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re: How the 24 team playoff happened per The Athletic
Posted on 11/11/26 at 11:36 am to Tiger Prawn
Posted on 11/11/26 at 11:36 am to Tiger Prawn
What I never hear from those of you who say “it waters down the regular season” is you never address the 80% of teams who seasons are watered down by the end of September when they have had 2 or 3 losses.
You guys are so myopic in only viewing the sport thru the lens of 25 teams. There are over 130 D1 teams. The sport is for all of them not just a handful of schools. For every fan that decides watching a LSU/Bama game isn’t worth it because both will make the playoffs you will have other fans watching SMU/Wake this weekend as a potential playoff game. But you guys dismiss those people and those games because you only care about your little world. You also dismissed Indiana until they whipped your butt.
You guys are so myopic in only viewing the sport thru the lens of 25 teams. There are over 130 D1 teams. The sport is for all of them not just a handful of schools. For every fan that decides watching a LSU/Bama game isn’t worth it because both will make the playoffs you will have other fans watching SMU/Wake this weekend as a potential playoff game. But you guys dismiss those people and those games because you only care about your little world. You also dismissed Indiana until they whipped your butt.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 11:37 am to castorinho
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but 71% of those who didn't want expansion said they'd watch anyway.
damn, that's us.
pretty much, we bitch about it but are going to watch
in the end...I may not like it but from the start going past 4 already devalued the reg season so I am not going to complain about more good games
now i felt like with FCS...16 was the correct amount... I feel that away about FBS too if they were going to expand
Posted on 11/11/26 at 11:39 am to RunningJacket
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What I never hear from those of you who say “it waters down the regular season” is you never address the 80% of teams who seasons are watered down by the end of September when they have had 2 or 3 losses.
You guys are so myopic in only viewing the sport thru the lens of 25 teams. There are over 130 D1 teams. The sport is for all of them not just a handful of schools. For every fan that decides watching a LSU/Bama game isn’t worth it because both will make the playoffs you will have other fans watching SMU/Wake this weekend as a potential playoff game. But you guys dismiss those people and those games because you only care about your little world. You also dismissed Indiana until they whipped your butt.
cool....then the mid majors G6 teams need to run their own playoff.
should be p4- 16 team
G6-16 team
fcs-16 team
but whatever
as far as the rest....history said indiana sucked...they have gotten good but they were literally the worst p4 team in the country based on history until Cig got there and NIL opened up
Posted on 11/11/26 at 12:54 pm to lsu777
777,
I hear you but if we are using opinions to create a playoff then it’s going to be a joke, If you want the regular season to matter then it should matter. Why is Wake with 1 loss behind multiple teams with more losses - if the regular season matters? Of course, then people will use their opinion to say those teams have a better schedule so they shouldn’t be punished for losses. To that I say either the regular season matters or it doesn’t. They said that about Miami and Miami went 3-1 against the SEC and BIG.
The only answer is expansion and auto bids to conferences. People are now paying attention to the bias so basing spots on rankings will be coming to an end soon (for college football that’s like 20 years). Indiana just dropped 5 spots I think after a bye. Teams who actually lost didn’t drop that far. The more the committee alienates the rest of the country to prop up the SEC the more reaction the SEC wil get. You guys were already forced to accept a 9th game and a 24 team playoff because the power has shifted. Threatening to leave and form your own thing will leave you on an island,
I hear you but if we are using opinions to create a playoff then it’s going to be a joke, If you want the regular season to matter then it should matter. Why is Wake with 1 loss behind multiple teams with more losses - if the regular season matters? Of course, then people will use their opinion to say those teams have a better schedule so they shouldn’t be punished for losses. To that I say either the regular season matters or it doesn’t. They said that about Miami and Miami went 3-1 against the SEC and BIG.
The only answer is expansion and auto bids to conferences. People are now paying attention to the bias so basing spots on rankings will be coming to an end soon (for college football that’s like 20 years). Indiana just dropped 5 spots I think after a bye. Teams who actually lost didn’t drop that far. The more the committee alienates the rest of the country to prop up the SEC the more reaction the SEC wil get. You guys were already forced to accept a 9th game and a 24 team playoff because the power has shifted. Threatening to leave and form your own thing will leave you on an island,
Posted on 11/11/26 at 1:18 pm to Deadmanshand
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Hard to believe, unless they are concerned that people will not tune in for the bullshite blowouts of teams in the bottom half of seedings.
Plus games that would be put on secondary networks during the regular season. A 24 team bracket as the CFP rankings stand now would include first round matchups of UK/Mizzou and Indiana/Boise St
Those are SEC Network and Big 10 Network alt channel matchups.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 2:58 pm to RunningJacket
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777,
I hear you but if we are using opinions to create a playoff then it’s going to be a joke, If you want the regular season to matter then it should matter. Why is Wake with 1 loss behind multiple teams with more losses - if the regular season matters?
who have they beaten dude
strength of schedule has to matter most
would wake have 1 loss if they played bama schedule or even LSUs?
likely not
if you are not going to reward SOS then everyone will just do like Indiana and play nobody really all year and try and stay healthy. they dropped because their one loss lost again
at some point who you play has to matter.
and miami last year...everyone said their lines were great.
and the power hasnt shifted, our commish is a pussy as bitch. we could leave tomorrow and form our own thing, dropping our weak links and grab your traditional strong teams and b1g strong teams and form a super league and leave the likes of GT and WF out in the cold if we wanted
the regular season should matter...but you should get to beat up on a bunch of weak arse teams
just like the SEC should get credit for being 10-2 against the other P4 conferences and 5-0 against the ACC. i mean one of the losses was our worst team against the B12 best. other was OU doing OU things where their offense decides not to get off the bus
but look now that the B1g and SEC have a challenge, we can do the same with the ACC and B12 for all I care. I promise...the SEC is going to win 65%-80% of those games if not more.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 6:16 pm to Diseasefreeforall
If ESPN was against, which I doubt, it’s because the regular season now matters a whole lot less and they broadcast a shitload of those.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 6:38 pm to RunningJacket
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For every fan that decides watching a LSU/Bama game isn’t worth it because both will make the playoffs you will have other fans watching SMU/Wake this weekend as a potential playoff game
This is not even remotely true
No one is going to give a shite about SMU/Wake now or next season.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 7:13 pm to lsu777
Sorry man. I thought you were a reasonable poster. Clearly you drink the SEC kool aid that your the greatest even though your teams have underperformed their rankings the last 3 years in a row.
So go ahead and threaten to leave and act like 4 year olds by calling your commish names. He clearly knows your position isn’t nearly as strong as you believe. And the BIG isn’t nearly as dumb to threaten other leagues and break away. That’s just SEC fans who still believe they wield the power. Good luck watching your over ranked teams lose in the playoffs once again.
So go ahead and threaten to leave and act like 4 year olds by calling your commish names. He clearly knows your position isn’t nearly as strong as you believe. And the BIG isn’t nearly as dumb to threaten other leagues and break away. That’s just SEC fans who still believe they wield the power. Good luck watching your over ranked teams lose in the playoffs once again.
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