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re: ADs Overwhelmingly Favor Expanded College Football Playoff
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:28 pm to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:28 pm to RLDSC FAN
Because the semi-finals have been so great right?
The only thing a 4 team playoff has proven is that every year there are never 4 legitimate national championship contenders. The semifinals should theoretically be very competitive games, but they have been overwhelmingly blowouts.
Expanding it to 8 is expansion for expansion sake and has nothing to do with finding the "best" team anymore.
The only thing a 4 team playoff has proven is that every year there are never 4 legitimate national championship contenders. The semifinals should theoretically be very competitive games, but they have been overwhelmingly blowouts.
Expanding it to 8 is expansion for expansion sake and has nothing to do with finding the "best" team anymore.
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Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:30 pm to Rep520
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Most of all, college football games between top 8 teams are fun to watch
I'm sure LSU-Memphis would have been an instant classic
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:34 pm to PEPE
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The only thing a 4 team playoff has proven is that every year there are never 4 legitimate national championship contenders.
In 6 years, the 4th seed has won twice. Lower seeds are 5-7 in the semis, which isn't bad at all.
If anything, the CFP has actually produced more success by lower seeds and 4 seeds than it should have.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:35 pm to msutiger
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Not surprising that the conference that could realistically get three teams into a four team playoff aren't in favor of expansion
However pretty much every other conference in the country disagrees and will outvote them when the time comes.
the irony being expanding to 8 will guarantee 2-3 SEC team every year and more SEC vs SEC Title games.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:35 pm to H-Town Tiger
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What is gonna suck when they go to 8, which they will, is when teams that lose the CCG are left out in favor of teams that don't play in it, especially when the teams that go and lose made the CCG because they beat the team sitting at home.
Hasn't this already happened?
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:36 pm to RLDSC FAN
Whoever is playing against the “two highest ranked group of 5 teams” might as well have a bye.
They need to consolidate the P5 conferences into 4 conferences, and just take the winners of those conferences for the playoff.
The G5 should have their own playoff.
They need to consolidate the P5 conferences into 4 conferences, and just take the winners of those conferences for the playoff.
The G5 should have their own playoff.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:37 pm to PEPE
quote:Single elimination format guts the quest for finding the “best” team.
has nothing to do with finding the "best" team anymore
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:38 pm to Rep520
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In 6 years, the 4th seed has won twice.
1 of those was 2017 Alabama who was the 1 seed going into the last week of the season, losing then put their playoff chances in jeopardy. With 8, at 11-0 they could rest players and avoid having to play a another ranked opponent.
The other was Ohio State which in retrospect was the most talented team, but pro Bama/SEC bias blinded us to.
This post was edited on 4/8/20 at 6:40 pm
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:38 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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Hasn't this already happened?
yes in 2017 and it sucked.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:49 pm to RLDSC FAN
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ADs Overwhelmingly Favor Expanded College Football Playoff
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:51 pm to H-Town Tiger
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I'm sure LSU-Memphis would have been an instant classic
I'd have liked to see Ohio State/Oregon, Georgia/Oklahoma and Florida/Clemson.
If there wasn't a mandatory G5 rep, it would have been LSU/Baylor. I'm not a fan of a mandatory G5 team, for what that's worth.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:51 pm to fitz
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Single elimination format guts the quest for finding the “best” team.
brah, you can't have series in football
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:52 pm to RLDSC FAN
College ADs...
Posted on 4/8/20 at 7:04 pm to fitz
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Single elimination format guts the quest for finding the “best” team.
Football by its very nature will always have to be single elimination.
Which is why keeping the # small is so important if you actually want the best team to win the national championship most years.
You make the playoffs big enough, you're forcing the best team to face a lot of variance.
LSU might not lose to Memphis in the playoffs, but maybe Burrow gets seriously hurt in the game. Adding undeserving teams just punishes the actually worthy teams.
This post was edited on 4/8/20 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 4/8/20 at 7:27 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:No shite.
you can't have series in football
Posted on 4/8/20 at 7:53 pm to PEPE
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Which is why keeping the # small is so important if you actually want the best team to win the national championship most years.
You make the playoffs big enough, you're forcing the best team to face a lot of variance.
LSU might not lose to Memphis in the playoffs, but maybe Burrow gets seriously hurt in the game. Adding undeserving teams just punishes the actually worthy teams.
Stewart Mandel, of The Athletic, and others feel the exact opposite. They contend that we'll still see the usual suspects win the whole thing because they are the deepest and best prepared to play three tough games back-to-back.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 8:01 pm to H-Town Tiger
4 is perfect, IMO
Instead of worrying about playoff expansion, I wish they'd focus more on regulating the regular season schedules of power 5 teams.
Instead of worrying about playoff expansion, I wish they'd focus more on regulating the regular season schedules of power 5 teams.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 8:11 pm to RLDSC FAN
Well of course they are. Any blue blood top 20 type team basically folds once they don't make the playoffs.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 8:22 pm to Rep520
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In 6 years, the 4th seed has won twice. Lower seeds are 5-7 in the semis, which isn't bad at all.
That's not the point he was trying to make. He's saying that the semi-final games have been snoozers for the most part:
2014
#2 Oregon - 59
#3 FSU - 20
#4 Ohio State - 34
#1 Alabama - 28
2015
#1 Clemson - 37
#4 Oklahoma - 17
#2 Alabama - 38
#3 Michigan State - 0
2016
#1 Alabama - 24
#4 Washington - 7
#2 Clemson - 31
#3 Ohio State - 0
2017
#4 Alabama - 24
#1 Clemson - 6
#3 Georgia - 52
#2 Oklahoma - 49
2018
#1 Alabama - 45
#4 Oklahoma - 34
#2 Clemson - 30
#3 Notre Dame - 3
2019
#1 LSU - 63
#4 Oklahoma - 28
#3 Clemson - 29
#2 Ohio State - 23
You add in an additional four teams and you're going to see even shittier games played.
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