re: 14 to 16 team playoff is coming

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I was free to not run track/xc. I chose to. That was my job in exchange for a reduced cost education. And I also was free to work another job which I did. Two as a matter of fact.

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Ah, so you were a student athlete in a non revenue sport, you made nobody any money, and therefore you feel qualified to offer the opinion that revenue generating athletes generating tens of millions of dollars should not get paid because they’re the same as you?

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Student athletes are not labor. They are students. They are not professionals and should not be paid like professionals. If they want to be paid, they should declare for the draft.

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No, in revenue generating sports like football, where quite literally tens of millions of dollars are generated, it is indeed labor. These players are putting in more hours for their sport than most employees of the Universities. They then market these players to sell shite to fans. Its labor. It isn’t some kid playing for his family, it is an industrial economy in which they were exploited for economic gain.

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Wow, the SEC needs more guaranteed spots to increase their level of competition to playing full house schedules like the other power league does instead of scheduling FCS schools in November.

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i get that you're trolling the SEC,

But the fact remains that there are teams outside the power conferences. Maybe there should be another tier, but as of now there isn't.
Are you saying they should just play themselves? What, then, about the argument that going 12-0 in a small conference is worthless because they didn't play anyone?

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The Big ten and SEC shouldn’t be playing FCS teams at all.

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There is no scheduling standardization in CFB. It is dumb

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I get you with that. But part of the problem is, you want to share the money with local, smaller schools...
in the South some of those schools are FCS. You have the SWAC/HBCU schools; Southern is in BR just like LSU. Insane mismatch, but in a way it makes more sense for LSU to provide sacrificial money to Southern than it does a MAC school. Both are auto-wins, one's in your state.

As for quality of competition- some of the FCS teams, the Dakota teams for example, are more challenging than most G5 on the field. Big 12 teams have played them, K State lost not that long ago.

It shouldn't be a formula, there should be some educated "eye test" (for lack of a better term) involved with assessing schedules. Playing South Dakota (FCS) should count for more than playing ULM or Akron (G5), and playing Boise (G5) should count for more than playing Miss State or Purdue (P4).

Formulas can have loopholes. I said years ago when La Tech was good, they could schedule bottom dwellers from the ACC, SEC, Big 10, Big 12 and Pac 12, and go 11-1. And they'd still get their teeth kicked in by the real powers, but they'd fit the criteria.

Cause 12 worked out so well

Not sure how they expect fans to pay for 4 fricking playoff games. Dumb

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The 1 and 2 seed get byes

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Shouldn't be a thing. Period.

have to scrap conference title games then. Can't have some teams playing an extra game at the end of a long season.

ETA - Also lets the auto bid go to the team that had the best conference slate, not just one Saturday in december.

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No, in revenue generating sports like football, where quite literally tens of millions of dollars are generated, it is indeed labor.

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why does the amount of revenue generated matter? A fotball player and a womens diver are both student athletes going to school and playing a sport. One can't be called labor if the other isn't.

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These players are putting in more hours for their sport than most employees of the Universities. They then market these players to sell shite to fans. Its labor. It isn’t some kid playing for his family, it is an industrial economy in which they were exploited for economic gain

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All these "boo hoo woe to those poor children" are so astoundingly misguided. Prior to all this shite we have now, football players received:

-free tuition
-free housing
-free books
-free tutoring
-free clothes
-free meals
-free medical care
-a monetary stipend

not to mention a televised tryout seen by millions for a potential job at the next level. All of the items above are well...WELL...into the 6 figures over a 3 year span. The cost to a normal student, espeically with out of state tuition, would be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. So forgive me for not feeling an ounce of pity for them.

But just like with almost everything else, money and greed have ruined it. In about a 5 year span we went from "hey that pixelated video game image is supposed to be me maybe I should get something for that" to "my services are open to anyone in the country paying me at least $2M up front, in addition to these other demands. I will be on a 1 year contract and will open up my services again next year to the highest bidder'.

Anyone that thinks ^^^^ that is the way CFB should be run is fricking stupid. The amount of money generated by the school could not possibly be more irrelevant.