another playoff caliber opponent in our championship game.
That hurts us in two ways. One we’re just playing a much tougher team. And two were the only one who will get “jumped” by our opponent with a loss. Ohio state and Clemson, if by some miracle they lost, wouldn’t get jumped by Wisconsin and Virginia.
So just bc LSU happens to have by far the toughest CCG we have to play three playoff games and the similarly situated teams have to play two? GTFO
Posted on 12/4/19 at 8:22 am to Ace Midnight
I think the “work put into Texas” was worth it bc it forced us to be prepared that much earlier in the season.
Posted on 12/4/19 at 8:23 am to Summer of George
I'm really surprised nobody talks about this.
The college football playoffs was a bait and switch.
The history of college football postseason has always been a power struggle between people who wanted the game to be fair and equitable(mostly fans, players, coaches and some media members, mostly media members who were former players and coaches) and those that wanted to control the matchups(television networks) to maximize ratings thus maximizing ad revenue and merchandising sales thus pull in lots of $$.
There was a time when a select group of media member pollsters selected the two top teams to play in the national championship. People were tired of the bullshite so the BCS computer formula was instituted to remove their power, bias, agenda and error. You still saw them throw hissy-fits like in 2003 when the AP poll crowned USC the national champion and the BCS computer poll coldly and calculatingly selected the correct National Champion, LSU.
However, over the years the human power grabbers bitched and whined and cried and so the BCS formula was constantly tweaked to weigh more and more of the formulas algorithm on the human polls.
Then the Mulligan game happened.
This gave them their opportunity to strike. To take total control.
So you want a playoff?
No problem. We'll have a playoff.
People were so elated that college football was finally going to have a play-in to the national championship game, just like the professionals in the NFL, that everybody ignored the fact that they just pulled the biggest Heist ever. A select group of individuals, barely numbering over a dozen, holds the fate of the entire college football world in their hands and are accountable to no one and have highly subjective and ever-changing selection criteria with no penalty for getting it wrong.
Game, set, match. Suckers.
The college football playoffs was a bait and switch.
The history of college football postseason has always been a power struggle between people who wanted the game to be fair and equitable(mostly fans, players, coaches and some media members, mostly media members who were former players and coaches) and those that wanted to control the matchups(television networks) to maximize ratings thus maximizing ad revenue and merchandising sales thus pull in lots of $$.
There was a time when a select group of media member pollsters selected the two top teams to play in the national championship. People were tired of the bullshite so the BCS computer formula was instituted to remove their power, bias, agenda and error. You still saw them throw hissy-fits like in 2003 when the AP poll crowned USC the national champion and the BCS computer poll coldly and calculatingly selected the correct National Champion, LSU.
However, over the years the human power grabbers bitched and whined and cried and so the BCS formula was constantly tweaked to weigh more and more of the formulas algorithm on the human polls.
Then the Mulligan game happened.
This gave them their opportunity to strike. To take total control.
So you want a playoff?
No problem. We'll have a playoff.
People were so elated that college football was finally going to have a play-in to the national championship game, just like the professionals in the NFL, that everybody ignored the fact that they just pulled the biggest Heist ever. A select group of individuals, barely numbering over a dozen, holds the fate of the entire college football world in their hands and are accountable to no one and have highly subjective and ever-changing selection criteria with no penalty for getting it wrong.
Game, set, match. Suckers.
This post was edited on 12/4/19 at 8:31 am
Posted on 12/4/19 at 8:24 am to schwartzy
tOSU scheduled tougher opponents than LSU did, and tOSU is ranked ahead of LSU.
Can’t believe people still are ignoring this. The point you’re making is mathematically wrong.
Can’t believe people still are ignoring this. The point you’re making is mathematically wrong.
Posted on 12/4/19 at 8:26 am to xiv
Good morning, annoying douche.
Posted on 12/4/19 at 8:30 am to Ace Midnight
Ohio State learned this during the Tressel Era.
Schedule creampuffs and win the league and league championship and you are in.
Alabama and Clemson were quick studies and do the same thing.
If LSU had a soft non-league schedule and then won the league and SEC Championship they would go to the playoffs.
Schedule creampuffs and win the league and league championship and you are in.
Alabama and Clemson were quick studies and do the same thing.
If LSU had a soft non-league schedule and then won the league and SEC Championship they would go to the playoffs.
Posted on 12/4/19 at 8:36 am to schwartzy
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Very concerned this committee will drop us to #5 if we lose
I really wish people who say this shite would just go away. It's like you people want or hope LSU loses just to get it out of the way and move forward. Its ridiculous. Multiple threads about losing to UGA in SECCG, what if's, all that. You guys can get fricked. There is little, VERY LITTLE, indication from what i've seen this year, that LSU has any intention on losing. UGA in my opinion, hasn't shown me any more than any team that LSU has smacked up this year.
Posted on 12/4/19 at 9:55 am to Kracka
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There is little, VERY LITTLE, indication from what i've seen this year, that LSU has any intention on losing.
Lol LSU isn't going to try to lose? ya dont say...
This post was edited on 12/4/19 at 9:56 am
Posted on 12/4/19 at 2:31 pm to LifeAquatic
quote:
Lol LSU isn't going to try to lose? ya dont say...
You know what I mean. Don't be a fig
Posted on 12/4/19 at 3:51 pm to mark fortney
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Ohio State learned this during the Tressel Era.
Schedule creampuffs and win the league and league championship and you are in.
A look at past schedules says you're wrong about scheduling creampuffs.
2002 Texas Tech #10 Washington St.
2003 #17 Washington, #24 NC State
2004 NC State
2005 #2 Texas
2006 #2 Texas
2007 Washington
2008 #1 USC
2009 #3 USC
2010 #12 Miami
2011 Miami
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