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re: College Football Nerds expresses what most of us are thinking and know to be true...
Posted on 12/31/23 at 11:32 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 12/31/23 at 11:32 pm to RollTide1987
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I'm sure it was fun for TCU fans watching their team get absolutely manhandled by 58 points in the CFP NCG last year
I'm sure they had a blast beating Michigan and making the championship game.
They pee'd down their leg in the championship game. It happens. But let's not sit here and assume that no team like a tcu wouldn't be able to do the unthinkable. Hell everyone thought Michigan would skull drag them.
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Posted on 12/31/23 at 11:45 pm to RollTide1987
College football was ruined for me when Auburn went 13-0 in the SEC and did not get to play in the NCAA title game.
Any system is better than that broken one.
Any system is better than that broken one.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 2:37 am to EZE Tiger Fan
Actually the BCS remained for 10 years longer than the year you stated lol
Posted on 1/1/24 at 5:40 am to SECdragonmaster
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NCAA title game.
Has never existed at the FBS level.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 7:31 am to POTUS2024
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Expanding the playoff makes all of the current issues worse.
Expanding the playoffs will only solve/mitigate the issue of bowl opt-outs.
It will absolutely destroy the importance of the regular season, however. At least with the current 4 team playoff the regular season still serves as de facto elimination rounds. That, and the luster of the regular season, dies with a 12 team playoff.
I could live with bowl opt-outs, but the biggest issue for me is the transfer portal. When and how did the 1 year sit out rule get abolished? Wasn't there only a waiver for grad transfers?
The transfer portal is akin to the 1 and done in college basketball; it absolutely ruins the sport.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 8:10 am to RollTide1987
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What used to be a sport that was a 4-month long celebration of all teams, with an isolated single game to determine a winner is now a diminished 4-months in exchange for 11 interesting games at the end of the year.
Yep. And the truth is those 11 games won’t but that compelling.
USC v Stanford 2007
West Virginia v Pitt 2007
Oklahoma State v Iowa State 2011
Florida Ole Miss 2008
These games were all seismic events when they happened. They are all irrelevant in the new rules.
The only thing the new format will bring are arguments over whether a 10-3 Wisconsin team or a 10-3 ole miss team belong in the playoffs.
Who gives a shite. You ruined a 4 month long, 120 team and college expo.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 8:23 am to chadr07
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Actually the BCS remained for 10 years longer than the year you stated lol
They immediately changed the formula after 2003. Completely overhauled it when USC couldn't accomplish what they needed to in the regular season (sound familiar?).
SOS wasn't as important for several years after that, until SOS became important again, then it wasn't again when another darling needed a free pass.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 8:34 am to RollTide1987
The 12 team playoff is the right move. They do need to fix the portal, however.
Players shouldn't be allowed to transfer until after the season is over. You will still have NFL opt-outs, but those don't really bother me as much.
Players shouldn't be allowed to transfer until after the season is over. You will still have NFL opt-outs, but those don't really bother me as much.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 8:38 am to SlowFlowPro
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Upsets are what these systems should be designed to avoid
The upsets would just clear a path for some power or be some power that has a down year and loses 3 games.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 8:41 am to RollTide1987
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push for massive change with zero concern for unintended consequences.
That’s been the most frustrating part over the last several years. Every time a bleeding heart starts going on and on about paying players, expanding playoffs, etc., there’s zero consideration for what the consequences could be and how all of that faux virtue could ruin the sport.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 8:43 am to RollTide1987
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From the very beginning the sport of college football was highly regional with a bigger emphasis on winning the conference and defeating your arch-rival.
College Football was never going to remain a regional sport. It got too popular. You have Ohio State fans who have never been to Ohio. Alabama fans who have never been to Alabama. Every Saturday, you can choose between 15 different games to watch on TV from around the country. This would not be possible if CFB was only a regional support.
I do agree that we should retain rivalries as much as possible, even if that means creating new ones.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 8:53 am to RollTide1987
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I'm sure it was fun for TCU fans watching their team get absolutely manhandled by 58 points in the CFP NCG last year.
I'm sure it was a lot of fun seeing their team beat Michigan in the playoffs to get to the championship. It sucks to lose, but I don't think TCU fans regret ever making the playoffs.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 9:07 am to 632627
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It will absolutely destroy the importance of the regular season, however. At least with the current 4 team playoff the regular season still serves as de facto elimination rounds. That, and the luster of the regular season, dies with a 12 team playoff.
Except that you could go undefeated and win your conference and not have a chance to win the national championship ala auburn 2004 and fsu this year.
The college football regular season is the most over hyped thing in sports. It's just an illusion and something the media created to boost their ratings.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 9:15 am to RollTide1987
Wrong. About 10 years ago the Marcus Lattimore injury happened. That was the start. Playoffs haven't ruined anything. The portal and NIL have.
I remember college ball in the 1980s and 90s and it was frustrating. Four one loss teams and they didn't play each other. They might play a 2 loss team in a major bowl and be awarded the national championship by media who didn't even watch merely because they were #1 going in to the game.
quote:This is beyond stupid. College football used to be 90% of the teams out of it 4 weeks into the season because 1 loss was a killer unless you were a media favorite. Now you will have dozens of teams and their fan bases who are still alive and playing for something well into weeks 9 and 10.
What used to be a sport that was a 4-month long celebration of all teams, with an isolated single game to determine a winner is now a diminished 4-months in exchange for 11 interesting games at the end of the year
I remember college ball in the 1980s and 90s and it was frustrating. Four one loss teams and they didn't play each other. They might play a 2 loss team in a major bowl and be awarded the national championship by media who didn't even watch merely because they were #1 going in to the game.
This post was edited on 1/1/24 at 9:18 am
Posted on 1/1/24 at 9:19 am to QJenk
quote:They've been to Walmart, close enough.
Alabama fans who have never been to Alabama.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 10:01 am to FairhopeTider
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Every time a bleeding heart starts going on and on about paying players, expanding playoffs, etc., there’s zero consideration for what the consequences could be and how all of that faux virtue could ruin the sport.
Where the frick do some of come up with this shite? I love how anyone who disagrees with anything now is a “bleeding heart”
NIL is name image and likeness. The push for that started because EA Sports college games used players “name image and likeness” without paying them. The NFL mad NBA players were paid. Occasionally one wouldn’t agree and he wouldn’t be in the Madden or NBA video game. Why shouldn’t Ed O Bannon get compensation for his NIL? Even if it was paid after his college career was over?
Also why do people always blame the players for NIL but don’t criticize the coaches who get $10M a year or $78M to not coach? Coaches leave teams before the bowls and no one, except the team he left cares or says that’s “ruining” the sport.
This post was edited on 1/1/24 at 10:17 am
Posted on 1/1/24 at 10:05 am to Ssubba
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Well a 12 team playoff will fix it
You naive frick.
Casual
Posted on 1/1/24 at 10:56 am to RollTide1987
BCS National Championship Game was the best system
Posted on 1/1/24 at 11:15 am to Ssubba
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This post was edited on 1/1/24 at 11:37 am
Posted on 1/1/24 at 11:29 am to St Augustine
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Well a 12 team playoff will fix it.
I'd argue that the non playoff games will become even less meaningful almost like the NIT
What is happening is all non-playoff bowls have become like the NIT. And there is no reason at all why regular season games, for teams not making the playoff, won’t also start to feel like NIT.
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