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re: List of things that would kill college football
Posted on 5/8/26 at 5:28 pm to TexasTiger08
Posted on 5/8/26 at 5:28 pm to TexasTiger08
80% of posters are just disgruntled old men. My early 20’s kids and all their friends love the playoffs and expanded ones. They grew up asking questions in the BCS era like - “dad, so your saying in the past that the news men just voted on who they thought was the best team and they actually gave them a trophy?”
I’d answer - yes. Then they’d ask, “so what happened if 2 teams won all their games or if 4 teams finished with 1 loss”. And I’d answer, well son, sometimes they just gave out 2 trophies and we’d have 2 champs, or some years they would just pick their local team which means the trophy went to the team with the most news men.
And we wonder why the public LOVES the new playoff system even while you dinosaurs want to go back to letting the Akron Beacon pick ND or Ohio St every year.
I’d answer - yes. Then they’d ask, “so what happened if 2 teams won all their games or if 4 teams finished with 1 loss”. And I’d answer, well son, sometimes they just gave out 2 trophies and we’d have 2 champs, or some years they would just pick their local team which means the trophy went to the team with the most news men.
And we wonder why the public LOVES the new playoff system even while you dinosaurs want to go back to letting the Akron Beacon pick ND or Ohio St every year.
This post was edited on 5/8/26 at 5:30 pm
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Posted on 5/8/26 at 5:36 pm to choupiquesushi
quote:ball boy for who?
as a 7 year old ball boy and first year football player in 1972... the early days of integration made for some interesting times.
i bet those are some interesting stories
Posted on 5/8/26 at 5:50 pm to bstaceyau19
24 team playoff isn’t going to kill college football. It’s just turning CFB into NFL lite.
CFB was different because of the rivalries and how every single game was important if you were chasing a championship. Now you can lose 4 times and still make the playoffs. Realistically, most teams will only play 5, maybe 6 quality opponents in the regular season at most. You can go 1-4 or 2-4 in those games and still get in the playoffs just by beating up on teams from G5, FCS, and the bottom feeders of your conference.
Regular season will just lose a lot of its luster since each game won’t be nearly as meaningful anymore
CFB was different because of the rivalries and how every single game was important if you were chasing a championship. Now you can lose 4 times and still make the playoffs. Realistically, most teams will only play 5, maybe 6 quality opponents in the regular season at most. You can go 1-4 or 2-4 in those games and still get in the playoffs just by beating up on teams from G5, FCS, and the bottom feeders of your conference.
Regular season will just lose a lot of its luster since each game won’t be nearly as meaningful anymore
Posted on 5/8/26 at 5:52 pm to RunningJacket
There was a perfect playoff solution to that while not losing the importance of every regular season game. 8 team playoff with 5 auto bids for conference champs and 3 at-large bids.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 6:06 pm to Tiger Prawn
But the thought that an expanded playoff will kill the regular season is just a myth. Last year Ohio St played Texas in a worthless regular season game. It wasn’t a conference game. It was a scrimmage, yet it was sold out.
Bama and UGA played in a sold out conference championship game that meant nothing because both teams were in the playoffs.
Anyone who says the regular season is less meaningful are just eaten up by propaganda. It has been proved to be wrong. Fans are attending in crazy numbers.
What you are really mad about is that teams aren’t eliminated by a loss or two. Boo hoo.
Bama and UGA played in a sold out conference championship game that meant nothing because both teams were in the playoffs.
Anyone who says the regular season is less meaningful are just eaten up by propaganda. It has been proved to be wrong. Fans are attending in crazy numbers.
What you are really mad about is that teams aren’t eliminated by a loss or two. Boo hoo.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 6:35 pm to RunningJacket
quote:Alabama could lose to UGA, Tenn, A&M, and LSU and still make a 24 team playoff at 8-4. Their best win in that scenario would probably be either Florida State or an SEC team that finished in the bottom half of the conference. Why is that playoff worthy? At least with a smaller playoff field, they’d have to beat at least 2 of the top 4 games on their schedule to get in.
What you are really mad about is that teams aren’t eliminated by a loss or two. Boo hoo.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 6:41 pm to RunningJacket
quote:
But the thought that an expanded playoff will kill the regular season is just a myth. Last year Ohio St played Texas in a worthless regular season game. It wasn’t a conference game. It was a scrimmage, yet it was sold out.
Texas didn't make the playoff last season because of that loss, in a 24 team playoff that loss wouldn't have ended their playoff hopes
Posted on 5/8/26 at 6:43 pm to thejuiceisloose
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Texas didn't make the playoff last season because
They lost to a horrible Fla team
Posted on 5/8/26 at 6:46 pm to bstaceyau19
The problem is the CFP Committee will never allow themselves to be phased out. They are useless
BCS Formula to determine the rankings would solve it all
BCS Formula to determine the rankings would solve it all
Posted on 5/8/26 at 6:46 pm to Obi-Wan Tiger
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They lost to a horrible Fla team
True they finished the regular season at 13, meaning that loss as well wouldn't matter if they make the playoff or not
Posted on 5/8/26 at 6:54 pm to thejuiceisloose
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True they finished the regular season at 13, meaning that loss as well wouldn't matter if they make the playoff or not
Right but just saying that that OSU game (the tossup game) gets focused on instead of the game they absolutely should have won as far as why they missed the playoffs.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 6:56 pm to thejuiceisloose
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meaning that loss as well wouldn't matter if they make the playoff or not
Right, but just saying that the game they lost to OSU (the tossup game) gets focused on more than the game they absolutely should have won as to the reason why they missed the playoffs.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 7:24 pm to RunningJacket
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80% of posters are just disgruntled old men.
