re: Ryan Day: tOSU will no longer schedule P4s OOC unless Big 10 is guaranteed 4 playoff spots

Well let’s be honest here…this is all about content creation, they give 0 fricks about the on field product. The networks have been paying out the arse for these rights and don’t care about watering down the product, as long as it’s on, draws a good enough number, and they can sell ads because it’s one of the few things left that people still watch live. Expand the playoffs…more content, more ads..

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ETA: go back to the BCS. Top 2 teams. One game. That era of college football was infinitely better and more enjoyable.

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Agreed. I liked it better when a single loss could potentially kill your season. Making the championship game was a very difficult thing to do and most fanbases didn't expect it.

Now you have about 20 fanbases who all think their team should be in the playoffs most years and if they don't make it they complain.

That ain't gonna happen Ryan, what they need to do is incentivize playing tougher schedules.

NOBODY wants to see their team or any team play 4 directional rent-a-win schools. I can't stand having to go watch us play Southeastern or Grambling, the interest level is near zero for me.

If you're paying attention, Sankey is saying the SEC won't go to 9 conference games unless the playoff format agrees to using a certain SOS metric to determine teams, which would favor SEC teams and get the conference 4-5 spots each year.

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Tell me about all these small programs who played for national titles in the 2 team format.

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Why are we catering to small programs that don’t have a shot in any format?

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Tell me about all these small programs who played for national titles in the 2 team format.

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I'm saying it was more plausible for it to happen in the old format, not that it was a common occurrence. Boise came close a couple of times, was preseason top 5 twice but Brotzman missed kicks to lose games both years. I brought it up because it was a big gripe and reason for expansion, particularly more auto bids than there are power conferences, guaranteeing a mid major makes it every year, that smaller schools didn't have a chance to compete for a national title. What I'm saying is back then yeah it took some luck in the rest of the field, combined with an undefeated season, and probably good seasons leading up to it to be highly ranked in the preseason, to be selected for the game. But if they got there then all they have to do is win 1 game, not 4. In terms of actually WINNING a national title, the old format gave them a better chance. I say better chance, I don't say good chance.

Even the 4 team playoff I didn't really have much of a problem with, and Cincinnati made one of those out of the AAC, they would have had to win 2 games though and obviously couldn't win the first one. That format was probably the best chance teams like that had honestly. As it stands now though, they have to go through 4 teams, not just 1 or 2 and I don't see that ever happening. Now instead of ending the season winning a big bowl game like TCU in the Rose Bowl or Boise in the Fiesta or Utah in the Sugar they get to unceremoniously get eliminated in the playoffs.

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Your pithy comment aside, this debate is bigger than one program. For whatever reason you are incapable of seeing the forest through the trees.

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I can’t see the forest for the trees? I mentioned Bama and OM because they were the 2 highest ranked SEC teams that did not make it. And they didn’t make it because both lost games to team ls they had no business losing to. Sorry UGA debunks the whole “don’t play a tough schedule” narrative

The problem you are missing is SMU and the Conference Championship Games. yes they had a garbage schedule and no they were “better” than Bama but if you keep them out after losing a CCG then you really hurt the CCG. The SECCG is a cash cow and Sankey does not want to lose it but really the CCG should go. You are far better off being like tOSU, don’t have to play CCG, get a home playoff. Texas and PSU lost the CCG and got home playoff games which the winners Oregon and UGA did not and better 2nd round match ups

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No. 90% of teams were out of the running by week 5.

And it was glorious.

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Not really. It wasn't even 90% done by week 5. It was 90% were out before a game was ever played. A 13-0 Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, or Kentucky would NEVER jump a 13-0 Ohio State and 13-0 Notre Dame fin tady's landscape.

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1984 BYU will never happen in this format

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1984 BYU only happened b/c they went 53-9 in the 5 years before 1984 and started the year beating preseason #3 Pitt vaulting them up the polls. They also needed every single other school to have a regular season loss. BTW Pitt went on to finish 3-7-1 and had their first losing season since 1972.

No team worth a shite was willing to even play BYU in their bowl that year and they won the AP title beating a 6-6 Michigan in the Holiday Bowl. That's not glorious at all. This board would be apocalyptic if a team whose best win came over a 8-4 Air Force was voted champs over an 11-1 #2 Washington whose only loss was to 9-3 USC on the road and beat 9-2-1 OU by double digits in the Orange Bowl.

People blame NIL, but greed from commissioners and tv execs are what really fricked over the sport. The SEC should have never invited Texas and OU

Now you’ve got the SEC and B1G trying to make the playoffs an invitational just so 1 fricking team doesn’t feel screwed over. (Jalen Milroe walking into Happy Valley in December would have made me an alcoholic)