re: Just to show you how insane the CFP format is..

Players have been sitting out of bowl games since 2015 when Jaylon with got his leg snapped.

I'm talking about way before 2015.

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Under the table, with hundred dollar handshakes, and no paper trail to speak of (SMU excluded). If you think the illicit payments being given to players back then are anything like the salaries they are getting now then there is just no arguing with you.

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And even then it wasnt enforced equally. Auburn got probation when any other school broke the rules. The whole thing has always been a corrupt. Kind of glad its ruined

I like how 1 loss dosent completely tank your season anymore. And 2 makes it impossible to get to the championship. Thats the best thing about the new playoff. It definitely dosent need to be expanded though, that’s just to many games for moneys sake. Nobody actually thinks a 12-16 seed is going to make a run to the championship. You’re just putting them in for money and to appease the ones bitching why they barely missed the playoff

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Almost as bad as when it was only 2 teams and a division runner up got in over other conferences’ champs

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Shows how we just make it up as we go along, every couple of years gotta change things up to "fix" things or get a "true champion"

The true champion are the puppet-masters who have us by the strings behind their money-grubbing schemes ala ESPN

Everything, everything done in CFB from Networks, Universities, CEOs, Presidents, the players, the coaches, etc. is all done only for money. The sport is so transparent now, no false illusions, rudderless, openly morally bankrupt, shallow and so distant from what Collegiate ought to be.

I prefer the MNC (and it still is the MNC, because we haven't "fixed" anything) because it was open for debate, untethered by $Networks, voted on by a simple Poll(s) after ALL the Bowl games, no hand-wringing over TV ratings or manufacturing results by computers or committees. Just random CFB sportwriters giving their barroom opinion; we survived and it was more interesting.

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Fickell to Notre Dame 2021

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You're not a serious poster

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Fickell was going to ND in 2021 but ND wouldn't wait until after the playoffs. That was the coaching carousel drama.

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Which playoff team's coach left in 2021?

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There used to be loyalty to your university and to your state. The players were legitimate amateur athletes who played for the love of the game and for the love of their state/university.

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This is some serious rose-colored glasses. Teams have been buying players for a seriously long time. Do you seriously believe SMU's Pony Express days were a one-off that ended in the 80s with them?

If you want to watch players who play solely for the love of the game, you should become a fan of FCS and especially D2 football. Because that hasn't been a thing in P5 FBS football for a long time. These guys are playing with the goal of going to the NFL. Why do you think so many guys have always dipped after 3 years? It's because they want to get paid. Players have always wanted to get paid, that's not a recent development.

Lastly, I don't think you realize that the only reason players were playing all 3-5 years at a university was because they essentially had no choice. Plenty of guys would have loved to transfer elsewhere if they had the choice. You're a Bama fan. I'm sure you know while there are former players who always come back, publicly support the program, etc. There's other players who have not worn the colors, haven't returned to Tuscaloosa a single time, nor have they said a single Roll Tide since the day they graduated/left for the league.
Alot of these guys never truly loved the state or their university, it was a necessary stepping stone to get them where they wanted to go next.

I think they should have capped the expansion to 8 teams. Not being a power of 2 and allowing byes is just stupid.