Some are, but I think it's a lot of 20 and early 30 somethings who grew up with the BCS. They know nothing of the Bowl Coalition, or even how bowls were determined before that. The Southwest Conference is foreign to them. They think big change is sign of death when in reality, college football has been changing constantly since they invented the wishbone in the late 60s.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 7:28 pm to Obi-Wan Tiger
Why should a loss keep a team from the playoffs, No other sport operates that way. Why are you D1 football fans so worried about teams with losses making a playoff?
My only guess is because you watched the corrupt past where we were all force fed propaganda by the bowl cartels and your brain simply accept the better system.
Here’s is what you need to understand - the regular season is simply a time to get better before the playoffs - just like every other sport. The regular season is not life and death because hero’s and champions are made in the playoffs.
My only guess is because you watched the corrupt past where we were all force fed propaganda by the bowl cartels and your brain simply accept the better system.
Here’s is what you need to understand - the regular season is simply a time to get better before the playoffs - just like every other sport. The regular season is not life and death because hero’s and champions are made in the playoffs.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 9:28 pm to RunningJacket
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Here’s is what you need to understand - the regular season is simply a time to get better before the playoffs - just like every other sport.
Yeah man…NBA and MLB regular season really deliver the excitement on a nightly basis. It’s almost like there’s a balance between newspaper writers picking champs and a 24-team playoff. That existed with the BCS and even the 4-team playoff.
Games are no longer “must-see.”
Posted on 5/8/26 at 9:45 pm to TexasTiger08
Do people not pay big ticket prices to go to regular season MLB and NBA games? Of course they do. I went to a Braves game last week and I dropped about $240 for 4 tix and parking. And I knew going in the game was essentially meaningless.
For some unknown stupidity, a lot of college fans somehow believe their regular is more important than other sports. It’s not. The regular season is nothing but a 3 month period to get ready for the playoffs. And fans will still pack the stadiums like we saw last year.
I’ll gladly say I’m wrong when you can point to me regular season games that are not attended. When Bama or UGA or Tenn or Clemson start drawing 30K then we can talk.
And did you see the other thread about “ most loyal fanbase” and how fans wear it as a moniker of pride to pack a stadium for a bad team.
With a bigger playoff you’ll have higher attendance for teams fighting for spots. If anything, games of the future that pit two 7-2 teams will have larger attendance because that game will actually matter now. And fans for 2 undefeated teams that meet late in the season will still show up even though both are comfortably in the playoffs because that is what has already happened. If I were a UGA or Bama fan there is no way I’d go to a regular season. I’d save my money and time for the playoffs but these two fanbases just live to spend money.
For some unknown stupidity, a lot of college fans somehow believe their regular is more important than other sports. It’s not. The regular season is nothing but a 3 month period to get ready for the playoffs. And fans will still pack the stadiums like we saw last year.
I’ll gladly say I’m wrong when you can point to me regular season games that are not attended. When Bama or UGA or Tenn or Clemson start drawing 30K then we can talk.
And did you see the other thread about “ most loyal fanbase” and how fans wear it as a moniker of pride to pack a stadium for a bad team.
With a bigger playoff you’ll have higher attendance for teams fighting for spots. If anything, games of the future that pit two 7-2 teams will have larger attendance because that game will actually matter now. And fans for 2 undefeated teams that meet late in the season will still show up even though both are comfortably in the playoffs because that is what has already happened. If I were a UGA or Bama fan there is no way I’d go to a regular season. I’d save my money and time for the playoffs but these two fanbases just live to spend money.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 9:54 pm to bstaceyau19
Rivalries are what makes college football great and those greedy ADs killed a lot of them or paused them like the Backyard Brawl, Bedlam, Lonestar Rivalry, etc.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 10:03 pm to bstaceyau19
More and more shitty ads.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 10:12 pm to CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
I played at South Dakota and it's an FCS school with a 24 team playoff. The regular season has not suffered at all. Big rival games are still big rival games. Conference games are still huge. The end of the season and the playoff push, either to get in, or for positioning and home field games are great.
More teams stay involved, more late season games matter. It will be a change for FBS, butore late season games mattering for more teams keeps more fan engaged us a good thing.
It also spreads the talent out as players go where they can get PT because the playoffs are achievable for more schools.
Like Willie says, (he) it ain't wrong, (he's) it's just different...
More teams stay involved, more late season games matter. It will be a change for FBS, butore late season games mattering for more teams keeps more fan engaged us a good thing.
It also spreads the talent out as players go where they can get PT because the playoffs are achievable for more schools.
Like Willie says, (he) it ain't wrong, (he's) it's just different...
Posted on 5/8/26 at 11:01 pm to SoDakHawk
You hit the nail,on the head. But too many SEC fans got spoiled with auto bids to a 2 team BCS or 4 teamer. And most of them used the “SEC” chant to dic!ride Bama or UGA while their crappy team played in the Weedeater bowl. It’s just weird. I’m a GT guy and was darn happy Indiana beat Miami because I don’t root for a conference, I root for my team.
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